Posted on 05/17/2014 3:53:49 AM PDT by NYer
Vatican City
“Pope Francis says studying Jesus is not enough to get to know him, we must also pray to him, celebrate him and imitate him. This was the Pope’s core message at Mass on Friday in the Santa Marta residence, Vatican Radio reports. In his homily the Pope reflected on the best way for us to get to know Jesus, describing it as the most important work in our lives. At the same time he warned that studying or having ideas was not enough on its own to acquire that knowledge of Jesus.”
“Ideas by themselves do not lead anywhere and those who pursue the path of their own ideas end up in a labyrinth from where they can’t get out again! It’s for this reason that heresies have existed from the very beginning of the Church. Heresies are this: trying to understand with our minds and with only our personal light who Jesus is. A great English writer wrote that a heresy is an idea that’s gone crazy. That’s right! When they are ideas by themselves they become crazy… This is not the right path!”
Pope Francis explained that we need to open three doors in order to know Jesus:
“The first door is praying to Jesus. You must realize that studying without prayers is no use. We must pray to Jesus to get to know him better. The great theologians did their theology while kneeling. Pray to Jesus! By studying and praying we get a bit closer… But we’ll never know Jesus without praying. Never! Never!”
“The second door is celebrating Jesus. Prayer on its own is not enough, we need the joy of celebration. We must celebrate Jesus through his Sacraments, because these give us life, they give us strength, they nourish us, they comfort us, they forge an alliance with us, they give us a mission. Without celebrating the Sacraments, we’ll never get to know Jesus. This is what the Church is all about: celebration.”
“The third door is imitating Jesus. Take the Gospel, what did he do, how was his life, what did he tell us, what did he teach us and try to imitate him.”
“Entering via these three doors, the Pope went on, means entering into the mystery of Jesus and it’s only in this way that we can get to know him and we mustn’t be afraid to do this. During the day, today, we can think about how the door leading to prayer is proceeding in our life: but prayer from the heart is not like that of a parrot! How is prayer of the heart? How is the Christian celebration in my life proceeding? And how is the imitation of Jesus in my life proceeding? How must I imitate him? Do you really not remember! The reason is because the Book of the Gospel is full of dust as it’s never opened! Take the Book of the Gospel, open it and you will discover how to imitate Jesus! Let’s think about how these three doors are positioned in our life and this will be of benefit to everybody.”
"Through him, and with him, and in him, O God, almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honor and glory is yours, for ever and ever."
Okay, thanks. I wasn’t familiar with the term Doxology of the Liturgy. I didn’t know if it referred to the Great Doxology (the Gloria) or the Eucharistic Doxology before the Great Amen.
Through Him with Him and in Him in communion with the Holy Spirit, All Glory and Honor is Yours Almighty Father, Forever and Ever, Amen.
I see Salvation already answered your question. I posted a response without seeing that.
I guess St. Dominic and the Blessed Mother were all wrong regarding Our Lady's Rosary. No wonder Pope Francis disparages what he calls "rosary-counters".
Catholic services preserve the interactive call-and-response style of the Jewish services, which Jesus attended. Also, when his disciples asked him how to pray, he gave them a rote prayer— the Lord’s Prayer. Obviously, He didn’t use that one exclusively Himself (”My God, why have You forsaken me?”). But it wasn’t a bad idea.
It’s easy to pray rote prayer thoughtfully, without just babbling syllables. If people are doing otherwise, that’s on them, not on the content of the prayers or on the liturgical setting.
“Even Jesus taught the apostles and disciples how to pray the Our Father. Memorized prayer is OK since we are imitating Jesus.”
I’ve found that prayer to be very much a blessing lately. It is simple and covers all areas of need. And because the Father hears it through Christ Jesus and the “translation” of the Spirit, it is as deep and rich as our unfathomable hearts need it to be. “He knows what you need before you ask.”
Pope Francis prays the rosary every day of his life.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1304848.htm
Yeah, I’ve heard that before. I still don’t believe it.
Devout Catholics pray the rosary every day. Are you saying the Pope is not a devout Catholic?
Any Pope who refuses to give a visible apostolic blessing to a crowd, for fear of offending non-Catholics, is not a devout Catholic.
Any Pope who forbids a religious order from offering the TLM is not a devout Catholic.
Any Pope who spouts “prosleytism is nonsense” and “atheists can go to Heaven” is not a devout Catholic.
Any Argentinean Archbishop who allows false religions to worship in his cathedral is not a devout Catholic.
He is a Modernist, which as Pope St. Pius X decreed in 1907, makes him a heretic.
In a tribute to Pope John Paul II at the time of his death, then Cardinal Bergoglio recounted how, in 1985, the example of the Polish Pope inspired him, from that time on, to recite the 15 mysteries of the Rosary every day.
I would say any pope who does that stuff is not a valid pope.
If the Pope was saying a daily rosary, he wouldn't be doing the above. And he wouldn't be making fun of traditional Catholics who offer him Rosary bouquets.
If someone had listed those things as hypothetical a few years ago I think the majority of "conservative" Catholics would have agreed. Now we're watching the line in the sand being redrawn yet again.
Frankly I'm too afraid to call a spade a spade anymore because I don't know what's coming next. We're all in very dangerous territory, of that I am certain.
“Any Argentinean Archbishop who allows false religions to worship in his cathedral is not a devout Catholic”.
Billy Graham regularly had worship services in Catholic Cathedrals all over the world. So you are calling Billy Graham and his protestant faith a “false religion”. Do your research before you post something. The rest of your post is also nonsense.
“He falls asleep at night reading Kasper’s book of heresies. He calls people, living in mortal sin, out the blue telling them to find another Church, where nobody knows them”
And you believe everything you read from the liberal media.
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