Liu fourteenth: “God loves us and calls us to answer faith.”

Patricia y Netroza-Ciudad Del Vaticano

This afternoon, Pope Liu fourteen visited the tomb of San Pablo, in the external San Pablo Pablo. In his sermon, he recalled the biblical reading, the speech of St. Paul to the Christians of Rome, a major work of the new era, as he said, about three basic issues: grace, faith and justice. In the context of the beginning of the new Pontificate, the Pope called for thinking about this letter Paulino rich in the spiritual and theologian.

St. Paul begins his message with the realization that he received from God the blessing of the call (see RM 1,5). This means, the Pope said that his profession and mission as a messenger are not the result of personal benefits, but rather a divine initiative that precedes him. Although he joined the church, Paul was achieved by God’s merciful love, which he chose for a new life. This free call recalls the words of St. Augustine, who emphasized that we cannot love God if we do not love before him. In this line, it was emphasized that every profession was born from the love of God, compared to the mother of the mother who nurtures her son when she is still unable to defend himself.

Responding to God’s call with faith and freedom

But Grace does not eliminate freedom, continued his sermon, in the same verse (RM 1,5). Saint Paul also mentions obedience to faith, an expression that surrounds a deep existential truth. In the meeting with Christ Kamino de Damascus (see 9,1-30), Paul received the revelation he did not force him, but he invited him to a free decision.

Liu fourteenth said that faith, in this sense, is not a magic imposition, but it is a free and confident response to the initiative of God’s love. It involves fighting, effort and personal adhesion. Therefore, salvation does not happen automatically, by magic, but it is the result of “the mystery of grace and faith, and the love of God that precedes us, and adhesion is confident and free from man.

Saul also responds to the call of the Lord

The Holy Father thanked the Lord, the invitation that turns the life of Saul and asked to also know how to respond in the same way to his prayers, and the love witnessed, “Hearts have been thrown into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, which was given to us.”RM 5,5).

Saint Benito message

The ink recalled that the external San Pablo Pablo has entrusted centuries to care for the Benedictine community. Thus, he said, remember, the central message of Sant Benito, regarding love as a driving force for Christian life and the announcement of the Bible. In his rule, Liu XIV, Saint Benito, said continuously to practice fraternal charity within Sinopium (monastic society) and showing hospitality to all, the basic aspects of the Christian life that reflects the gospel that lived in daily life.

God loves us

The Pope concluded his sermon while evoking the words that, after more than a thousand years, the Pope Benedict XII, directed the young man:

This, he finally said the Pope, the root, the simple and the unique of every task, even for him, as the caliph of Pedro and the heir of the Apostolic Paul heat. He asked the Lord to give him the blessing to respond honestly to his call.