Posted on 10/16/2018 6:44:55 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis has returned to a common theme of his pontificate, this time in his homily for daily Mass at Casa Santa Marta, earlier this morning. The following are quotes from the pontiff, as reported by VaticanNews.va correspondent Adriana Masotti:
They [the Pharisees] were truly an example of formality. But they lacked life. … They were rigid.
Rigidity has been theme often repeated by the pope in connection to the rise of interest in the traditional Latin Mass among youths and young adults, as has been reported by LifeSiteNews in the past.
Continuing his homily, the pope stressed that such “rigid” individuals, like the “hypocritical” Pharisees of Jesus’s time, look to perfect only the external, and therefore – like whited sepulchers – hide corruption, greed, wickedness.
Jesus spoke clearly; He was not a hypocrite. He spoke clearly. And he said to them, “But why do you look at what is external? Look at what is within.” Another time He said to them, “You are whitened sepulchers.” Nice compliment, eh? Beautiful on the outside, all perfect…all perfect…but within, full of rottenness, therefore of greed, of wickedness, He says. Jesus distinguishes between appearances and internal reality. These lords are “doctors of appearances”: always perfect, always. But within, what is there?
The pope continued to focus on the “hypocrisy” of those who seem to “rigidly” adhere to their Catholic Faith. It should also be noted that the pontiff used language similar to that of one of his closest advisers, Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, when referring to those who report on the current crisis in the Church. “Jesus describes these people with one word: ‘hypocrites.’ They are people with greedy souls, capable of killing: ‘capable of paying to kill or calumniate, as happens every day. It happens today: they are paid to give bad news, news that smears others.’ But always, under or behind rigidity, there are problems, grave problems. Jesus is not there. The spirit of the world is there.”
Pope Francis ended his homily with a warning: “Be careful around those who are rigid. Be careful around Christians – be they laity, priests, bishops – who present themselves as so ‘perfect,’ rigid. Be careful. There’s no Spirit of God there. They lack the ‘spirit of liberty.’”
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Nice post as always, ebb tide.
Wait. Didn’t he just say the other day that the Spirit of God is not with those who criticize others???
Who holds themselves out as perfect? But if he is just criticizing people because they believe the teachings of the Church are true, then he is not acting as a true shepherd.
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That’s on Mondays and Thursdays. Condemning the rigid is on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Has he been snorting a “Walter White Special”?
That's incorrect. It's not just aimed at those interested in the TLM, it's any orthodox Catholic.
Right. It really doesn’t have much to do with liturgy. Rather, it’s his regular temper-tantrum aimed at any and every Catholic who opposes ditching Church teachings on marriage and sexuality. The gays (because their own obvious self-interest) and the liberals (mainly because of their idiocy) want to trash the Church’s perennial teachings on marriage and sexuality. Liberals like Pope Francis, who probably isn’t gay himself, have bought into the idea that Church teachings on marriage and sexuality are hopelessly outdated and are the main obstacle to the people joining or staying in the Church. Ditch the unpopular rules on marriage and sex, and people will come back in droves. It’s insanity, and that approach has tried and failed for countless liberal protestant sects, but, no matter, they still think it’ll work.
Nice comment and nice screen name. You’re one of a kind.
I’ve quit giving any money to the church. I will not be part of any institution raising money to promote heresy and sodomy. Not to resist openly is to consent tacitly. Until heretic Bergoglio is gone and an orthodox Catholic installed as pope that will start purging the church of sodomites I am done supporting it financially.
I had quit donating for a long time too, but then I found a Latin Mass parish where the pastor regularly calls out all the moral corruption in the Church and acknowledges that the rot goes all the way to the top at the Vatican. And so then I ask myself, if this parish isn’t part of the problem, then why should I starve it financially?
Why does this guy keep trying to get Catholics to abandon every part of Catholic belief they have ever learned. Is that so he can introduce his anti-Catholic beliefs and suggest that we take them for gospel? He is not a man of God!
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