Full Text: Pope Leo XIV's Angelus Address Given Aug. 23, 2026
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Full text: Pope Leo XIV's Angelus address given Aug. 23, 2026
(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Aug. 23 at St. Peter’s Square. Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday! This Sunday’s Gospel (Mt 16:13-20) confronts us with a question that speaks to each of us on our journey of faith: Who is Jesus, truly, for me? The Gospel passage makes us understand how decisive this question is for the experience of discipleship. Indeed, although the 12 apostles had already…
"Jesus calls us to know him intimately, to allow ourselves to be transformed by friendship with him"
At noon today, the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Pope Leo XIV appeared at the window of his office in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican to pray the Angelus with the faithful and pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square. “Let us learn not to close ourselves off in our religious convictions and certainties, but to remain open to an authentic relationship with Christ,” the Pope urged. Below we publish the Pope’s words during the Angelus: *** Words…
(EFE).- Pope Leo XIV this Sunday asked the Catholic faithful not to “enclose themselves in their religious convictions and certainties” and to avoid the temptation to turn the Christian faith into “a mere custom”, during the prayer of the Sunday angelus. From the window of the Apostolic Palace, the pontiff assured that the faith “is not [...] The entry The Pope warns against turning the faith into “a mere custom” was first published in ALnavío.
This August 23, Pope Leo XIV in his reflection prior to the prayer of the Angelus said that, this Sunday’s Gospel “sends a question that challenges each one of us on the path of our faith: who is Jesus really for me?” This text, he added, is a fundamental step for the disciples ...
The news The Pope invites in the angelus a personal relationship with Christ: “Who is Jesus really for me?” was first published in Last Minute Religious News
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