WE must behave like children to enter the Kingdom of God.
After a little boy spontaneously ran up to him during his weekly Wednesday General Audience yesterday in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall, Pope Francis gave this reminder.
He was continuing his catechesis on Saint Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, focusing specifically on “Freedom is realised in love.”
The little boy had managed to run up to the Argentine Pontiff to ask for his zucchetto.
“In these days we are talking about the freedom of faith, listening to the Letter to the Galatians,” he said.
“But I was reminded of what Jesus was saying about the spontaneity and freedom of children, when this child had the freedom to approach and move as if he were at home.”
“Jesus tells us, too, if you do not behave like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.’”
Pope Francis applauded their “courage to approach the Lord, to be open to the Lord, not to be afraid of the Lord.”
Pope Francis thanked the boy named Paulo “for the lesson he has given us all”.
“May the Lord help him in his limitation, in his growth because he has given this testimony that came from his heart,” he said.
“Children do not have an automatic translator from the heart to life – the heart takes the lead.
“Thank you.”
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