Posted on 09/21/2017 7:03:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
The scandals, "There are so many, many ... And always, even in the Church today. They say, 'No, you can not, it's all clear, it's all, no, no ... Those are sinners, we have to turn them away.' Many saints have also been persecuted or suspected. " "The door that leads to encounter with Jesus is recognizing ourselves as we are, the truth. Sinners ".
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - "The door that leads to encounter with Jesus is recognizing ourselves as we are, the truth. Sinners. And He comes". "I want mercy and not sacrifices" said Pope Francis at Mass this morning at Casa Santa Marta, commenting on the gospel song of the day recalling the conversion of St. Matthew to return to stigmatizing those who put "Doctrine" before mercy.
In remarks following the Readings of the Day, which included St. Matthew’s own account of his conversion and calling into discipleship, the Holy Father focused on the three stages of the episode: calling, feasting, and scandal.
Jesus had just healed a paralytic, when He met Matthew – a tax-collector, hence a figure despised by Jewish authorities and considered a traitor to his land and people – sitting at the customs desk.
Recalling Caravaggio’s famous depiction of the scene, Pope Francis spoke of Matthew’s “sidelong look” with one eye on Our Savior and the other on his purse: a look that was even stand-offish, if not outright aggressive. Then, there was the merciful gaze of Jesus, which communicated such overwhelming love that the resistance of the man who wanted the money, “fails”: Matthew got up and followed Him.
“It is the struggle between mercy and sin,” Pope Francis said
Jesus’ love was able to enter into the heart of that man, Matthew, because he “knew he was a sinner,” he knew.....
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Mercy IS doctrine.
Real Christians know a fake when they see it: Frankie the Poop. Go away and bring back the REAL Pope.
Or is it, “Doctrine IS Mercy”?
And while grace may be free, having been paid for by Christ, it’s proper application has certain necessary terms ... like repentance. And that too is doctrine.
Not speaking of any specific individual here, but it often seems as if some on the left (so-called “progressive Christians”) use this mercy v doctrine issue specifically to suggest that repentance isn’t necessary for whatever they now say should be okay.
To paraphrase the old song, they want mercy where: “just as I am, I’m changing not, how dare you say my soul’s got spots, I’m okay, that should be enough, oh Lamb of a God, I’ll come, but only just as I am...”
... and “doctrine” becomes the code word for charging that calling for repentance is something men added, not God. In the extreme they just maintain that doctrine is naught but human ideology and had ancients not been homophobic etc (and therefore wrong, if not downright bad) they would have realized what modern progressives now have.
Romans 1:18-32 is spot on describing the more virulent growths of these spiritual tares.
Hey Pope, there is a very hot place waiting for the evil person you are.
I’m not a Catholic, however, even I know that the Gospel, A.K.A. “Doctrine”, is mercy.
God is both Mercy and Judgement.
As the NT makes crystal clear - there is a line between mercy and the inversion of evil and good.
Hell was not made for man but man can choose it. Do not be on the wrong side of his judgement.
...”neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more.” John 8:11
And stating that doctrine does not come before mercy is, in and of itself, a doctrine.
Are the 10 commandments ,doctrine or mercy???????
Jesus told us to Love God and our neighbor.
To loves someone we need to avoid sin.
For real? Which Law are you talking about?
Truth is greater than mercy Pope Francis.
You cannot have mercy without truth. You can have truth without mercy.
My understanding of this Francis fellow is that he equated validation of sin with mercy. The truth is in fact the opposite, it is NOT merciful to endorse wickedness even if it makes people like him uncomfortable. There’s a really old book, of which he is apparently ignorant, with much to say on the subject.
But not without admonishment.
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