Heed Christ’s last cry from the Cross, Pope tells audience
September 10, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: “On the cross, Jesus does not die in silence,” Pope Leo XIV reminded those in attendance at this regular weekly public audience. He cited the Gospel of St. Mark (15:37): “Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last.”
That cry, the Pope said, expressed “everything: pain, abandonment, faith, offering.” To cry, he said, is not a sign of weakness but “a profound act of humanity.”
The Pontiff went on to say:
To cry out therefore becomes a spiritual gesture. It is not only the first act of our birth, when we come into the world crying: it is also a way of staying alive. One cries when one suffers, but also when one loves, one calls, one invokes. To cry out is saying who we are, that we do not want to fade away in silence, that we still have something to offer.The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.
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