During Sunday’s Angelus, Pope Leo XIV said God’s style is to reveal himself “to the little ones,” while remaining hidden “from the wise and learned.” Those who are “so full of their own ideas,” he explained, fail to recognize “the presence of Christ, the Messiah who visits his people.”Commenting on this Sunday’s Gospel, which invites the faithful to share in the praise Jesus raises to the Father, “Lord of heaven and earth,” the Pope warned that “human wisdom then becomes arrogance and doctrine degenerates into pride.”
“The true wisdom of God is revealed,” he continued, “in the humility of the flesh.” Christ’s teaching, he added, is directed especially to those facing the greatest difficulties.Turning to Jesus, the Pope said, means “responding to his love and sharing his life up to the Cross.” “The offering of oneself out of love is the yoke of Jesus, that is, the synthesis of his teaching, the heart of his wisdom, burning with charity towards all,” he noted.As a true teacher, he said, “Jesus takes charge of humanity wounded by evil, to care for it.”
The wisdom Christ gives, he added, “is a promise of salvation, and His yoke lifts us up in every fall.”Pope Leo XIV stressed that the path of those who follow Christ is not “an asceticism that mortifies,” but “a school of freedom, which takes the drama of history seriously and always illuminates its meaning, especially in the darkest moments.”
Only on the Cross of Jesus, he said, “is evil redeemed: only in his passion does our mortal weariness find comfort and redemption.”“In slavery, Christ is liberation. Under the scourge of war, Christ is hope. In the hour of sin, Christ is forgiveness. This is true wisdom, that is, the path we want to walk together, united in his name as disciples,” the Pope concluded.