Pope Francis' Daily Homilies

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Lucky7 said:
I understand and I will try to keep this in mind. Although I can see sharing concerns upsetting inner silence and tranquility of others, I also know that for some it does just the opposite. It helps those that are concerned realize they are not alone in their concerns. I know it helps me to hear from others.

I also think that if it isn’t a real or valid concern then those that don’t share that concern would just ignore it, provide some help, or pray for those concerned, etc (and I know you do and I thank you for that). When I have been on the other side of concerns that I disagreed with (say issues with Church teachings) it doesn’t upset my inner silence or tranquility because I am on solid footing with that. I would argue that if anyone’s inner silence is upset by any concerns shared on here it might be because some of what is being shared actually concerns them too down deep inside.

I also don’t think that getting one’s inner silence/tranquility upset is always a bad thing. Sometimes it is, but sometimes when that happens for me it can mean I need to attend to something. If a number of folks have similar concerns maybe by voicing them to one another we can then do something about them (and yes, this is where we have to do something, not just say something). Then again, there are some things we can never change.
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This is why I always say that while religious [should] live in the transcendent reality, the laity lives in the temporal reality. If each of us is true to his her vocation, our realities will overlap like Venn diagrams, but they will also have differences.

I think that you have made a very good case for this great truth that most Catholics want to reject or ignore. You’ve given a great example. For you and others in your situation, hearing concerns and grievances may be very soothing. If nothing else, it tells you that you’re not imagining things or going nuts. Right?

For us, there is nothing soothing about it at all. On the contrary. It takes away from our silence. Our lives are lived in silence, within our minds and souls and in our environment. If you were to live in the typical religious house, there is very little speaking during the day. We speak at meals, during colloquy and when necessary for work. Otherwise, we say very little to each other so as not to distract from contemplation. Expressing such concerns only serves to distract from that which is more important.

In addition, if you were formed in one of the orders where you were punished for “sharing concerns” when it is unnecessary or with those who cannot do anything to change a situation, you always live with the fear that you will be punished by God, man or both if you speak at the wrong time, to the wrong person. You bow your head in obedience and you take your concerns to those who can do something. It’s called constructive reporting. This allows you to live a very tranquil life.
McCall1981 said:
Here’s a link to Pope Francis’ Homily for today:

en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/05/10/pope_at_mass:christian_joy_far_from_simple_fun/en1-690760

It’s a good one, deals with Christian Joy, and is somewhat related to the idea of having concerns and tranquility.
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He’s saying what I said yesterday. If you just complain, but do nothing different, you’re whining. There is nothing joyful in whining.

On the other hand, the man who keeps his eyes on the Lord, experiences a special joy that the world cannot give. When he speaks about those things that he calls concerns, he’s not complaining. He’s doing as the Latin word says. He’s presenting a genuine grievance and he’s doing it for the good of the Church, not for his benefit. There is nothing holy about seeking our benefit without the neighbor. We must make sure that our expressions of concern and gratitude include the neighbor.
 
JReducation said:
This is why I always say that while religious [should] live in the transcendent reality, the laity lives in the temporal reality. If each of us is true to his her vocation, our realities will overlap like Venn diagrams, but they will also have differences.

I think that you have made a very good case for this great truth that most Catholics want to reject or ignore. You’ve given a great example. For you and others in your situation, hearing concerns and grievances may be very soothing. If nothing else, it tells you that you’re not imagining things or going nuts. Right?

For us, there is nothing soothing about it at all. On the contrary. It takes away from our silence. Our lives are lived in silence, within our minds and souls and in our environment. If you were to live in the typical religious house, there is very little speaking during the day. We speak at meals, during colloquy and when necessary for work. Otherwise, we say very little to each other so as not to distract from contemplation. Expressing such concerns only serves to distract from that which is more important.

In addition, if you were formed in one of the orders where you were punished for “sharing concerns” when it is unnecessary or with those who cannot do anything to change a situation, you always live with the fear that you will be punished by God, man or both if you speak at the wrong time, to the wrong person. You bow your head in obedience and you take your concerns to those who can do something. It’s called constructive reporting. This allows you to live a very tranquil life.

He’s saying what I said yesterday. If you just complain, but do nothing different, you’re whining. There is nothing joyful in whining.

On the other hand, the man who keeps his eyes on the Lord, experiences a special joy that the world cannot give. When he speaks about those things that he calls concerns, he’s not complaining. He’s doing as the Latin word says. He’s presenting a genuine grievance and he’s doing it for the good of the Church, not for his benefit. There is nothing holy about seeking our benefit without the neighbor. We must make sure that our expressions of concern and gratitude include the neighbor.
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And I completely respect those differences Brother Jay. I get it. Thank you for understanding my perspective. I am definitely trying to balance out the two perspectives and discerning when I am whining and when I have legitimate concerns.
 
