Pope: be men and women who know how to say "yes" to the Lord
Inspired by the solemnity of the Annunciation Francis says that "we all, throughout each day, have to say 'yes' or 'no' and think if we always say 'yes' or if we often hide, with our head down, like Adam and Eve for ... do not say 'no', but pretend to be those 'that do not understand ... that do not understand what God is asking".
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - Being men and women who know how to say "yes" to the Lord, like Abraham, Jesus and Mary and not like those who look "the other way to avoid responding", said Pope Francis at Mass this morning in Casa Santa Marta House.
The Pope was taking his cue from the Feast of the Annunciation, the "yes" of Mary, to remember the "humanity of men and women" who while "elderly" like Abraham or Moses, "said yes to the hope of the Lord".
Abraham, he recalled, obeys the Lord, says "yes" to his call and to leave his land without knowing where he was going. And we also think of Isaiah who, "when the Lord tells him to go and tell the people," says he has "unclean lips". The Lord "purifies Isaiah's lips and Isaiah says yes!". The same goes for Jeremiah he thought he was unable to speak, but then he says 'yes' to the Lord.
"And today the Gospel tells us the end of this 'chain of yes' but the beginning of another 'yes', which begins to grow: Mary's yes. And that 'yes' that God does not only look at how man is progressing, not only walks with His people, but becomes one of us and takes on our flesh. Mary’s yes which opens the 'door of Jesus: 'I have come to do your will', the 'yes' that goes with Jesus throughout his life, even to the Cross. " It's the 'yes' of Jesus who asks the Father to take the cup from him, but adds: Father "Thy will be done." In Jesus Christ, therefore, "there is the 'yes' of God: He is the 'yes'".
This, he continued, is "a beautiful day to thank God for teaching us that the ‘ path of Yes', but also to think about our lives." A thought that the Pope addressed in particular to some priests present celebrating the 50th anniversary of their ordination. "All we all, throughout each day, have to say 'yes' or 'no' and think if we always say 'yes' or if we often hide, with our head down, like Adam and Eve for ... do not say 'no', but pretend to be those 'that do not understand ... that do not understand what God is asking. Today is the 'Feast of yes'. In the 'yes' of Mary is the 'yes' of the whole history of salvation, and there begins the last 'yes' of man and of God. " There, "God recreates, as in the beginning with a 'yes' He made the world and man, that beautiful creation" and now with this 'yes', "most wonderfully recreates the world, recreates all of us." And '' the 'yes' of God who sanctifies us, that keeps us going in Jesus Christ. "
"It 's a day to thank God and ask ourselves:' Am I a man or woman who says 'yes' or a man or woman who says no or do I look the other way not to avoid responding? '. May the Lord give us the grace to walk on this path of men and women who were able to say yes".
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