“Lift up your gaze!”
Pope Leo’s trip to Spain revealed “a widespread need to find unity based on a true and deep foundation.”
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV shares some reflections on the Apostolic Journey he made last week to Spain, visiting Madrid, Barcelona, the Abbey of Montserrat, and the Canary Islands.
The Pope was welcomed in Spain with enthusiasm, joyful faith, and a readiness to listen. He encouraged the faithful to overcome division and conflict by promoting communion, dialogue, and unity, to “reread the Gospel in today’s world, exchanging the gifts of our respective cultures with each other.”
The motto of this Apostolic Journey was “Alzad la mirada”, “Lift up your gaze!” (cf. Jn 4:35)—we are called to see others as Christ does.
“Let us lift up our gaze! Let us learn from Jesus to look at our neighbor, at people and at the world, ‘through God’s eyes,’ that is, with love, respect and compassion.”


