This is the tenth in a new series of posts sharing Pope Leo XIV’s words each Wednesday in his Weekly Audience, a time when he teaches, encourages, and shapes the mission of the Church around the world. Check back here each Wednesday to get to know Pope Leo!
“Only He can fill our empty flask when our thirst becomes unbearable.”
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV invites us to consider the last part of our pilgrimage of hope in this Jubilee Year—Christ as the destination of our journey.
This pilgrimage of our lives is often an arduous, painful, and mysterious one, full of questions: Is there really a destination for me? Does my existence have any meaning? In this world of so much suffering, how can it be redeemed?
Only Jesus, who died and rose again, can respond to these deepest questions of our hearts, and he does not bestow upon us an answer “from above”—he becomes our companion on this journey, sustaining us, quenching our thirst, refreshing us in the hardships and struggles along our pilgrimage toward eternity.
He is our one sure hope. “The Risen One guarantees our arrival, leading us home, where we are awaited, loved, saved.”