Homily 5/11/13
Reading : ACTS 18 : 23-28
Gospel : John 16 : 23 -28
The Pope’s homily focused on the day’s Gospel reading, in which Jesus says, “*f you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you.” Discussing Jesus’ words, Pope Francis said, “There’s something new here, something that changes: it is a novelty in prayer. The Father will give us everything, but always in the name of Jesus.” The Lord ascends to the Father, enters “the heavenly Sanctuary,” opens doors and leaves them open because “He Himself is the door,” and “intercedes for us,” as priest, even, “until the end of the world”:
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He prays for us before the Father. I always liked that. Jesus, in His resurrection, had a beautiful body: the cuts of the scourging and the crown of thorns are gone, all of them. His bruises from the beatings are healed and gone. But He wanted always to keep His wounds [in His hands, His feet and His side], for those wounds are precisely His prayer of intercession to the Father. [It is as if Jesus were saying,] ‘But … look,’ … this person is asking you this thing in My name, look.’ This is the novelty that Jesus announces to us. He tells us this new thing: to trust in His passion, to trust in His victory over death, to trust in His wounds. He is the priest and this is the sacrifice: his wounds - and this gives us confidence, gives us courage to pray.”
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“Prayer to the Father in the name of Jesus brings us out of ourselves. The prayer that bores us is always within ourselves, as a thought that comes and goes. But true prayer is the turning out of ourselves [and]
to the Father in the name of Jesus: [true prayer] is an exodus from ourselves.”
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“If we are not able to move out of ourselves and toward our brother in need, to the sick, the ignorant, the poor, the exploited – if we are not able to accomplish this exodus from ourselves, and towards those wounds, we shall never learn that freedom, which carries us through that other exodus from ourselves, and toward the wounds of Jesus. There are two exits from ourselves: one to the wounds of Jesus, the other to the wounds of our brothers and sisters. And this is the way that Jesus wants [there to be] in our prayer.”
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“This,” concluded Pope Francis, “is the new way to pray: with the confidence, the courage that allows us to know that Jesus is before the Father, showing the Father His wounds, but also with the humility of those who go to learn to recognize, to find the wounds of Jesus in his needy brothers and sisters,” who, “carry the cross and still have not won, as Jesus has.”
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Homily 6/13/13
Reading ACTS 19:1 - 8
Gospel John 16 : 29-33
"A Christian without memory is not a true Christian: he or she is a prisoner of circumstance, of the moment, a man or woman who has no history. He or she does have a history, but does not how to enter into history. It is the Spirit that teaches us how to enter into history. Historical memory … When in the Letter to the Hebrews, the author says: ‘Remember your fathers in the faith’ – memory; ‘remember the early days of your faith, how you were courageous’ - memory. A memory of our life, of our history, a memory of the moment when we had the grace of meeting Jesus, the memory of all that Jesus has told us.”
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“That memory that comes from the heart, that is a grace of the Holy Spirit,” Pope Francis vigorously repeated. He said remembering, “also means remembering one’s own misery, that which makes us slaves, and together with them, the grace of God that redeems us from our miseries”:
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“And when a little vanity creeps in, when someone believes themselves to be a winner of the ‘Nobel Prize for Holiness,” then memory is also good for us: ‘But … remember where I took you from, the very least of the flock. You were behind, in the flock.’ Memory is a great grace, and when a Christian has no memory – this is a hard thing, but it’s true - he is not a Christian, he is an idolater. Because he is before a God that has no road, that does not know how to move forward on the road. Our God is moving forward on the road with us, He is among us, He walks with us. He saves us. He makes history with us. Be mindful of all that, and life becomes more fruitful, with the grace of memory.”
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“Nobel Prize for Holiness” I know some people with one of those. LOL
 
markomalley said:
From the 05-14-2013 ferverino:
*And, we must say: With Satan the payback is rotten. He always rips us off, always! *
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Love it!
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And I will add in this gem as well:

“Let us think of that moment with the Magdalene, when she washed the feet of Jesus with nard, which was so expensive: it is a religious moment, a moment of gratitude, a moment of love. And he [Judas] stands apart and criticizes her bitterly: ‘But … this could be used for the poor!’. This is the first reference that I personally found in the Gospel of poverty as an ideology. The ideologue does not know what love is, because they do not know how to gift themselves”.

I think its fantastic that he said this, particularly in light of his recent meeting with the sisters.
 
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I don’t think, and I have been around since Pope Pius XII, that I have ever heard a pope refer to Satan as much as our Pope Francis does. It is a good thing that he does make reference to him very often. Too many tend to forget that he does exist.
 
markomalley said:
A misspelling of fervorino (give me a break…I was still on cup #1 that early)

It means an exhortation. A brief, off the cuff, sermon.
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I would have the same question mark on my face, whether or not it is spelled with an “e” or an “o” but I felt too silly to ask. :o The word is not in my vocabulary.
 
Thanks! This time my Google translator popped “exhortation” right out when I gave it the corrected spelling. And that really fits better with what Pope Francis seems to be doing with his briefer daily comments.
 
