Pope reflects on God’s love
March 16, 2015
Reflecting on John 3:16, Pope Francis devoted his March 15 Angelus address to God’s boundless love.
“We turn our heart’s gaze to Jesus crucified and we feel in us that God loves us, he truly loves us, and he loves us so much,” he said. “This is the simplest expression that summarizes the whole Gospel, all of faith and all of theology: God loves us with a free and boundless love.”
Following creation, “the gratuitous love of God stand out in the successive steps in the history of salvation,” Pope Francis added. God chose Israel as his people, “not because they deserve it, but precisely because it is the smallest among all peoples.”
“If in creation the Father has given us the proof of his great love by giving us life, in the passion of his Son he has given us the sum of all proofs: he has come to suffer and die for us,” the Pope continued. “And this love that is so great is the mercy of God, because he loves us, he forgives us.”
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