Vatican City, May 20, 2018 / 06:58 am
Though people may promise to change things, it is the third person of the Holy Trinity that creates real change through the reinvigoration and renewal of hearts, Pope Francis said on Pentecost Sunday.
"Plenty of people promise change, new beginnings, prodigious renewals, but experience teaches us that no earthly attempt to change reality can ever completely satisfy the human heart," the pope said May 20.
"Yet the change that the Spirit brings is different. It does not revolutionize life around us, but changes our hearts."
This change, Francis continued, does not take away all of our problems, but "liberates us within so that we can face them. It does not give us everything at once, but makes us press on confidently, never growing weary of life. The Spirit keeps our hearts young."