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May 13, 2020 In Mass at Santa Marta, Francis prays to the Lord to give students and teachers the courage to go on in this time of the pandemic. In his homily, he said that Christian life is the mystique of a reciprocal "stay": us in Jesus and Jesus in us.Francis presides over Mass at Casa Santa Marta on Wednesday of the fifth week of Easter and on the day when the Church celebrates the memory of the Madonna of Fatima.
Here is his thought in the introduction:
We pray today for students, students who study, and teachers who must find new ways to go forward in teaching: that the Lord help them on this journey, give them courage and also a nice success.
In the homily, the Pope commented on today's Gospel (Jn 15: 1-8) in which Jesus says to his disciples: «I am the true vine and my Father is the farmer. Every branch that does not bear fruit in me, cuts it, and every branch that bears fruit, prunes it to bear more fruit ... As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself if it does not remain in the vine, so neither will you if you do not stay In me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, and I in him, bears much fruit, because without me you cannot do anything ».
Christian life is a "stay" in Jesus. The Lord uses the image of the vine. This "staying" is not a passive "staying", falling asleep in the Lord: it is an active and also reciprocal "staying". He too "remains" in us. It's a mystery of life, a beautiful mystery, "said Bergoglio.