20. Some happy tip for our regular life

 When someone has something good, like a great joy, more often than not that person tends to tell that joy to his or her family, perhaps their friends, colleagues, neighbors, and the like. 

Well, you know, we Christians have something so great, which is the Person of Jesus Christ, true God and true man. For example Pope Leo XIV constantly talks about him. 

And also I would like to transmit and pass on the experience of treating him, of talking to him, also with him, for he may respond to your queries and questions, and he really does, as he used to do when we could see and hear him two thousand years ago in old Palestine. 

It’s something so great I cannot stop saying things about him and what he did for us – he redeemed us from our sins by dying on a cross, and resurrecting after three days. As well he redeemed us through all his life on earth, both some thirty years in his hidden life in Nazareth, while working as a carpenter, plus some three years of public life, preaching the kingdom of God and making miracles. 

We can tell him, I give you all my life, my liberty, and only then do we feel a great freedom. Like that. That does not mean that then man loses his liberty, no way, all the contrary: we are not freer than when we tell him to pilot our boat, our life. 

He has made us free, and in no way does he wish we would lose that liberty. 

So as to finish: we could miss him: he passed by our land two thousand years ago, and his countrymen were so happy so as to have him, see him, hear him, enjoy his miracles … but we people of the 21st century, we don’t have him. 

Well, he has stayed with us, and we do have him at the Holy Mass and afterward he remains in the Tabernacle of churches, and we can go and visit him and talk with him, like writer André Frossard, who did encounter him when he entered a church one day, when he was an atheist. Have a nice day.

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