Tag: God

Most of us carry an inner sense of what God’s voice sounds like. We may not think about it consciously, but we imagine a certain tone—gentle or stern, patient or disappointed. Often, without realizing it, we link God’s voice to our behavior. If we’ve done well, we imagine encouragement. If we’ve fallen short, we brace for correction. It’s as if God waits to speak until after we’ve acted, responding to our successes or failures.

But that’s not how God relates to us.

Each year, the Holy Father invites the Church—and anyone of goodwill—to unite in prayer for a specific intention each month. It’s a simple but powerful way to remember that our faith is never lived alone. When we pray with the intentions of the Pope, we join our voices with millions around the world, asking God to move in our hearts and in our communities.

The Incarnation is not a poetic idea or a distant doctrine. It is God choosing to step directly into the grit and beauty of human life—into families with tensions, bodies that grow tired, communities that misunderstand, and days that don’t go as planned. Jesus didn’t come to float above real life; He came to inhabit it so that we could learn how to make sense of our own.