Vatican City: Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday reminded the faithful that nothing can separate them from the love of Christ, as he continued his catechesis on the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum during the weekly General Audience.
Reflecting on Divine Revelation, the Pope said that through Jesus Christ, Christians truly come to know God the Father and are able to trust Him with confidence. He recalled that God reveals Himself not as a distant presence, but through a relationship of love and friendship that invites people into communion with Him.
Pope Leo explained that this revelation reaches its fullness in Jesus Christ, who is both the mediator and the complete expression of God’s self communication. In Christ, God does not merely share ideas or teachings, but gives Himself personally, allowing humanity to discover that it is known and loved in its deepest truth.
Pope stressed that Jesus reveals the Father by drawing humanity into His own relationship with Him. Through the Son and the work of the Holy Spirit, believers gain access to the Father and are called to share in divine life. In this way, Christians come to know God as children who are known, loved, and embraced by Him.
Quoting the Gospel of Matthew, Pope Leo recalled Jesus’ reassurance that the Father sees even what is hidden and knows the needs of His children. He also cited Saint Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, highlighting that believers are adopted as children of God and can cry out with trust, calling Him “Abba, Father.”
Pope underlined that Jesus reveals the Father through His real and complete humanity. He said that God’s truth is not revealed by diminishing what is human, but precisely through the full humanity of Christ, who lived, suffered, healed, taught, died, rose again, and remains present among His people.
Pope Leo emphasized that salvation is not only found in the death and resurrection of Jesus, but in His entire person. By sharing human life fully, Christ invites people to see reality as He sees it and to encounter God through His human experience.
Concluding his catechesis, Pope assured the faithful that by following Jesus fully, they can be certain that nothing can separate them from God’s love. Quoting Saint Paul once more, he said, “If God is for us, who is against us?”