Biden cites Pope Francis in White House prayer breakfast talk

April 09, 2015

At the recent White House Easter prayer breakfast, Vice President Joe Biden cited Pope Francis.

“I never fail to get a renewed sense of hope and possibilities when I attend Mass on Easter Sunday,” said Biden. I believe Pope Francis got it right in his Easter Vigil homily when he said, ‘We cannot live Easter without entering into mystery. To enter into mystery means the ability to wonder, to contemplate, the ability to listen to the silence and hear the tiny whisper amid the great silence by which God speaks to us.’”

“I think that’s who we are as Christians, and quite frankly, I think that’s who we are as Americans,” the vice president continued. “We’re constantly renewed as a people and as individuals by our ability to enter into the mystery. We live our faith when we instill in our children the ability to wonder, to contemplate, and to listen to that tiny whisper amid the great silence. We live our faith when we nurture the hope and possibilities that have always defined us as a country. We live Easter -- and to live Easter is to live with the constant notion that we can always do better.”

“I’ve been so honored to work every single day for the last six-plus years with a man who encompasses that faith to his core,” Biden added as he introduced President Barack Obama as “a man who knows what it is to enter into the mystery with a deep and unyielding conviction that it’s within each of our reach to make real the promise of the ongoing miracle that is the United States of America.”

 

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Further information:

• Remarks by the President and the Vice President at Easter Prayer Breakfast (White House)
• President Obama raps ‘less than loving’ Christians (CWN, 4/7)