“Many are afraid of the future and burdened by social situations”
The Pope asks God for the courage to live these times still marked by the Covid pandemic. “The new year – Francis said at the Angelus – begins with God who, in the arms of his mother and lying in a manger, encourages us with tenderness. We need this encouragement. We still live in uncertain and difficult times due to the pandemic. they are frightened by the future and burdened by social situations, personal problems, the dangers that come from the ecological crisis, injustices and planetary economic imbalances “.
The Pontiff then returned to focus on migrants: “Looking at Mary with her Son in her arms, I think of young mothers and their children fleeing from wars and famines or waiting in refugee camps, there are many “.
Pope: God at your fingertips, he was born not to exclude anyone – “God is near, within reach”, he is born not with the power of someone who wants to be feared, “he does not judge us from the top of a throne, but looks at us from below as a brother, indeed, as a son”, he comes “small and needy so that no one should be ashamed of himself”. The God-child is born in order not to exclude anyone. To make us all become brothers and sisters. “Thus Pope Francis before the Angelus.
“Let’s imagine Mary who – said the Pontiff -, as a tender and caring mother, has just placed Jesus in the manger. In that placement we can see a gift made to us: Our Lady does not keep her Son for herself, but presents him to us; she not only hugs him in her arms, but lays him down to invite us to look at him, welcome him and adore him. This is Mary’s motherhood: the Son who was born offers him to all of us “. “And in placing it in front of our eyes, without saying a word, it gives us a wonderful message: God is near, within reach”.
“He does not come with the power of those who want to be feared – he underlined -, but with the fragility of those who ask to be loved; he does not judge us from the top of a throne, but looks at us from below as a brother, indeed, as a son. . He is born small and needy so that no one should be ashamed of himself anymore: just when we experience our weakness and frailty, we can feel God even closer, because he presented himself to us like this, weak and fragile. . It is the God-child who is born in order not to exclude anyone. To make us all brothers and sisters “.
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