Faithful greet Pope Benedict XVI as he arrives to the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican for his general audience, Wednesday, Jan. * Go to World Photos slideshow
You go first Pope.
Somewhere.
I say; the pope should let go of his ankles.
I guess the Pope didn't get the message...God wants us to be happy, happy, happy all the time. Isn't that what the Purpose Filled Life tells us?
/sarcasm
The Holy Father makes an interesting observation. Accepting our cross to bear with grace is probably the hardest thing in life. However, knowing that God is with you at every moment and bringing good out of it all takes a constant infusion of Faith, Hope and Love.
This thread is the perfect example of Satan lashing out at those who embrace the cross. He hates it. It takes away his power over man. It destroys his plan of victory over our souls. The bomb-throwers contributing to this post are only proving Pope Benedict's point. PERFECTLY.
It's threads like these, filled with vitriol and ridicule of the Holy Father, that show me how blessed I am to be Catholic.
And for those who are claiming that embracing suffering isn't biblical, apparently they've never come across the Beatitudes in all their biblical "study".
Pick up your cross and carry it quietly.
Our Pope says, "charity and proclamation always go together."
Ain't that the truth. That's whats missing, I think from our charities. Especially those once Catholic charities that have now become independent from the RC Church. When helping others became a math problem -- a problem of resources -- a problem of politics, rather than one of FAITH and PROCLAIATION (in the name of Jesus Christ), thats when we lost our way.
My view is that in general, We (the Church) today, have resorted to solving many of our problems (whatever they are) with logistics and politics, and yet the problems just become more complex and difficult. The beauty of the old method, one that carried us through two Milena as we expanded our church, is that we sanctified ourselves first, and then we went after souls as the primary mission, and in doing so, the problems more or less fixed themselves! In other words, we used to do it from the bottom up, one soul at a time, and of late it has been the other way around. And I'm not talking about the structure of the RC church here...I'm talking about the way we approach the problems of our day..our modern, flawed philosophies.
And so when I understand it this way, our great historical successes do not seem so surprising, because after all this was the way Jesus did it.