Pope Francis' Daily Homilies

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simple_soul said:
I was going through my Vatican Imformation Services notifications and found the one for the Pope’s prayer I intentions and found there where more listed in it.
Here is the text from the VIS

These intentions are near and dear to me and not just for personal reasons. In getting help for myself I have met so …so many souls who have been through far worse than me so it is more for thier silent screams I am asking this, so I am posting this here because I have not seen it posted anywhere else to let people know about in case they don’t already and to ask for people to please remember these intentions and joins the Holy Father and the Many people are already joining him this Sunday, June 2 from 5:00PM -6:00PM. Where ever you are and what ever you are doing please remember these intentions at that time and send a quick prayer up to Heaven together…

Thank you and God Bless you and yours/QUOTE

Thanks! More good intetions to pray for 🙂
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I like this one today:

en.radiovaticana.va/m_articolo.asp?c=697510

“How many times do you hear people say: ‘But you Christians, be a bit more normal, like other people: be reasonable!’ This is a speech by snake charmers, to be sure: ‘But, be normal, OK? A little more normal, do not be so strict.” But behind this is: ‘Please, do not come with [your] tales, [about] God who became man!’ The Incarnation of the Word: that is the scandal behind it! We can do all the social work we want, and they will say, ‘How nice, the Church, what good social work the Church does’. But if we say that we do this because those people [we help] are the flesh of Christ, there is scandal. And that is the truth, that is the revelation of Jesus: that presence of Jesus incarnate.”

And “this is the point,” said Pope Francis. “Always there will be the [temptation] to do good things without the scandal of the Incarnate Word, without the scandal of the Cross.” Instead, we must “be true to this scandal, to this reality that scandalises.” It is, “better this way: the coherence of the faith.” The Pope then recalled how the Apostle John says: “Those who deny that the Word came in the flesh, are from the antichrist; they are the antichrist.” On the other hand, he continued, “Only those who say that the Word is come in the flesh are of the Holy Spirit.” Pope Francis then said, “It would do us all good to think about this: the Church is not a cultural organisation that [includes] religion and social work.”

In other Pope Francis news, he also heard some Confessions before the Mass, so glad he’s encouraging Confession 👍

chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350527?eng=y
 
clem456 said:
Does anyone else notice that the Pope seems to be addressing his ministry towards the conversion of the faithful, those already Catholic, rather than converting "others’. It seems his homilies and talks are a sharp edged sword aimed at searching the hearts of Catholics, and exhorting us to be more fully who we are, rather than calling out the shortcomings of other faiths.
Is it true what someone once said:
“the best tool for evangelization is the mirror.”?
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Charity begins at home!

Us first.

Others later. 🙂
 
markomalley said:
From the daily Mass, 5/31/2013:
"You here at Mass, do you give praise to God or do you only petition God and thank God? Do you praise God? '. This is something new, new in our new spiritual life. Giving praise to God, coming out of ourselves to give praise; spending a little bit of time giving praise. But ‘this Mass is so long!’ If you do not praise God, you will never know the gratuity of spending time praising God, the Mass is long. But if you go with this attitude of joy, of praise to God, that is beautiful! This is what eternity will be: giving praise to God! And that will not be boring: it will be beautiful! This joy makes us free. "
This is something important to consider: do we keep God in our sight at all times? Do we occupy our minds with praise for God or do we concentrate on all the garbage we see going on around us?
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This morning I found a book that I have by St. Peter Julian Eymard "The Victim" and have been just reading it. St. Peter Julian says practically the same thing.
 
simple_soul said:
I was going through my Vatican Imformation Services notifications and found the one for the Pope’s prayer I intentions and found there where more listed in it.
Here is the text from the VIS

These intentions are near and dear to me and not just for personal reasons. In getting help for myself I have met so …so many souls who have been through far worse than me so it is more for thier silent screams I am asking this, so I am posting this here because I have not seen it posted anywhere else to let people know about in case they don’t already and to ask for people to please remember these intentions and joins the Holy Father and the Many people are already joining him this Sunday, June 2 from 5:00PM -6:00PM. Where ever you are and what ever you are doing please remember these intentions at that time and send a quick prayer up to Heaven together…

Thank you and God Bless you and yours
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God bless you too, Simple Soul. I will remember these intentions, and you as well, in my prayers. Pray for me too, please.
 
