Vatican City, Jun 29, 2018 / 04:39 am
The ability to know and have a relationship with the living Christ is both a mystery and a grace, something which Christians understand interiorly, not through mathematical proofs, Pope Francis said Friday.
"Jesus is the Son of God: therefore, He is perennially alive as his Father is eternally alive," the pope said June 29.
"This is the novelty that grace ignites in the heart of those who open themselves to the mystery of Jesus: the non-mathematical certainty, but even stronger, interior, of having met the Source of Life, the life itself made flesh, visible and tangible in the midst of us."
Pope Francis spoke about a Catholic's experience of the mystery of Jesus before leading the Angelus in St. Peter's Square for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the patrons of Rome.