Holy Father Pope Francis while addressing the faithful gathered for the Holy Mass conveyed that miracles contain an exhortation for every believer in the sense that once one is freed from the grips of evil and has regained his or her strength following the intervention of Jesus one is invited to put him or herself at the Lord’s service. His Holiness Pope Francis reflected on the Gospel reading of the day and invited the Church to continue to go forth into the world bringing Jesus’s salvific message to a suffering humanity.
As reported by Vatican Radio, Holy Father Pope Francis remarked that “The crowd, marked by physical suffering and spiritual misery, constitutes, so to speak, the vital environment in which Jesus’ mission is accomplished, a mission made of words and gestures that heal and console, It is the image of a humanity that is scarred by suffering, labor and problems, and it is to this poor humanity that Jesus’s powerful, liberating and renewing action is directed.” Further, His Holiness added, “Miracles are always “signs” that require the response of faith; they are signs that are accompanied by words that enlighten us and together arouse faith and lead to conversion thanks to the divine power of the grace of Christ”.
His Holiness Pope Francis concluded his remarks by inviting the Church to continue to go forth bringing its mission and its salvific message into the world – always – he stressed: in movement, never still!
