Living Faith writer Steve Pable offers these memories of the late Pope Francis:
I’m so filled with thanksgiving for the ways that the Holy Father made the Lord’s love more visible and accessible to all people.
One part of the legacy of Pope Francis that I treasure is his unwavering faith in the immediacy and the tenderness of the Lord’s presence.
A favorite passage that radiates his pastoral posture appears in Evangelii gaudium #128, in which the Holy Father encourages and describes how we can pray not just for one another, but with one another. When we learn of the heartfelt need of another person, “this fraternal and missionary encounter could end with a brief prayer related to the concerns which the person may have expressed. In this way they will have an experience of being listened to and understood; they will know that their particular situation has been placed before God, and that God’s word really speaks to their lives.”
In some sense, this is what I hope we do in our Living Faith community, and it has become something I strive to do in day-to-day life.
