This is the sixth 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!
“Christian hope is not born of noise, but in the silence of an expectation filled with love.”
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV continues his catechesis on Jesus our hope by reflecting on the mystery of Holy Saturday.
After completing his work of salvation, Jesus rests. But it is not an end—it is a repose filled with promise and expectation. Trust, when everything seems to be over.
We ourselves struggle to stop and rest. We rush to produce, to prove ourselves, to keep up. But the mystery of Holy Saturday teaches us that hope is born not in hurry and noise, but in silence and emptiness, in patient waiting through the barren moments, in the slow time of trust.
“When it seems to us that everything is at a standstill, that life is a blocked road, let us remember Holy Saturday. Even in the tomb, God was preparing the greatest surprise of all.”
