via Vatican News:

Amid the cacophony of voices and messages that surround us, we need a human story that can speak of ourselves and of the beauty all around us.  A narrative that can regard our world and its happenings with a tender gaze.  A narrative that can tell us that we are part of a living and interconnected tapestry. A narrative that can reveal the interweaving of the threads which connect us to one another….

 How many stories serve to lull us, convincing us that to be happy we continually need to gain, possess and consume.  We may not even realize how greedy we have become for chatter and gossip, or how much violence and falsehood we are consuming.  Often on communication platforms, instead of constructive stories which serve to strengthen social ties and the cultural fabric, we find destructive and provocative stories that wear down and break the fragile threads binding us together as a society.  By patching together bits of unverified information, repeating banal and deceptively persuasive arguments, sending strident and hateful messages, we do not help to weave human history, but instead strip others of their dignity….

In an age when falsification is increasingly sophisticated, reaching exponential levels (as in deepfake), we need wisdom to be able to welcome and create beautiful, true and good stories.  We need courage to reject false and evil stories.  We need patience and discernment to rediscover stories that help us not to lose the thread amid today’s many troubles.  We need stories that reveal who we truly are, also in the untold heroism of everyday life….

The Bible is thus the great love story between God and humanity.  At its centre stands Jesus, whose own story brings to fulfilment both God’s love for us and our love for God.