This is the fourteenth 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!
“Our humanity is best fulfilled when we exist and live together.”
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV explores the theme of fraternity: “Love one another as I have loved you” (cf. Jn 15:12).
Believing in the resurrection, living paschal spirituality, helps us love and nurture fraternity, one of the great challenges of contemporary life. Our humanity is best fulfilled through forming authentic bonds with one another; if, instead, we turn in on ourselves, we risk reducing the other to someone from whom we can take, without ever being truly willing to give of ourselves.
But to live true fraternity, we need to go to the source: the fraternity given by Christ, which frees us from selfishness, and restores us to our original vocation to love.
“The Risen One has shown us the way to journey with Him, to feel and to be ‘brothers and sisters all.’”
