“God is not ambiguous, He is not hidden behind riddles, He has not planned the future of the world in an indecipherable manner.” In his catechesis on the third petition of the “Our Father”, His Holiness Pope Francis said that we can see the will of the Father expressed in the words of Jesus: God wills “to seek and to save that which was lost”. This, the Pontiff said, “without any shadow of doubt, is the will of God: the salvation of all human beings”, of each one of us individually.
As reported by Vatican news, Because of His love for us, God “knocks on the door of our heart” in order “to draw us to Himself, to lead us forward along the path of salvation”. God, the Pontiff said, “is close to each one of us with His love, in order to lead us by the hand to salvation”. And we, in prayer, ask that God’s seeking might come to a good end, that His universal plan of salvation should be accomplished,” His Holiness Pope Francis continued, “first, in each one of us, and then in the whole world.”
His Holiness Pope Francis pointed to the example of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, when the Lord prayed, “Father, if you are willing, remove this chalice from me; but not my will, but yours, be done!” Although He is “crushed” by the weight of evil in the world, Jesus “confidently abandons Himself to the ocean of love of the will of the Father”. In His love, God will never abandon us, the Pontiff insisted: “He will always be with us, beside us, within us. For a believer, more than a hope, this is a certainty”.
