“There is no sin into which we fall from which, with the grace of God, we cannot rise; there is no individual who is irretrievable, because God never stops willing our good, even when we sin.” That was the hopeful message of the Gospel on Sunday, which Pope Francis focused on during his weekly Angelus address. Speaking from the window of the Apostolic Palace to the faithful gathered in St Peter’s Square, the Holy Father commented on the three parables in the day’s Gospel. In the first, God is presented as a shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine sheep to go in search of the one that was lost; in the second, as a woman who has lost a coin, and searches for it until it is found; in the third, as a father w ...

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