Enjoy EWTN news show VATICANO through YOUTUBE. On the link below, pay attention to minutes 9'53" to 12'32"
The Holy Father has encouraged us with the confidence
on our filial condition with God, our condition of God’s children. Maybe we all
are not parents, but for sure, we all are children. It is a common condition.
It is true that we do not choose to be born, but it is also true that, through
our relationship with our parents, we mature the reality that this life is a
gift from God, said the pope.
In this sense, our
relationship with God is around his paternal figure. He is father, my father,
your father, our father. He, the God of all creation and existence is FATHER in
a personal and singular way of each one of us. His Holiness has liked to remind
us that in this personal relationship with God as Father, we become what we already
are, children of his.
This happens through
faith, through the profound and personal YES to God as the origin and base of
my existence. The pope continued explaining that this faith is based in Jesus
Christ, who has made the father known to us. And to believe that Jesus is the
Son of God requires being reborn from on high, from God who is love. So, the pope talked of the
meaning of baptism, which is a new birth through the grace of the Holy Spirit
in the Church’s womb.
Ending the Christmas
season, the Holy Father concluded giving thanks to God, who has become man so
that we become his children. We renew our faith in the joy of being children as
men and women and as Christians and we ask the good God to help us to really
live out this condition of children, not only by word but also by facts.
