"Jesus asks, 'Who am I for you?" -- Pope Francis

[MariaChristi]

…“Today he looks straight at us and asks, ‘Who am I for you?’ As if to say: ‘Am I still the Lord of your life, the longing of your heart, the reason for your hope, the source of your unfailing trust?’”…

…“Prayer is the water needed to nurture hope and increase fidelity. Prayer makes us feel loved and it enables us to love in turn. It makes us press forward in moments of darkness because it brings God’s light. In the Church, it is prayer that sustains us and helps us to overcome difficulties.”

“A Church that prays,” he said, “is watched over and cared for by the Lord. When we pray, we entrust our lives to him and to his loving care. Prayer is the power and strength that unite and sustain us, the remedy for the isolation and self-sufficiency that lead to spiritual death.”

Unless we pray, he said, the Spirit of life does not breathe and “the interior prisons that hold us captive cannot be unlocked.”

Full text of the Pope’s homily today, on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul can be read: HERE