This is the sixteenth 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!
“There is a widespread sickness in the world: the lack of confidence in life.”
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV considers how hope generates life.
When we don’t look at life with hope, we risk no longer seeing it as a gift, but as a burden, and even a threat from which to protect ourselves.
In a world where there is a widespread lack of hope in life, the courage to live and to generate life is a more urgent call than ever.
To generate life means striving for solidarity and equality, caring for creation, and offering comfort and help to all. It means trusting in the God of life and promoting humanity in all its expressions, particularly in the “wonderful adventure of motherhood and fatherhood.”
“Begotten by the Father, Christ is life and has generated life without reserve, to the point of giving his own, and he invites us too to give our lives.”
