Posted on 10/01/2014 9:32:18 AM PDT by marshmallow
The prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith said when the authentic Word is deconstructed, we risk depriving ourselves of the authentic happiness only Christ can bring.
CORDOBA, Spain — With the Synod on the Family just days away, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith cautioned against deconstructing the Gospel message to make it artificially easy.
“We can talk a lot about God, and in the end, do so without faith,” warned Cardinal Gerhard Müller during a Sept. 28 Mass at the cathedral in Cordoba, where he delivered an address on St. John of Avila.
“We can ‘deconstruct’ the Gospel and Tradition and remake them to the liking of today’s world, making their demands easy and accommodating them to the fragile, superficial, immature and post-modern man.”
However, he cautioned, if we were to deprive ourselves “of the chance to confront our lives with the divine Word, we would also lose the chance to enjoy the authentic happiness that Christ brings, who did not come to take away the crosses of life but to make our burden lighter and to encourage us to always do the will of God.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
Müller's pre-Synod salvo.
**Cardinal Müller: Don’t Remove Gospel’s Challenges to Accommodate Post-Modern Man **
We don’t need watered down homilies either.
Hold steady, Cardinals, et al.
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May there be MANY more to come!
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