Pope Francis: Faith helps us face pain without falling into bitterness or despair

In the Angelus text prepared for this Sunday, Pope Francis stressed that faith helps to face pain without falling into bitterness or despair.

The Holy Father pointed out that Jesus, helpless and humiliated walks “towards the cross with the feelings and heart of a child grabbed his father’s neck, fragile in the flesh, but strong in the abandonment confident, even to fall asleep, in death, in his arms.”

For the pontiff, these are feelings that the liturgy calls us to contemplate “and do our.”

“We all have pain, physical or moral, and faith helps us not to give in despair, not to close in bitterness, but to face them feeling surrounded, like Jesus, for the providential and merciful hug of the Father,” he said below.

Pope Francis thanked the faithful for prayers for their health, stressing that at this moment of physical weakness “help me even further feel the closeness, compassion and tenderness of God.”

“I also pray for you and I ask you to entrust all those who suffer, especially those affected by war, poverty or natural disasters,” he said.

In particular, he asked that God “welcome the victims of the collapse of a place in Santo Domingo, and hold his relatives.”

He also recalled that April 15 will be “the second sad anniversary of the beginning of the conflict in Sudan, with thousands of dead and millions of forced families to leave their homes.”

“The suffering of children, women and vulnerable people shout to heaven and implore that we act. I renew my call to the parties involved to put an end to violence and undertake paths of dialogue and the international community, so that the population does not lack the essential aid,” the Holy Father urged.

Finally, he asked to remember Lebanon, “where a tragic civil war began fifty years ago: that with the help of God I can live in peace and prosperity,” he concluded.