In his two years as Roman Pontiff, Pope Francis has become known as the Pope of the poor and disenfranchised, but in his Angelus message Sunday he reminded his hearers of the predominance of the spiritual over material life, saying that the universal “hunger for life and eternity” is even more important than a physical hunger for earthly food. Citing the Gospel reading for the day, Francis said that Jesus wishes us to understand that “beyond physical hunger human beings carry in themselves another hunger—all of us have this hunger—a more important hunger, that cannot be satiated by ordinary food.” This hunger, the Pope continued, is “a hunger for life, a hunger for eternity that only He can satisfy, because he is the ‘Bread of Life.’” Francis noted that Jesus does not eliminate concern for the procurement of our daily food, or of anything that can make our lives better.
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