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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: What You Need to Know About the Life of Jesus this Christmas with Andrea Tornielli
Description: “There is no faith without an encounter, because faith is a personal encounter with Jesus,” Pope Francis writes. He goes on: “One of the things that helps us when we have the Gospels before our eyes is to imagine those encounters with Jesus—recreate them, look at him ourselves, meet him ourselves. In the Gospels, to look and to see are two very important verbs. So let us approach the episodes in the life of Jesus with eyes filled with contemplation.”
This is a brief excerpt from the introduction to the new book “The Life of Jesus” by veteran Vatican reporter and c...