Vatican shares ailing Pope Francis’ weekly catechesis: ‘Jesus Christ our hope’

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antiquity, Asia, Africa, and Europe, as well as the three phases of human life: youth, maturity, and old age,” the pope explained in his Feb. 19 catechesis.</p> <p>“They are men who do not stay still but, like the great chosen ones of biblical history, feel the need to move, to go forth. They are men who are able to look beyond themselves, who know how to look upward,” he said. </p> <div class="my-4 lightest-grey-bg py-3 body-ad" style="text-align: center" id="div-gpt-ad-1439931607151-0"></div> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1439931607151-0'); }); </script> <p>Despite difficulties experienced in the journey of faith, the Holy Father said God speaks to people through “creation and the prophetic word.”</p> <p>“The sight of the star inspires an irrepressible joy in those men, because the Holy Spirit, who stirs the heart of whoever sincerely seeks God, also fills it with joy,” he shared.</p> <p>Through ancient Scripture, the Magi were able to identify the birthplace of the “newborn King of the Jews” and “become the first believers among the pagans” in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world. </p> <p>“They see ‘a humble little body that the Word has assumed; but the glory of divinity is not hidden from them. 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