Pope speaks on 'hidden virtue,' repentance, and hope
December 04, 2014
Pope Francis spoke of the “hidden holiness” in the Church in his homily at daily Mass on December 4.
“The proud, the vain, the ‘Christians in appearance’ will be demolished, humbled,” the Pope told the congregation at the Domus Sanctae Marthae. But he encouraged the faithful to notice the quiet, steady work of faithful clerics:
Let us consider so many priests who are not seen, but who work in their parishes with such love: catechesis for children, care of the elderly, of the sick, the preparation of new spouses… and every day the same, the same, the same. They are not bored because their foundation is the rock. It is Jesus, it this that gives holiness to the Church, it is this that gives hope!”
The Pontiff went on to say that people who have sinned gravely can seek pardon and return to virtue. This too gives hope, he said: “the capacity to seek pardon, to not confuse sin with virtue, to know well where virtue is, and where sin is.”
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