VATICAN CITY: What God asks of people is too difficult and demanding to do without help from Jesus and Mary, Pope Francis said.
People need to lose themselves in the contemplation of Mary’s sweetness and Christ’s suffering in order to receive the grace necessary to live out God’s will, he said in his September 12 homily at his residence in the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
What God asks of people “is not easy to live out: Love your enemies, do good to them, lend without expecting anything in return, turn the other cheek,” he said.
“These are tough things, right? We, with our own strength, we can’t do it. We cannot do this. Only grace can do it in us,” a grace that comes from contemplating Christ, he said.
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