Pope Francis highlighted that “Christ transformed our pain by making it his own until the end: inhabiting it, suffering it and offering it as a gift of love.”
“He did not give easy answers to our ‘whys’, but on the cross he made our big ‘whys’ his own,” he recalled.
For Pope Francis, “whoever assimilates the Holy Scripture purifies the religious imagination of wrong attitudes, learning to follow the path indicated by Jesus: to touch human suffering with his hand, with humility, meekness, serenity, to carry, in the name of God embodied, the closeness of salvific and concrete support.”
Later, the Holy Father set his sights on the importance of “inclusion,” a term that “expresses well an outstanding feature of Jesus’ style.” “For Jesus,” he emphasized, “no one should be excluded from God’s salvation.”