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©Ivan Navarro

"The Pope is not the center of the Church. Christ is the center of the Church. Without Christ neither the Church nor the Pope would exist and they would have no meaning". These were the words of the Pope to thousands of journalists and reporters yesterday in the papal audience for the media. Today in the papal angelus prayer, in front of more than 150.000 souls, he proclaimed to the world that the action of Christ when he forgave the adulterous woman revealed that the face of God is the face of a merciful Father.

Christ is our only hope. No one else but Christ will save us. As a Church we are living a moment of grace by being in the Lent, in the fifth Sunday of Lent. This Lenten season invites everyone in the Church to allow Christ to bring us closer and closer to Him who renews our hearts and fills our spirits with his Love. Lent is the time to enter into a more profound relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ by reliving, through his Word, his most Holy Passion with which he saved us forever. Prayer, fasting, and works of mercy are his invitation to walk with him towards the Sunday in which we will celebrate with our whole being his Resurrection.

As we continue to give thanks to God for the wonderful man that He has given us as Pope, let us give more of ourselves to Christ in prayer and faithfulness. We do not know what is going to happen in the papacy of Pope Francis but we can be sure that Christ will continue to steer his Church and will continue to be in control of this community. He is the Head of the body which is the Church and so He will not let anything prevail over the Church. We trust Christ alone who will continue to transform each one of us and will continue to reform his Church for He is God and He is Faithful, Merciful, and Patient.