By Fr. Bernard Holzer, aa
In his message sent to participants in the seminar “Evangelizing with families today and tomorrow. Ecclesiological and pastoral challenges”, Pope Leo XIV is inviting us vigorously to promote a personal encounter with God, “whose tender love values and loves the story of every person!”
“Faith is primarily a response to God’s love, and the greatest mistake we can make as Christians is, in the words of Saint Augustine, “to claim that Christ’s grace consists in his example and not in the gift of his person”. How often, even in the not too distant past, have we forgotten this truth and presented Christian life mostly as a set of rules to be kept, replacing the marvelous experience of encountering Jesus – God who gives himself to us – with a moralistic, burdensome and unappealing religion that, in some ways, is impossible to live in concrete daily life.”
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