Jesus excludes no one, Pope tells Sunday audience
CWN - August 26, 2013
"Jesus does not exclude anyone," Pope Francis told his Sunday audience on August 26.
The Pope was commenting on the day's Gospel, with the injunction from Jesus: "Strive to enter through the narrow gate." That gate, the Pontiff said, is Jesus Himself, and "the gate that is Jesus is never closed." This, the Pope explained, is because Jesus is always anxious to welcome and forgive sinners.
The gate is narrow, the Pope said, only because "Jesus asks us to open our hearts to Him, to recognize ourselves as sinners in need of his salvation."
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