Pope: God walks with us, revealing His humility

Sept 24, 2013: Jesus awaits us always, this is the humility of God 'as stated by Pope Francis at Mass Tuesday morning at the Casa Santa Marta. The Pope, who was inspired by the Psalm "Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord", stressed that the Sacrament is not a magic ritual, but an encounter with Jesus who accompanies us in life.

In the history of the People of God, the Pope observed, there are "good moments that give joy" and also bad times of pain, of martyrdom, of sin. Be it bad times or good, one thing is always common: the Lord is there, He never abandons His people! For the Lord, on that day of sin, the first sin, He took a decision, he made ​​a choice: to make history with His people. And God, who has no history, because it is eternal, wanted to make history, walking alongside His people. And more: become one of us and as one of us, He walks with us, through Jesus. This tells us of the humility of God." He observed.

“This shows us God’s greatness, he noted, but at the same time, it also illustrates His humility. And when his People strayed from Him in sin and idolatry,” the Pope continued, “He was there, waiting. And Jesus shows the same humility: “he walks with the People of God, walks with the sinners; walks also with the arrogant.” The Lord, said Pope Francis, did much to “help these arrogant hearts of the Pharisees.

The Church, the Pope said, rejoices in God’s humility, that humility which accompanies us as “We go with joy to the House of the Lord.” “We go with joy,” the Holy Father said, “because He accompanies us, He is with us… and the Lord Jesus, even in our personal lives, accompanies us with the Sacraments. The Sacrament is not a magic rite: it is an encounter with Jesus Christ; we encounter the Lord – it is He who is beside us and accompanies us.”