Pope at Audience: Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love

Vatican, Jan 21, 2026: Reminding the faithful that nothing can separate them from the love of Christ, Pope Leo reflected on the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum on Divine Revelation during his Wednesday General Audience.

“Thanks to Jesus, Christians know God the Father and entrust themselves to Him with confidence.”

Part of his catechetical series on the Second Vatican Council, the reflection focused on Dei Verbum, which the Pope had described the previous week as “one of the most beautiful and important” documents of the Council.

What happens in Jesus Christ

Recalling earlier reflections, the Pope said that God reveals Himself through a covenantal dialogue in which He addresses humanity as friends. Such revelation, he explained, is relational: it does not simply convey ideas but shares a lived history and calls people into reciprocal communion.

This revelation reaches its fulfilment, he said, in a concrete historical and personal encounter in which God gives Himself to humanity, makes Himself present, and allows us to discover that we are known in the deepest truth of who we are.

“It is what happens in Jesus Christ,” the Pope said, recalling that Dei Verbum teaches, “The deepest truth about God and the salvation of man shines out for our sake in Christ, who is both the mediator and the fullness of all revelation.”

Christ reveals the Father to us

The Pope stressed that Jesus reveals the Father by drawing humanity into His own relationship with Him. In the Son sent by God the Father, “humanity might in the Holy Spirit have access to the Father and come to share in the divine nature.”

For this reason, he explained, “we reach full knowledge of God by entering into the Son’s relationship with His Father, by virtue of the action of the Spirit.”

“Thanks to Jesus,” Pope Leo said, “we know God as we are known by Him.” In Christ, he added, “God has communicated Himself to us, and, at the same time, He has manifested to us our true identity as His children, created in the image of the Word.”

‘Your Father, who sees in secret will reward you’

Referring to Saint Matthew’s Gospel, the Pope recalled Jesus’ assurance, “Your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you,” and His reminder that “your Father knows that you need all these things.”

Jesus Christ, the Pope said, is the place where the truth of God the Father is revealed, while at the same time we discover ourselves known by Him as sons in the Son, called to the same destiny of fullness of life.

He then cited Saint Paul’s Letter to the Galatians: “When the fullness of time had come, God sent His Son … so that we might receive adoption as children. And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’”

The Lord’s own humanity

The Pope went on to underline that Jesus reveals the Father through His own humanity.

“Precisely because He is the Word incarnate who dwells among men, Jesus reveals God to us with His own true and integral humanity,” he said, insisting that “in order to know God in Christ, we must welcome His integral humanity.”

“God’s truth is not fully revealed where it takes something away from the human, just as the integrity of Jesus’ humanity does not diminish the fullness of the divine gift. It is the integral humanity of Jesus that tells us the truth of the Father,” the Pope said.

*Not only the channel of transmission of intellectual truths*

“It is not only the Death and Resurrection of Jesus that save us and call us together,” Pope Leo emphasised, “but His very person: the Lord who becomes incarnate, is born, heals, teaches, suffers, dies, rises again and remains among us.”

Therefore, he said, “to honour the greatness of the Incarnation, it is not enough to consider Jesus as the channel of transmission of intellectual truths.”

“If Jesus has a real body, the communication of the truth of God is realised in that body, with its own way of perceiving and feeling reality, with its own way of inhabiting and passing through the world.” In this way, “Jesus Himself invites us to share His perception of reality,” the Pope said.

Nothing can separate us from God’s love

Concluding his catechesis, the Holy Father assured the faithful that “by following the path of Jesus to the very end, we reach the certainty that nothing can separate us from God’s love.”

Quoting Saint Paul once more, Pope Leo said: “If God is for us, who is against us?”

Courtesy: Vatican News