Pope at Audience: Meditating is a way of encountering Jesus Pope at Audience: Meditating is a way of encountering Jesus (CNS photo/Vatican Media) April 28, 2021 Continuing his catechesis on Christian prayer during the weekly General Audience, Pope Francis explains the importance of meditation, highlighting that it is a means of prayer that helps us encounter Jesus and find ourselves. By Fr. Benedict Mayaki, SJ For a Christian, Pope Francis said at the General Audience, “to ‘meditate’ is to seek meaning: it implies placing oneself before the great page of Revelation in order to try to make it our own, taking it in completely.”