Words of the Holy Father- “Lord, I need you before God we are poor, suffering, we are hungry 09-11-24

 Words of the Holy Father- “Lord, I need you before God we are poor, suffering, we are hungry 09-11-24

The page from today’s Gospel (…) invites us to reflect on the profound sense of having faith, which consists in our trusting completely in the Lord. It is about demolishing worldly idols in order to open our hearts to the true and living God. He alone can give our life that fullness so deeply desired and yet difficult to attain. (…) Indeed there are many in our day too who purport to be dispensers of happiness: they come and promise us swift success, great profits 

within our reach, magical solutions to every problem and so on. And here it is easy to slip unwittingly into sinning against the first Commandment: namely idolatry, substituting God with an idol. (…) This is why Jesus opens our eyes to reality. We are called to happiness, to be blessed, and we become so as of now, to the measure in which we place ourselves on the side of God, of his Kingdom, on the side of what is not ephemeral but rather endures for eternal life. We are happy if we acknowledge we are needy before God — and this is very important: “Lord, I need you” — and if, like him and with him, we are close to the 

poor, the suffering and the hungry. We too are like this before God: we are poor, suffering, we are hungry before God. (Angelus, 17 February 2019)

Wednesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time

Gospel and Thought for the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day.html 

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