![]() ![]() However, the Pontiff asked, “how does a heart become hardened? How is it possible that these people, who were always with Jesus, every day, who heard Him, saw Him. And this work continues after the Resurrection, with the disciples of Emmaus and many others. The Lord is faced with this hardness: it is “such work” for Jesus “to make this heart more docile, to remove the hardness, to make it loving”, Francis continued. The Pope said that many times in the Gospel, Jesus “speaks of hardness of the heart”, He rebukes “the stiff-necked people”, He weeps over Jerusalem, “which doesn’t understand who He is”. “Why? Because their hearts were hardened”. Even witnessing the miracle, even having “seen that those people - more than 5,000 - had eaten of five loaves”, they didn’t comprehend. Yet, Francis explained, “they were the Apostles, the ones closest to Jesus. ![]() In the passage of the Gospel according to Mark (6:45-52), we read that the disciples “did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened”. But “how does a heart become hardened?”, Pope Francis asked during Mass at Santa Marta on Friday morning. 3, 16 January 2015)Ī hardened heart is unable to comprehend even the greatest miracles. ![]()
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