Grace, faith, and love””Pope Leo XIV visited the tomb of St Paul and prayed, “May the Lord grant me the grace to respond faithfully to His call.”
In his homily, he reflected on Paul’s life and three key themes: grace, faith, and justification.
Grace, he said, is God’s love reaching us first. As St Augustine wrote, we cannot love unless we are first loved.
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Faith is our free response to God. “The just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17).
Justification is the transformation that follows. Paul, once a persecutor, became a martyr for Christ.
Quoting Pope Benedict XVI, he said: “God loves us. This is the great truth of our life; it is what makes everything else meaningful.”
May we, like St Paul, let that love change us.
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Finis · A.M.D.G
Speak, in charity.