At the Sunday Angelus in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo said God’s Kingdom grows through love, patience and hidden grace—not through dramatic displays of power or force.
Three parables from Matthew—the wheat and weeds, the mustard seed and the yeast—framed his message that God works in history through smallness, freedom and steady transformation.
Pope Leo warned that expecting God to erase evil immediately can distort both Christian life and the Church, leading believers toward arrogance, domination or hasty judgment.
Quoting the future Pope Benedict XVI, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he urged Christians to follow “the logic of the seed” by becoming small, serving others and acting as “leavens of love.”