Posted on 10/04/2021 5:44:51 PM PDT by marshmallow
In this Sunday's Angelus address, Pope Francis names a temptation and offers an exhortation to Christian communities.
“May God preserve us from the mentality of the ‘nest’, that which consists of guarding oneself jealously in the small group of those who consider themselves good,” begged Pope Francis on the occasion of the Angelus pronounced from the window of the Apostolic Palace, September 26, 2021. The Argentinian pontiff has invited Catholics not to consider holding “the exclusivity of Jesus.”
Before a large crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis warned Christians against “the temptation to closedness.” Commenting on an episode of the Gospel in which the disciples of Jesus want to prevent a good work on the pretext that the person who carries it out does not belong to their group, the successor of Peter castigated this partisan spirit which considers that only the initiated are “authorized to work for the Kingdom of God.”
“Sometimes we too, instead of being humble and open communities, can give the impression of being ‘the first of the class’ and keeping others at a distance,” the head of the Catholic Church developed. “We can display our ‘believer’s license’ to judge and exclude,” he said again, pretending to show a license with his hand. “It’s a sin,” he insisted, pulling out of his notes.
He then begged God to preserve Catholics from the “mentality of the ‘nest’, that of jealously guarding ourselves in the small group of those who consider themselves good: the priest with his faithful, the pastoral agents closed among themselves so that no one can infiltrate, movements and associations in their particular charism, etc.”
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Thus spaketh the man who lives in a walled city.
LORD, send forth your Spirit, and renew the face of the Earth!
When did they fully open the Vatican?
When he keeps out people who are not vaccinated from entering the Vatican, is he not creating an exclusive little group?
Good fences make good neighbors.
Does that mean anything in English? Or, for that matter, Spanish, Italian, Latin or anything else?
I'm certain Jesus isn't merely exclusive, He's downright unique.
I’m Protestant. Will a Catholic priest offer me communion next Sunday? No? Why so exclusive?
For the record: They have every right to withhold a sacrament from me. I am not a member. They don’t owe me that.
The Pope is wrong to send a message that they need to be open to all. They need to be available to all, if people chose to join. But that’s entirely different. His message is off the mark.
Commie Poope.
My thought exactly. I loved Pope Benedict — he was a tough dude — his name wasn’t God’s Rottweiler for nothing.
This commie apostate “Francis” has driven me from the church.
But Francis has a security detail, a bulletproof Popemobile and lives in a walled city with guards.
I’ve had it. I am just done.
More one-world propaganda from this stinking communist POS...
Too bad he died so young. Wait a minute.....
As he huddles behind the walls of the Vatican.
“This commie apostate “Francis” has driven me from the church.”
This is EXACTLY what satin wants you to do. Where can you go to received the Living Lord in the Eucharist?
The devil wants us to get frustrated & leave the Church.
Please come back.
Paraphrasing the words of a great president; I didn't leave the Church, it left me.
Satan has corrupted the Church and now has his minion Bergoglio as the pope.
Francis, you smelly old moron, the early Christian communities were exclusive communities.
That’s an awful big rap to lay on a fabric, don’t you think? Or did you mean “satan”?
CC
If I posted what I thought about this crapball, I would be banned for life
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