Pope Francis' Daily Homilies

  • Thread starter Thread starter McCall1981
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
M

McCall1981

Guest
This thread is an off-shoot of the other Pope Francis thread and is intended to discuss his daily homilies. Here are some articles on past daily homilies for those interested:

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=7499 (No room for self promoters, 4/22/13)

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=7498 (Taking risks, 4/22/2013)

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=7508 (Jesus not found outside the Church, 4/23/13)

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=7515 (Final Judgement, 4/24/13)

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=7518 (Church is a love story, 4/24/13)

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=7524 (Church must evangelize humbly, 4/25/13)

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=7532 (Journey of preparation, 4/26/13)

en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/04/28/pope_francis:_remain_steadfast_in_the_journey_of_faith/en1-687179 (Journey of Faith, 4/28/13)

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=7545 (Confession is not a dry cleaner, 4/29/13)

en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/04/29/pope:_shame_is_a_true_christian_virtue/en1-687330 (Shame is a Christian virtue, 4/29/13)

en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/04/30/pope:_a_worldly_church_cannot_transmit_the_gospel/en1-687655 (Worldly Church, 4/30/13)

Also, here is a good link on the Vatican’s website with Pope Francis’ Homilies, Messages, etc:

vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/index.htm

If anyone has links to any homilies before the ones above, please feel free to post them. Perhaps this thread can be a central location to post links to future homilies as well 🙂
 
I have loved all of them, but my favorite is the one on confession. The idea that confession is an act of worship to a God of mercy is one that we don’t hear enough about.
 
Thanks, I will look into listing the daily scripture reading for those days. Also we could note the vatican employees that were invited to attend. The vatican bank employees were on hand for the Mass of 4/24. That would give the full context. I love the one on taking risks as well.
 
JReducation said:
I have loved all of them, but my favorite is the one on confession. The idea that confession is an act of worship to a God of mercy is one that we don’t hear enough about.
Click to expand...
I also appreciate this concept of confession as an act of worship to a God of mercy who is constantly present to us and I have often wondered why this sacrament, so beautiful and healing in so many ways, is often approached with fear and trepidation. I have found that fear is almost always an evil spirit which prevents us from fully becoming present to God, and yet, I also approach this healing sacrament with a fear that puzzles me. The Holy Father’s words concerning reconciliation have encouraged me and I hope to change this unrealistic fear into joy very soon.
 
JReducation said:
I have loved all of them, but my favorite is the one on confession. The idea that confession is an act of worship to a God of mercy is one that we don’t hear enough about.
Click to expand...
Brother, which homily please? Thank you!
 
quiet52 said:
Brother, which homily please? Thank you!
Click to expand...
I believe he’s referring to the 4/29/13 one:

en.radiovaticana.va/m_articolo.asp?c=687330

"Humility and meekness are like the frame of a Christian life. A Christian must always be so, humble and meek. And Jesus waits for us to forgive us.** We can ask Him a question: Is going to confession like to a torture session? No! It is going to praise God, because I, a sinner , have been saved by Him**. And is He waiting for me to beat me? No, with tenderness to forgive me. And if tomorrow I do the same? Go again, and go and go and go … He always waits for us. This tenderness of the Lord, this humility, this meekness … "

Br.JR please correct me if Im wrong here
 
I think that brother is talking about the homily for 4/29/13
"Humility and meekness are like the frame of a Christian life. A Christian must always be so, humble and meek. And Jesus waits for us to forgive us. We can ask Him a question: Is going to confession like to a torture session? No! It is going to praise God, because I, a sinner , have been saved by Him. And is He waiting for me to beat me? No, with tenderness to forgive me. And if tomorrow I do the same? Go again, and go and go and go … He always waits for us. This tenderness of the Lord, this humility, this meekness … "
Click to expand...
 
Great thread. For some reason I feel really drawn to this Pope and have been reading his daily homilies as it is. I am glad to see an effort like this.

Thanks
 
JReducation said:
I have loved all of them, but my favorite is the one on confession. The idea that confession is an act of worship to a God of mercy is one that we don’t hear enough about.
Click to expand...
It is interesting that the Catechism lists confession/reconcilliation under the heading of “Sacraments of Healing”.

***PART TWO
THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

SECTION TWO
THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH

CHAPTER TWO
THE SACRAMENTS OF HEALING

1420 Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, man receives the new life of Christ. Now we carry this life “in earthen vessels,” and it remains “hidden with Christ in God.” We are still in our “earthly tent,” subject to suffering, illness, and death. This new life as a child of God can be weakened and even lost by sin.

1421 The Lord Jesus Christ, physician of our souls and bodies, who forgave the sins of the paralytic and restored him to bodily health, has willed that his Church continue, in the power of the Holy Spirit, his work of healing and salvation, even among her own members. This is the purpose of the two sacraments of healing: the sacrament of Penance and the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.** *

-Tim-
 
Today we have a twofer as today we also have the Wednesday audience.

