In a frantic world, in which you run “for producing” and “demonstrating”, the Pope invited to know “stop and rest” while assuring that God does not give “immediate solutions”, works on the “slow time of trust.”
“Sometimes we look for quick responses, immediate solutions. But God works deeply, in the slow time of trust,” said the pontiff during the general audience.
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Leo XIV continued on Wednesday with catechesis on “Jesus hope ours” to stop at the mystery of Holy Saturday.
The Son of God lies in the grave, but his “absence is not a void,” said the pontiff. It is the day “of the great silence”, in which the sky “seems silent and the earth motionless”, but it is precisely there that the deepest mystery of the Christian faith is fulfilled. “
“It is a gravid silence of meaning, like the belly of a mother who guard the son still not born, but I already live,” he added.
The Holy Father used the metaphor for the waiting of a pregnancy, to indicate that the time considered “not useful” of the pauses and the apparently “sterile” moments can become “resurrection belly.”
Thus, he commented how Jesus after completing his work of salvation, rests “not because he has surrendered, but because he has loved until the end.”
“There is nothing more to add. This rest is the seal of the work fulfilled, it is the confirmation of what had to be done and that has been completed. It is a rest full of the hidden presence of the Lord,” he said during the catechesis.
The Pope stressed that only if we know how to host with gratitude what happened, we will discover that, “just in smallness, and in silence, God loves to transfigure reality doing all things new with the fidelity of his love.”
“True joy is born from the inhabited waiting, of patient faith, of hope that how much has lived in love, certainly will resurface eternal life,” he said.
Then he lamented the frantic life of today’s society that puts above the entire verb produces: “We fatigue in stopping and resting. We live as if life was never enough. We run for not losing ground. But the Gospel teaches us that knowing how to stop is a gesture of trust that we have to learn to fulfill,” he said in this regard.
In this way, he explained that Holy Saturday invites us to discover that life “does not always depend on what we do, but also on how we know how to give up how much we have been able to do.”
He also made it clear that God is not afraid of the time that passes, because “he is also lord of waiting.”
“All welcoming silence can be the premise of a new word. Every time detained can become time of grace, if we offer it to God,” he explained.
On the other hand, he said that the image of Jesus, buried on earth, “is the mesueto face of a God who does not occupy all the space.” Leo XIV assured that Jesus Christ is the God “who lets him do, what he expects, to retire to leave us freedom.”
Therefore, he urged to learn not to be “has a hurry to resurface” because it is “more it is necessary to rest, host silence, let yourself be hugged by the limit.”
“The Christian hope is not born in the noise, but in the silence of a wait inhabited by love. She is not the daughter of euphoria, but of a confident abandonment,” he said.
Like every Wednesday, the Pope toured in his papamobile the Plaza de San Pedro where many families waited from early in the morning so that he could bless their children. Many of the faithful carried posters to congratulate him for his saint. Today Wednesday, September 17, the Church celebrates San Roberto Belarmino, Patron of Leo XIV, so it is a festive in the Vatican.
Victoria Cardiel
Victoria Cardiel is a journalist specialized in social and religious information issues. Since 2013, he has covered all the news of the Vatican for various media, such as the Spanish news agency Europa Press, or the weekly of the Archdiocese of Madrid, Alfa and Omega.