"At Advent said the Pope the liturgy often repeats and reassures us, as if trying to overcome our natural mistrust, that God ‘comes’: He comes to stay with us, in every one of our predicaments; He comes to live amidst us, with us and in us; He comes to fill the gaps that separate and divide us; He comes to reconcile us with Him and with one another". In other words, He comes "to knock on the door of every man and woman of good will, to bring to individuals, families and peoples the gifts of brotherhood, agreement and peace". So, "Advent is the very time of hope, in which the believers in Christ are called to stay in a vigilant and industrious wait, fed by prayer and by the factual commitment of love". To properly experience Advent, "the liturgy he explained exhorts us to look to the Most Holy Virgin": "let’s let ourselves be attracted by her beauty", so that "the coming God" will find in each of us a good and open heart, which He can fill with His gifts. After the Angelus prayer, the Pope greeted the "girls of the Focolari movement, who had come from many countries of Europe and Latin America for a spiritual meeting" and "the basket team on a wheelchair of the Sports Association of Disabled People" of Vicenza.” ” ” “
