This is the twenty-third 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!
“God reveals himself in a dialogue of covenant, in which he addresses us as friends.”
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV continues his catechesis on the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, reflecting on the Dogmatic Constitution ‘Dei Verbum,’ on Divine Revelation.
Jesus reveals the Father to us by involving us in his relationship with him—it is in Christ that God communicates himself to us and manifests to us our true identity as his children, created in the image of the Word.
Thus, it is not only through his death and resurrection that Jesus saves us and calls us together, but through his humanity. The Lord, who becomes incarnate, is born, cares, teaches, suffers, dies, rises again, and remains among us.
“By following the path of Jesus to the very end, we reach the certainty that nothing can separate us from God’s love. . . . Thanks to Jesus, Christians know God the Father and entrust themselves to him with confidence.”
