Posted on 04/07/2021 6:54:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Easter Vigil, when the Gospel readings tell of the discovery of Christ’s empty tomb, is one of the most dramatic liturgies on the Christian calendar, and Pope Francis used the service Saturday (April 3) to invite faithful to “begin anew” — follow Jesus by letting go of the nostalgia for the past.
According to the Gospels, the women who had been following Christ before his death go to his sepulcher to find an angel who tells them that their leader “is going ahead of you to Galilee.” In his homily, Francis said going to Galilee means “it is always possible to begin anew, because there is a new life that God can awaken in us in spite of all our failures.
“From the rubble of our hearts, God can create a work of art; from the ruined remnants of our humanity, God can prepare a new history,” he said.
About 200 worshippers, including white-clad cardinals, candles in their hands, attended the Mass in the unlit St. Peter’s Basilica, kept dark to mimic the obscurity of Christ’s tomb. As they sang the Gloria and prayed, the light grew brighter and brighter in the Basilica, and Francis reflected on “these dark months of the pandemic.”
Christ’s resurrection, he said, serves as an example of new beginnings and a call to “never lose hope.”
Over the past year, the pandemic not only forced most ceremonies to go online, but also exacerbated, Francis suggested, the difficulties of restructuring a church struggling with financial and sexual scandals. In talking about how Christ’s invitation “also means setting out on new paths,” the pope criticized what he called “a faith of memories,” the kind of faith, he explained, “that can become the memory of something once beautiful, now simply to be recalled.”
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Be a shame if George Soros and Pope Soros both croaked.
“From the rubble of our hearts, God can create a work of art; from the ruined remnants of our humanity, God can prepare a new history,”
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Pope Francis used the service Saturday (April 3) to invite faithful to “begin anew” — follow Jesus by letting go of the nostalgia for the past.
The Dancing Boy of Islam can go crossdress for his Muzzie masters.
I like it!
After Poop Francois gets done playing bacha bazi for his Musloid "admirers", he's known as "Pope Sore@ss"...
I’m waiting for Francis to tell us we really need to rethink that whole “Satan is evil” idea.
to Jesus.
But not the narrow way.
I will confess, looking back at the good old days is one of my greater sins.
Jeremiah 6:16-19
King James Version
16 Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
NAILED IT.
Seek the old paths.
yup, sticking to the true message of Christ as taught for 2000 years in the Church and not some 19th century nonsense like dispensationalism
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