Pope’s Angelus: “Jesus lets himself be touched by our pain and he heals life with love”

Sofia Lobos – Vatican City

Sunday June 27, Pope Francis prayed the Marian prayer of the Angelus leaning at the window of the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican with the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

Reflect on the reading of the Sunday Gospel (cf. Mc 5,21-43) the Holy Father analyzed the moment when Jesus “it comes up against our two most dramatic situations” like humanity, death and disease.

From them – Francisco added – he frees two people: a girl, who dies just when her father went to ask Jesus for help; and a woman, who for many years suffered from a rush of blood to her body, which at that time made her an “unclean” woman.

In this sense, the Pope explained that Jesus “He lets himself be touched by our pain and our death, and operates two signs of healing to tell us that neither pain nor death has the last word. He tells us that death is not the end. Overcome this. enemy, not alone we can free ourselves. “

The worst disease in life is lack of love

Focusing on healing women, especially at this time when disease continues to occupy the center of the news in the context of the pandemic, the Pontiff stressed that the worst disease in life “is the lack of love. and not being able to love “Something that she has surely suffered from being socially marginalized and having a heartache.

For this reason, Francis emphasized that we can all identify, in one way or another, with this woman whose name the Gospel does not reveal:

Hence the importance of the exemplary gesture of the woman, who, faced with all this suffering, finally chooses Jesus and rushes into the crowd to touch her cloak: “Seek direct, physical contact with Jesus.”

Seek out the gaze of Jesus

Likewise, the Pope underlined that at this time we understood, more deeply, how important contact and relationships are.

For Francis, it is essential to seek the gaze of Jesus, as this woman did in the midst of her anguish, because, as the Gospel tells us, “He is not looking at the crowd, but at the person. He does not stop at the wounds and mistakes of the past, he goes beyond sins and prejudices. It does not remain in appearances, it reaches the heart. And he healed precisely the one they had all rejected. He tenderly calls her “daughter” (v. 34) and praises her faith, restoring her confidence in her. “

A caress to the wounded in the heart

The Holy Father concluded his speech by exhorting us to let “Jesus watch and heal our hearts”, and also invited us to imitate him, “by doing as he did”, because many people who live around of us feel hurt, alone and need to feel loved. :