ROME (CNS) — Leading a prayer to God for the grace to feel ashamed and repentant for so many sins in the world, Pope Francis highlighted the hope that always comes from Jesus.

There is hope “because your church, holy and made up of sinners, continues even today, in spite of attempts to discredit it, to be a light that illuminates, encourages, comforts and witnesses your unlimited love for humanity, a model of altruism, an ark of salvation and a source of certainty and truth,” the pope said.

There is hope “because from your cross — the fruit of greed and cowardice of many doctors of the law and hypocrites — came the resurrection,” which turned darkness into eternal light and shows that Jesus’ love is their hope, he said.

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