Leo XIV: “If you really want something, do everything you can to get it”

Vatican City, June 11 (EFE).- Pope Leo XIV encouraged doing “everything possible” to achieve what is desired, “even when others reprimand or humiliate you”, during the catechesis of this Wednesday’s general audience held in St. Peter’s Square before thousands of people.

The American pontiff continued his reflections on the parables of the Gospel and on that of the blind man and beggar Bartimaeus, explaining that “it teaches us to appeal to the resources we carry within us and that are part of us.”

“If you really want something, do everything possible to get it, even when others reprimand you, humiliate you and tell you to give up. If you really want it, keep shouting!”, urged Leo XIV.

And he added: “However, many times what blocks us are precisely our apparent certainties, what we have put on to defend ourselves and that, instead, prevents us from walking.”

Before the thousands of people who crowded the square, it was also pointed out that sometimes “it is not obvious that we want to be cured of our illnesses, sometimes we prefer to stay still so as not to assume responsibilities” and that “sometimes people get blocked because life has humiliated them and they only want to regain their worth”.

But then he said that what saves “each of us” is faith and that “Jesus heals us so that we can be free”.

“Dear brothers and sisters, let us confidently bring our illnesses before Jesus, and also those of our loved ones, let us bring the pain of those who feel lost and without a way out. Let us also cry out for them, and be sure that the Lord will hear us and will stop”, he concluded. (photo) (video)