Daily Mass homily 5/1/13

Todays guest : children and single mothers who are guests at the “Il Ponte” center for solidarity based in the port town of Civitavecchia north of Rome. Mass was concelebrated by the man who founded and runs the center for these families in need, Fr. Egidio Smacchia.
"Not paying a just [wage], not providing work, focusing exclusively on the balance books, on financial statements, only looking at making personal profit. That goes against God! How many times – how many times – have we read in ‘L’Osservatore Romano’ … A headline that impressed me so much the day of the Bangladesh tragedy, ‘Living on 38 euros a month’: this was the payment of these people who have died … And this is called ‘slave labor!’. And today in this world there is slavery that is made with the most beautiful gift that God has given to man: the ability to create, to work, to be the makers of our own dignity. How many brothers and sisters throughout the world are in this situation because of these, economic, social, political attitudes and so on … ".
Click to expand...
This is much more hard hitting than his remarks he had at the Wednesday audience.

Wednesday audience this has the full text. He also calls for praying the rosary.
And in this month of May, I would like to recall the importance and beauty of the prayer of the Holy Rosary. Reciting the Hail Mary, we are led to contemplate the mysteries of Jesus, that is, to reflect on the key moments of his life, so that, as with Mary and St. Joseph, He is the center of our thoughts, of our attention and our actions . It would be nice if, especially in this month of May, we could pray the Holy Rosary together in the family, with friends, in the parish, or some prayer to Jesus and the Virgin Mary! Praying together is a precious moment that further strengthens family life, friendship! Let us learn to pray more in the family and as a family!
Dear brothers and sisters, we ask Saint Joseph and the Virgin Mary, who teach us to be faithful to our daily tasks, to live our faith in the actions of everyday life and to give more space to the Lord in our lives, to stop to contemplate His face.
Click to expand...
 
AndyP2010 said:
I think that brother is talking about the homily for 4/29/13
Click to expand...
That’s the one. I don’t have them in my mind by dates, only by themes. LOL
TimothyH said:
It is interesting that the Catechism lists confession/reconcilliation under the heading of “Sacraments of Healing”.

***PART TWO
THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

SECTION TWO
THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH

CHAPTER TWO
THE SACRAMENTS OF HEALING

1420 Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, man receives the new life of Christ. Now we carry this life “in earthen vessels,” and it remains “hidden with Christ in God.” We are still in our “earthly tent,” subject to suffering, illness, and death. This new life as a child of God can be weakened and even lost by sin.

1421 The Lord Jesus Christ, physician of our souls and bodies, who forgave the sins of the paralytic and restored him to bodily health, has willed that his Church continue, in the power of the Holy Spirit, his work of healing and salvation, even among her own members. This is the purpose of the two sacraments of healing: the sacrament of Penance and the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.***

-Tim-
Click to expand...
I can testify to this being true. 😃
AndyP2010 said:
Today we have a twofer as today we also have the Wednesday audience.

Daily Mass homily 5/1/13

Todays guest : children and single mothers who are guests at the “Il Ponte” center for solidarity based in the port town of Civitavecchia north of Rome. Mass was concelebrated by the man who founded and runs the center for these families in need, Fr. Egidio Smacchia.

This is much more hard hitting than his remarks he had at the Wednesday audience.

Wednesday audience this has the full text. He also calls for praying the rosary.
Click to expand...
His Holiness is much more traditional than people expected. He is a good man.
 
May 2, 2013 homily.
In attendance: Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige, the Archbishop of Colombo Sri Lanka, and staff from the Vatican Museums.
Reading : ACTS 15:7-21
Gospel : John 15: 9-11
"A community of’ yes’ and ‘no’ are a result of this’ yes’. We ask the Lord that the Holy Spirit help us always to become a community of love, of love for Jesus who loved us so much. A community of this ‘yes’. And from this ‘yes’ the commandments are fulfilled. A community of open doors. And it defends us from the temptation to become perhaps Puritans, in the etymological sense of the word, to seek a para-evangelical purity, from being a community of ‘no’. Because Jesus ask us first for love, love for Him, and to remain in His love. "
Click to expand...
Pope Francis concluded: this is “when a Christian community lives in love, confesses its sins, worships the Lord, forgives offenses, is charitable towards others and manifests love” and thus “feels the obligation of fidelity to the Lord to observe the commandments.”
Click to expand...
 
Today’s Homily was on lukewarm Christians and belief in the Resurrection:

en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/05/03/pope:_lukewarm_christians_hurt_the_church/en1-688586

“In his homily which focused on the readings of the day, Pope Francis said all Christians who have received the gift of faith must pass this gift on by proclaiming it with our lives, with our word. But, the Pope questioned, “what is this fundamental faith? It is faith in the Risen Jesus, in Jesus who has forgiven our sins through His death and reconciled us with the Father”:

“Transmitting this requires us to be courageous: the courage of transmitting the faith. A sometimes simple courage. I remember - excuse me - a personal story: as a child every Good Friday my grandmother took us to the Procession of Candles and at the end of the procession came the recumbent Christ and my grandmother made us kneel down and told us children, 'Look he is dead, but tomorrow he will be Risen! '. That is how the faith entered: faith in Christ Crucified and Risen. In the history of the Church there have been many, many people who have wanted to blur this strong certainty and speak of a spiritual resurrection. No, Christ is alive”.”
 
Will they ever post the full texts and not just little snippets distilled through news reports? Surely our Holy Father’s words can speak for themselves.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top