Holy Father Pope Francis while addressing the pilgrims gathered at St. Peter’s Square, Vatican, conveyed the continuous temptation faced by the faithful to follow Christ without a Cross and highlighted the effects of such temptations which takes the faithful away from the loving Lord Almighty.
As reported by en.radiovaticana.va, Holy Father remarked that “Jesus reminds us his way is the way of love, and there is no true love without self-sacrifice and nowadays, there is always a temptation to follow the Christ without a Cross, rather, to teach God the right path.” Further, His Holiness added, “The golden rule that God has inscribed into human nature created in Christ is that only love gives meaning and happiness to life.”
His Holiness was referring to the passage in the Bible, where Jesus revels to the disciples that he will suffer, be killed and rise again in Jerusalem and He is reproached by Peter because he cannot accept that all this will happen to the Messiah.