Here is the 5/15/13 Mass Homily:

en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/05/15/pope_francis_at_mass:_bishops_and_priests_need_prayers_of_faithful/en1-692314

And the 5/15/13 Audience:

en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/05/15/audience:do_not_be‘part-time’_christians/en1-692235

“We live in an age rather skeptical of truth. Benedict XVI has spoken many times of relativism, that is, the tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does “the” truth really exist? What is “the” truth? Can we know it? Can we find it? Here I am reminded of the question of the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate when Jesus reveals the profound meaning of his mission: “What is truth?” (Jn 18,37.38). Pilate does not understand that “the” Truth is in front of him, he cannot see in Jesus the face of the truth, which is the face of God yet, Jesus is just that: the Truth, which, in the fullness of time, “became flesh” (Jn 1,1.14), came among us so that we may know it. You cannot grab the truth as if it were an object, you encounter it. It is not a possession, is an encounter with a Person.”
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“The Holy Spirit, then, as Jesus promises, guides us “into all truth” (Jn 16:13) he leads us not only to an encounter with Jesus, the fullness of Truth, but guides us “into” the Truth, that is, he helps us enter into a deeper communion with Jesus himself, gifting us knowledge of the things of God. We cannot achieve this on our own strengths. If God does not enlightens us interiorly, our being Christians will be superficial. The Tradition of the Church affirms that the Spirit of truth acts in our hearts, provoking that “sense of faith” (sensus fidei), through which, as the Second Vatican Council affirms, the People of God, under the guidance of the Magisterium, adheres unwaveringly to the faith given once and for all to the saints,(113) penetrates it more deeply with right thinking, and applies it more fully in its life (cf. Dogmatic Constitution. Lumen gentium, 12).”
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“Do not be a ‘part-time” Christian, at certain moments, in certain circumstances, in certain choices, be Christian at all times!”
 
I love this from today’s Daily Mass
So , the Pope observes, “when a priest, a bishop goes after money, the people do not love him – and that’s a sign. But he ends badly.” St. Paul reminds us that he worked with his hands. “He did not have a bank account, he worked, and when a bishop, a priest goes on the road to vanity, he enters into the spirit of careerism – and this hurts the Church very much – [and] ends up being ridiculous: he boasts, he is pleased to be seen, all powerful – and the people do not like that!” “Pray for us,” the Pope repeated, “that we might be poor, that we might be humble, meek, in the service of the people.” Finally, he suggested to the faithful that they read Acts 20:28-30, where Paul says, “Take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. I know that, after my departure, ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.":
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“Read this fine passage, and while reading it, pray, pray for us bishops and priests. We have such need in order to stay faithful, to be men who watch over the flock and also over ourselves, who make the vigil their own, that their heart be always turned to [the Lord’s] flock. [Pray] also that the Lord might defend us from temptation, because if we go on the road to riches, if we go on the road to vanity, we become wolves and not shepherds. Pray for this, read this and pray. So be it.”
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ACTS 20:28-30:
Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you overseers,* in which you tend the church of God that he acquired with his own blood.
I know that after my departure savage wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock.
And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
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TimothyH said:
Has anyone gotten that link to work?

I logged in using my google account, clicked on the image of a printed page and a white page comes up but with no text.

Has this worked for anyone at all?

-Tim-
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When the white page comes up, there will be little magnifying glass symbols on the right side of the page, just click on either one of them and you should see the text, or at least that’s how it works for me
 
5/16: An Apostolic Nuisance

…There are backseat Christians, right? Those who are well mannered, who do everything well, but are unable to bring people to the Church through proclamation and Apostolic zeal. Today we can ask the Holy Spirit to give us all this Apostolic fervor and to give us the grace to be annoying when thin are too quiet in the Church the grace to go out to the outskirts of life. The Church has so much need of this! Not only in distant lands, in the young churches, among people who do not know Jesus Christ, but here in the cities, in our cities, they need this proclamation of Jesus Christ. So let us ask the Holy Spirit for this grace of Apostolic zeal, let’s be Christians with apostolic zeal. And if we annoy people, blessed be the Lord. Onwards, as the Lord says to Paul, ‘take courage!’
Sounds like he is not a fan of the “Church of Nice”
 
I found this part to be the key to understanding the rest
Pope Francis continued, this is what pushes Paul to keep going, “to always proclaim Jesus”. "He was always in trouble, not in trouble for troubles’ sake, but for Jesus, proclaiming Jesus “this is the consequence”. Apostolic zeal, the Pope stressed, can only be understood “in an atmosphere of love.” Apostolic zeal, implies "an element of madness, but of spiritual madness, of healthy madness”. Paul “had this healthy madness.”
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It amazes me and fills me with sadness how annoying the ones who have such a great zeal to share God’s Love and compassion and understanding with others can be to some and then are attached for it. They are so annoying they get attached and called “nice” like it is a bad thing or something. Take heart all you " nice" people and pray with Pope Francis that the Holy Spirit fill you with the Apostolic Zeal and may you hear with St.Paul, “take courage” no matter how annoyed people are with you and no matter how much they want to twist and persecute your “niceness” into a " bad" thing.
 
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