In the prayer of Angelus this SundayPope Leo XIV meditated on the Gospel of St. Luke (14,1.7-14) and urged the faithful to free themselves from vanity and competence, to let Christ be the one who educates in humility and freedom.
The Pontiff warned that in our time it is repeated what Jesus observed in the house of the Pharisees: “He had noticed a career to occupy the first places. This also happens today, not so much in the family, but on the occasions when it matters ‘to be noticed.’ Then, being together, becomes a competition.”
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Faced with this temptation, Leo XIV called to contemplate life from the view of Christ: “It is very important to see us through his gaze, rethink how we often reduce life to a competition, how we lose the composure in order to obtain some recognition, how we compare ourselves uselessly with each other.”
The Pope recalled that the path Jesus proposes is humility:
“The Gospel uses the word ‘humility’ to describe the full form of freedom (cf. Lc 14,11). Humility, in effect, is to be free of oneself.”
Who seeks to enhance, pointed out, actually lives locked in itself: “Whoever enhances, in general, seems to have not found anything more interesting than himself and, deep down, he has little certainty itself.” On the other hand, “who has understood that it is very valuable in the eyes of God, who feels deeply a son or daughter of God, has greater things than to glor and have a dignity that shines alone.”
The Holy Father stressed that the Eucharist is the place where Christ himself teaches us:
“Sitting together around the Eucharistic table, on the day of the Lord, also means to us to give Jesus the word. He makes our guest and can describe how he sees us”
“Let us ask today that the Church is for all a workshop of humility, that is, that house in which you are always welcome, where the positions do not conquer, where Jesus can still take the floor and educate us in his humility and his freedom,” he added.
Finally, Leo XIV entrusted the faithful to the Virgin Mary: “Mary, whom we now invoke, is truly the mother of this house.”
Diego López Marina
I was born in 1991. I have a degree in Communication Sciences. Since 2015 I work as a digital journalist. I started my career in the newspaper El Comercio in Peru. In 2016, I began as editor in ACI Press and I perform as a web editor since 2018. From 2024, I write the Newsletter for Social Media. I specialize in Catholic news focused on the defense of life and family, international politics, technology, popular culture and the Vatican.