Pope: if we don’t "profess" the faith or trust in God, we become "defeated Christians"...

Asia News ^ | 1/10/2014

[markomalley]

"If we Christians believe professing the faith, even safeguarding it, if we are custodians of the faith , and entrust ourselves to God , the Lord , we will be victorious Christians. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith". Otherwise we would be "half hearted Christians" those "defeated Christians" of which the Church "is full", said Pope Francis during his homily at Mass this morning at Casa Santa Marta.

Vatican Radio reports the Pope's homily focused on the passage from the First Letter of St. John, in which the apostle , "insists " on "that word which for him is as an expression of Christian life" , " remaining in the Lord" to love God and to love our neighbor . This "remaining in love" of God is the work of the Holy Spirit and our faith and has a concrete effect:

"Whoever remains in God, whoever is begotten by God, whoever remains in love wins the world and the victory is our faith. For our part, faith. For God - for this 'remaining' - the Holy Spirit, which carries out this work of grace. For our part, faith. This is really something! And this is the victory that has won over the world: our faith ! Our faith can do anything! This is victory! And it would be good if we repeated this, even just to ourselves, because we are so often defeated Christians. The Church is full of defeated Christians who do not believe in this, that faith is the victory, who do not live this faith, because if you do not live this faith, then there is only defeat and the prince of the world wins over the world".

The Pope recalled that Jesus praised the very faith of the Woman, the Canaanite, the man born blind and said that those who have faith, like a mustard seed can move mountains . "This faith - he says - requires two attitudes of us: to profess and entrust ourselves". First of all "profess".

"Faith is to profess God, but the God who has revealed Himself to us, from the days of our fathers until now, the God of history. And this is what we recite every day in the Creed. It is one thing to recite the Creed from the heart and another like parrots, no? I believe, I believe in God, I believe in Jesus Christ, I believe ... do I believe in what I say ? Is this profession of faith true or am I reciting it off by heart, because I have to? Or do I only half believe in it? Professing the Faith! All of it, not just a part of it! All of it! And safeguarding the faith in its entirety, as it came to us, on the road of tradition: all of the faith ! And ' how do I know if I profess the faith well? There is a sign: those who profess the faith well, all of the faith, are able to worship, worship God".

"We know how to ask God how to thank God - the Pope said - but to worship God, to praise God is something more! Only those who have this strong faith are capable of worship". And Pope Francis added: "I dare say that the thermometer of the life of the Church is a bit ' low in this: the capacity to worship is somewhat scarce, "we do not have a lot , some , yes ... " . And this "is because we are not convinced or only half convinced in the profession of our faith". So - said the Pope - the first attitude is to profess the faith and safeguard it . The other attitude is "entrusting ourselves".

"The man or woman who has faith entrust themselves to God: they entrust themselves! Paul, in a dark time in his life, said: 'I know well to whom I have entrusted myself'. To God! The Lord Jesus! Entrusting ourselves and this leads us to hope. Just as the profession of faith leads us to the worship and praise of God, trust in God leads us to an attitude of hope. There are many Christians who have a watered down hope, not a very strong one: a faint hope . Why? Because they do not have the strength or the courage to trust in the Lord . But if we Christians believe professing the faith, even safeguarding it, if we are custodians of the faith , and entrust ourselves to God , the Lord , we will be victorious Christians. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. "

[ebb tide]

Statement 3 says it all. And Pope Francis violated those cannons (along with Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict). As a matter of fact, all three of the above have also participated in common prayer with heretics and/or muslims. Look up Assisi I and Assisi II. Look below at Cardinal Bergolio getting "blessed" by heretics:

[annalex]

Assisi, yes. Hanukkah — I don’t see the Pope joining in the Jewish prayer, so no.

Nice try, but your rant is off-topic. Have a nice weekend, calm down.

[ebb tide]

As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergoglio attended Rosh Hashanah services at the Benei Tikva Slijot synagogue in September 2007.

New pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, has Jewish connections.

[ebb tide]

So you have no defense of Cardinal Bergoglio requesting and accepting a “blessing” from heretics? Not much unlike his Gang o’ Eight O’Malley doing a similar thing recently.

Rodney King comes to mind. Have you heard of him?

[ebb tide]

“When he speaks about evangelization, the idea is to evangelize Christians or Catholics,” to reach “higher dimensions of faith” and a deepened commitment to social justice, Skorka said. “This is the idea of evangelization that Bergoglio is stressing – not to evangelize Jews. This he told me, on several opportunities.”

New pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, has Jewish connections

Now keep in mind, annalex; whether the rabbi's above statement is true or not, plans are still on for the Pope and Skorka to visit the Holy Land together.

How much "evangelizing" do you expect the Pope to do?

[piusv]

ebbtide, just posting this article because I didn’t see the Rabbi quote in the one you linked:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-popes-rabbi/

And boy does that quote say it all.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Mortalium Animos, an infallible teaching of the Church, forbids Catholics from participating in any non-Catholic assembly.

Infallible...is that one of those ex-cathedra declarations?

If so, a Catholic is forbidden to attend a protestant church service?

Is a Catholic representative forbidden to attend the daily prayer in the House of Representatives?

[annalex]

I have nothing to say beyond my posts on the prohibition of common prayer and the topic of this thread being different that anti-papal rants. Please get lost, and get some rest. The Holy Church, such as it is, is just fine without you.

[ebb tide]

And Jorge Bergoglio has violated the prohibition of common prayer in Buenos Aries. He has done it with Jews; he has done it with Protestants. I think the Holy Church, such as it is, would be just fine without him in the Chair of Peter. Of course, this pope refuses to sit in said Chair.

[annalex]

I have nothing further to say on the topic of your hatred to the Holy Father. The Holy Church is just fine no matter what you think. When you feel better, come back.

[ebb tide]

You keep saying that you have nothing further to say, yet you keep on talking.

I thought of you during today's Epistle.

Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.

So, I bless you annalex, and I bless Fr. Volpi and Fr. Volpi's boss, Pope Francis.

Dominus vobiscum

[annalex]

I have nothing further to say on the topic of your hatred to the Holy Father. The Holy Church is just fine no matter what you think. When you feel better, come back.

[ebb tide]

Broken record. See your post 90.

FYI, I don’t hate the Holy Father, so kindly stop saying I do. To continue to do so would be to continuing to spread a lie.

God Bless you.

[annalex]

When you feel better, come back.