Posted on 12/06/2021 6:16:42 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
ROME — Pope Francis urged the Christians of Cyprus Friday to bear witness to Jesus Christ but never to proselytize.
Proselytism — or the attempt to convert others to one’s faith — is different from evangelization, the pope suggested, which is the joyful witness of one’s experience of Christ.
Speaking at Mass in Nicosia, the pontiff reflected on the day’s gospel reading that recounts the healing of two blind men, who, despite being “sternly” warned by Jesus not to talk about their cure, spread the news throughout the region.
“There is a bit of irony in this fact: Jesus had told them not to tell anyone, but they do the exact opposite,” the pope noted. “From the story, however, we understand that it is not their intention to disobey the Lord; they simply cannot contain the enthusiasm of having been healed, the joy of their encounter with him…”
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Seriously
I hope none of you Roman Catholics are donating to your “church” anymore
Good Grief, what more evidence do you need that antichrist is running your denomination?
Its not a slam, I just hope your eyes are awake as to whats happened and you aren’t blindly supporting it financially.
Arright...this guy’s just making it up as he goes along, now.
Actually the Pope is a Globalist and fully in line with their agenda.
“Just”? He crossed it a while ago.
He must think that St. Paul and all the martyred disciples were crackpots and buffoons. Oh, that’s right, just like every other Communist does.
HA! You say against all evidence!
Outwardly he looks the very part of the Christian, yet he is as a whitewashed tomb: pure white without, yet inside filled with dead men’s bones and every corruption.
But by his FRUITLESSNESS we know him.
He is a barren tree, as the fig tree cursed of The LORD.
A CINO, a pretender, and The Word dwells not in him.
He has upon him the derision of God; the scorn of Christ for the old Pharisees, for that neither has he entered in, nor has he been of help to any that were entering in, but has hindered many that would have.
Therefore upon him is the greater condemnation, and his destiny lies in fire and torment save that he yet repent, and believe.
“Actually the Pope is a Globalist ...”
True enough. The “making it up” part was in reference to his pretense at being a Bible teacher. The Word may be in his head, but it is foreign to his heart.
Satan would give that advice.
I hope you are right.
Indeed. He needs to be thrown in the Tiber.
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