Pope at Angelus: Beatitudes can become a measure of happiness

God gives hope to those whom the world discards as desperate, Pope Leo XIV said on Sunday during his midday Angelus address in the Vatican.

Recalling the day’s Gospel reading according to Matthew on the Beatitudes, the Pope said Jesus announces Good News for all humanity.

“These are, in fact, lights that the Lord kindles in the darkness of history, revealing the plan of salvation that the Father accomplishes through the Son, with the power of the Holy Spirit.”

On the mountain, Christ gives the disciples a new law written in the heart, no longer on stone, “that renews our lives and makes them good, even when the world seems to have failed us and is full of misery,” the Pope noted.

Only God, he said, “can truly call the poor and afflicted blessed, because he is the highest good who gives himself to all with infinite love,” only He “can satisfy those who seek peace and justice, because He is the just judge of the world, the author of eternal peace.”

The Pope continued by saying that “Only in God do the meek, the merciful, and the pure of heart find joy, because he is the fulfilment of their expectations,” and in persecution, they find redemption, and in falsehood, they find “an anchor of truth.”