The Pope in the Audience: Despite everything, Jesus supports us

During his weekly general audience, Pope Leo XIV reflects on how Jesus sustains us despite everything, saying this truth should comfort us as we experience life's ups and downs.

Deborah Castellano Lubov

Walking with Jesus means experiencing being supported in spite of everything, having a quenched thirst and recharging oneself in the midst of trials and struggles which, like heavy stones, threaten to block or divert our path of life.

Pope Leo

In reflecting on the realities of human experience, the Holy Father recognized the often contradictory emotions and limitations that mark our lives.

Sometimes we feel joyful; at other times it's sad. We can feel fulfilled or stressed, gratified or unmotivated. We lead busy lives, focus on results, sometimes even achieving prestigious goals. Other times, we remain suspended, precarious, waiting for success or recognition that never comes, he said.

In short, he observes, we find ourselves in a paradox: we long for happiness, and yet lasting happiness often eludes us.

Struggling with our limits

Pope Leo emphasized that this tension reveals both our limitations and our deep desire to transcend them. “We accept what we lack, while feeling an irrepressible desire to overcome it. We feel deep down that something is always missing.”

However, he reassured the faithful, this aspiration is not by chance. We were not created for lack, but for fullness, to enjoy life and life in abundance.

This deep desire in our hearts, the Holy Father continued, cannot be satisfied by roles, power or possessions. It can only be achieved by the certainty that someone supports this founding impulse of our humanity, with the assurance that our deepest hopes will not be disappointed.

The risen Christ is our certainty and our hope

This assurance, Pope Leo affirmed, is found in Jesus Christ.

This certainty, he stressed, is what we call hope. This is not simple optimism, optimism often collapses under the weight of disappointment. But hope, Christian hope, promises and fulfills.

Sisters and brothers, the resurrected Jesus is the guarantor of this deliverance! He is the source that satisfies our thirst, this infinite thirst for fullness placed in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

The resurrection of Christ, he emphasized, is not simply a historical event, but the transformative mystery at the heart of time.

The Risen One is a living source. It does not dry up and does not change. He is always pure, always present, always ready for those who thirst.

A taste of eternal peace

Citing the Confessions of St. Augustine, Pope Leo spoke of the deep spiritual desire awakened by divine beauty: You exhaled a fragrance, and I inhaled my breath and panted for You. I have tasted, and now I am hungry and thirsty. You touched me and I burned for your peace.

Jesus, in his resurrection, guaranteed a permanent source of life. He is the Living One (cf. Rev 1:18), the Lover of life, the Victor over death, declared the Pope. He alone can refresh us throughout our earthly pilgrimage and offer us peace that lasts for eternity.

Only Jesus, he emphasized, answers the deepest questions of the human heart: “Is there really a destination for us? Does our existence have meaning? And how can we redeem the suffering of the innocent?

Christ walks with us

The resurrected Jesus does not offer answers from above, detached from our pain, Pope Leo said. Instead, he walks with us on a path that is often difficult, painful, and mysterious.

When our canteen is empty, when thirst becomes unbearable, the Pope recalled, only He can fill it.

The Holy Father emphasized that Jesus is not only our companion but our destination. Without His love, he says, life becomes aimless, a tragic journey with no real end.

He recognized human frailty, emphasizing that the wound of sin can lead us to fall, abandonment or despair. But we are not meant to remain fallen.

Only the peace He gives

So, Pope Leo encouraged us, we must “rise up” and “stand tall,” because the resurrected Christ “guarantees that we will arrive” and “brings us home, to a place where we are expected, loved and saved.”

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