Lormar said:
God bless you too, Simple Soul. I will remember these intentions, and you as well, in my prayers. Pray for me too, please.
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Would you add a Hail Mary for me and my family,please? We need extra support these days…
I have you all in my prayers.
 
clem456 said:
Does anyone else notice that the Pope seems to be addressing his ministry towards the conversion of the faithful, those already Catholic, rather than converting "others’. QUOTE]

This is my perception in homilies in general.That´s to say,I can´t say “this homily is not for me.” It´s like there is always a part that hits the nail in what I need to improve.
Now ,if the comparison helps,Pope Francis has my “GPS” continuously “recalculating”.When I think I have arrived somewhere,he just re directs me somewhere else. This is probably what I like best of him.He keeps me on my toes.🙂
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Lucky7 said:
Yeah, pardon me, as I’m easily confused. :rolleyes:

I thought the “New Evangelization” was a “Catholic” thing as in promoting the Catholic Faith, not a “Christian” thing (as in all Christian communities).
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Lucky,I did not understand you at first.Now I think I do.
It does not call my attention to be addressed to as Christian because I am used to it.It is normal and familiar to me,cause I am a Christian. I lived abroad nearly all my life.I learnt here that the word Christian meant something different at a Christian store when I could not find a rosary…So for me Christian is fine,you know.It´s like the other way round, I do not particulary like to be excluded form Christianity.🤷
 
Sunday Angelus:

en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/06/02/angelus:_convert_to_faith_in_providence/en1-697685

Sunday Homily:

en.radiovaticana.va/m_articolo.asp?c=697748

The Homily is about “War is the suicide of humanity” and has some interesting quotes:

"He said our God is such that He hears the prayers of each one of us – not as an “anonymous” mass of prayers, but the prayers of each and every individual. “Our God is the God of the great and the God of small, our God is personal,” He listens to everyone with His heart, and loves “from the heart”

“It is the suicide of humanity, because it kills the heart, it kills precisely that which is the message of the Lord: it kills love!”
 
I share your enthusiasm for this new Pope…
nice homily; thanks for posting it.
 
graciew said:
Would you add a Hail Mary for me and my family,please? We need extra support these days…
I have you all in my prayers.
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I just saw this Gracie and will definitely pray for you and your family. That is a promise.
 
Gracie my prayers were with you yesterday too and still are with you…
 
“Judas [was the first]: from a greedy sinner, he ended in corruption. The road of autonomy is a dangerous road: the corrupt are very forgetful, have forgotten this love, with which the Lord made the vineyard, has made them! They severed the relationship with this love! And they become worshipers of themselves. How bad are the corrupt in the Christian community! May the Lord deliver us from sliding down this road of corruption.”
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The Pope spoke also of the saints, remembering that today is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Bd Pope John XXIII, “a model of holiness.” In the day’s Gospel, he added, the saints are those who “go to collect the rent” on the vineyard. “They know what is expected of them, but they must do it, and they do their duty”:
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“The saints are those who obey the Lord, those who worship the Lord, those who have not lost the memory of the love with which the Lord has made the vineyard: the saints in the Church. Just as the corrupt do so much harm to the Church, the saints do so much good. The apostle John says of the corrupt that they are the antichrist, that they are among us, but they are not of us. About the saints, the Word of God tells us they are like light, ‘that they will be before the throne of God in adoration.’ Today we ask the Lord for the grace to understand that we are sinners, but truly sinners, not sinners broadly, but sinners with regard to this, that, and the other thing, concrete sins, with the concreteness of sin. The grace to not become corrupt: sinners, yes; corrupt, no! And the grace to walk in the paths of holiness. So be it.”
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2013-06-04 Pope at Mass: Hypocrisy is the language of the corrupt

"Let us think closely today: What is our language? Do we speak in truth, with love, or do we speak with that social language to be polite, even say nice things, which we do not feel? Let our language be evangelical brothers and sisters! Then these hypocrites that start out with flattery, adulation and all of that, end up, through false witnesses, with accusing the very ones they had flattered. Let us ask the Lord today that our language be the language of the simple, the language of a child, the language of the children of God, the language of truth in love. "

Michael Voris must be a real “fan-boy” of this Pope. 😉
 
markomalley said:
2013-06-04 Pope at Mass: Hypocrisy is the language of the corrupt

"Let us think closely today: What is our language? Do we speak in truth, with love, or do we speak with that social language to be polite, even say nice things, which we do not feel? Let our language be evangelical brothers and sisters! Then these hypocrites that start out with flattery, adulation and all of that, end up, through false witnesses, with accusing the very ones they had flattered. Let us ask the Lord today that our language be the language of the simple, the language of a child, the language of the children of God, the language of truth in love. "

Michael Voris must be a real “fan-boy” of this Pope. 😉
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You think so? Oh I so hope and pray he is and that you are not being sarcastic.

I know I am asking myself more and more these days if I am loving God and neighbor just to be PC or am I doing it because I sincerely do genuinely love them or am I just saying I do to make myself look good while all the time I am thinking bad thoughts about them behind their back to others in a gossipy kind of way.

Some one earlier said the Pope’s homilies are like a double edged sword and I believe I am beginning to see this…

I love the way he brings children in as an example. I have no doubt in my mind that my children love me and do nice things for me out of the sincerity and genuine love they have for me in their little hearts no matter how much I mess up being their mother. I so hope and pray God never let’s them loose that genuine love and that they never reduce it to just lip service.
I knew when I first saw him on that balcony that he would help us with protecting our immortal souls…and help cut through the fogginess and confusion we put ourselves in when we do not follow Jesus with our whole heart, mind, and soul…

Lots to pray and ponder about in these homilies…

Especially about being a sinner verses being corrupt…

Thinking about it what does being corrupt actually mean?
 
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