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Pope at Audience: ‘Lovingly accept everything God sends us’

December 29, 2022
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Pope at Audience: ‘Lovingly accept everything God sends us’

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By Devin Watkins

Dec 29 2022

Pope Francis reflects on the birth of Christ at the weekly General Audience, and encourages us to welcome everything that God sends us, since He loves us and desires what is best for us.

As the Church celebrates the Octave—eight days—of Christmas, Pope Francis focused his catechesis at the Wednesday General Audience on the mystery of Christ’s birth.

He drew inspiration from St. Francis de Sales on the 400th anniversary of the death of the Doctor of the Church.

The Pope also announced that he is publishing an Apostolic Letter on Wednesday dedicated to the French-born Saint and entitled Totum amoris est (“Everything Pertains to Love”).

Humble birth

In his catechesis, the Pope reflected on Jesus’ humble birth in a stable in Bethlehem, where His mother Mary laid Him in a manger, basically a trough out of which animals eat.

He said the Evangelist Luke stresses this fact, meaning it is a sign for all humanity.

“Jesus is the Son of God who saves us by becoming man, stripping Himself of His glory and humbling Himself.”

God’s closeness

Pope Francis noted that this detail fully reveals God’s “closeness, compassion, and tenderness”.

God, he said, seeks to draw us to Himself with love and tenderness, rather than “impose His truth and justice upon us.”

Love is the key to the way God wishes to attract us, continued the Pope.

“God’s love is not a possessive and selfish love, as unfortunately human love so often is. His love is pure gift, pure grace. It is all and only for us, for our good.”

Sweetness and harshness

Another notable aspect of the manger, said Pope Francis, is “poverty, understood as the renunciation of all worldly vanity.”

Referring to St. Francis de Sales, he noted that the manger teaches us “the perfect renunciation of all goods”, since such a rough baby bed combines both “tenderness and austerity, love and sorrow, sweetness and harshness”.

God’s love is not sickly sweet, as the manger poignantly shows, noted Pope Francis.

“Christmas is joy and celebration, certainly, but in simplicity and austerity.”

Welcoming everything in love

In conclusion, Pope Francis said Christ’s birth in such simple surroundings invites each of us to welcome both the pleasant and less-than-pleasant things that God sends us.

We should seek, he said, to “desire nothing and reject nothing, to accept everything that God sends us” and to do so “always and only out of love, because God loves us and only ever wants our good.” – Vatican News

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