Pope Francis' Daily Homilies

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Marie5890 said:
I do understand that, at the surface level, Pope Francis’ homilies give mixed messages and confuses people. And I understand the need for context.

And what makes it even more of a challenge is this. Most people are not going to go and study Ignatiousian or the Jesuit order, or even Franciscan (sp?) spirituality in order to try and understand him, Catholic or otherwise

Most people either 1) dont have that deep of an interest and 2) the time.

Im leaning towards the style of Pope Francis is going to cause confusion, though I expect that certainly is not his intent.

Not sure how helpful, in the long term, his style will be?
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I think you’re absolutely right. I fear that this controversy the past week over redemption/salvation is only the begining.
clem456 said:
I have seen nothing of mixed messages or confusion on his part. More accurately, the Pope’s homilies challenge people. Each person is responsible for listening, praying, reflecting, learning, trusting, and accepting his messages for what they are, not what we’d like them to be, or what we understand them to be.
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There has been lots of confusion. Just this past week we had national headlines saying the Pope declared universal salvation for atheists. Look at all the threads that appeared just here on CAF, a lot of people were deeply confused.

So as to stay on topic, I appreciate the Popes reference to Mother Teresa today, I think she is definitely mistepresented by the world.
 
McCall1981 said:
I think you’re absolutely right. I fear that this controversy the past week over redemption/salvation is only the begining.

There has been lots of confusion. Just this past week we had national headlines saying the Pope declared universal salvation for atheists. Look at all the threads that appeared just here on CAF, a lot of people were deeply confused.

So as to stay on topic, I appreciate the Popes reference to Mother Teresa today, I think she is definitely mistepresented by the world.
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I agree with you there is confusion. Confusion is nothing new.
What I was saying is there are no mixed messages or confusion on the part of the Pope. Confusion can’t be blamed on the Pope any more than you or I. His message is clear.
 
Marie5890 said:
I do understand that, at the surface level, Pope Francis’ homilies give mixed messages and confuses people. And I understand the need for context.

And what makes it even more of a challenge is this. Most people are not going to go and study Ignatiousian or the Jesuit order, or even Franciscan (sp?) spirituality in order to try and understand him, Catholic or otherwise

Most people either 1) dont have that deep of an interest and 2) the time.

Im leaning towards the style of Pope Francis is going to cause confusion, though I expect that certainly is not his intent.

Not sure how helpful, in the long term, his style will be?
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AndyP2010 said:
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Agree:)
He is knitting this blanket “stitch by stitch”.
If only I could put 1% of what he says into practice…this is my real daily struggle:blush:
I personally loved the one about prayer and the man who stayed praying for his daughter all night at the closed shrine.Luján is a place of pilgrimage.I wish I could have that faith.Guess I need more prayer!]()
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clem456 said:
I have seen nothing of mixed messages or confusion on his part. More accurately, the Pope’s homilies challenge people. Each person is responsible for listening, praying, reflecting, learning, trusting, and accepting his messages for what they are, not what we’d like them to be, or what we understand them to be.
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Rightly or wrongly, people are getting confused. And most are simply not interested or have the time to dig deeper.
 
If people are confused, it isn’t because of anything the Pope is saying. If you ask me, there a lot of people who are allowing themselves to be deceived by our enemy. They are then unwittingly (or not) spreading confusion. There are a lot of people reading these homilies out of context. They are going straight to them without reading the daily Mass readings and Gospel to allow the Word to speak to them through the Holy Spirit and are approaching them unprepared. Also one must be aware that not all of the thoughts that come to your mind are your own. The enemy will not miss an opportunity to convince you that a truth that is simple and or clear is difficult and confusing. Also the more important the message the more he wants you to be confused, to fall into despair and lose hope. How many of us in recent days who rather than focus on what the Holy Father has tried to teach us, have focused on fear instead. What was the talk about after all, how Christians can encounter unbelievers in the act of doing good. The opportunity to reach out to our fellow man, to plant seeds that could lead to conversion. Can you not imagine how the enemy wanted to stop that message from going forward. Be on guard.
 
Homily 5/29/13
Reading Sirach 36 :1, 4-5, 10-17
Gospel Mark 10 : 32 - 45
"Triumphalism in the Church, impedes the Church. Triumphalism among Christians, impedes Christians. A triumphalist, half-way Church that is a Church that is content with what it is or has, well sorted – well organized - with all its offices, everything in order, everything perfect no? Efficient. But a Church that denies its martyrs, because it does not know that martyrs are needed for Churches’ the journey towards the Cross. A Church that only thinks about triumphs, successes, does not know that rule of Jesus: the rule of triumph through failure, human failure, the failure of the Cross. And this is a temptation that we all have”.
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The Pope, then, recalled a special episode in his life:
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"I remember once, I was in a dark moment in my spiritual life and I asked a favor from the Lord. Then I went to preach the annual spiritual retreat to nuns and on the last day the made their confession. One elderly nun, over 80 years of age, but with clear, bright eyes came to confession: she was a woman of God. In the end I saw that she really was a woman of God so I said ‘ Sister, as penance, pray for me, because I need a grace, ok? If you asks the Lord for this grace on my behalf, I am sure to receive it’. She stopped for a moment, as if in prayer, and said, 'Of course the Lord will grant you this grace, but do not be deceived: in His own divine manner’. This did me a lot of good. To hear that the Lord always gives us what we ask for, but in His own divine way. And this is the divine way to the very end. The divine way involves the Cross, not out of masochism: no, no! Out of love. For love to the very end”.
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Note : For the second day in a row the Holy Father has placed emphasis on the Cross.

Wednesday General Audience
Today the first: the Church as Family of God
In recent months, more than once I have made reference to the parable of the prodigal son, or rather of the merciful father (cf. Lk 15:11-32). The youngest son leaves the house of his father, squanders everything, and decides to return because he realizes he made a mistake, though he no longer considers himself worthy of sonship. He thinks he might be welcomed back as a servant. Instead, the father runs to meet him, embraces him, gives him back his dignity as a son, and celebrates. This parable, like others in the Gospel, shows well the design of God for humanity.
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What is this God’s plan? It is to make us all the one family of his children, in which each of you feels close to Him and feels loved by Him – feels, as in the Gospel parable, the warmth of being the family of God. In this great design, the Church finds its source. [The Church is] is not an organization founded by an agreement among [a group of] persons, but - as we were reminded many times by Pope Benedict XVI - is the work of God: it was born out of the plan of love, which realises itself progressively in history. The Church is born from the desire of God to call all people into communion with Him, to His friendship, and indeed, as His children, to partake of His own divine life. The very word “Church”, from the Greek ekklesia, means “convocation”.
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God calls us, urges us to escape from individualism, [from] the tendency to withdraw into ourselves, and calls us – convokes us – to be a part of His family. This convocation has its origin in creation itself. God created us in order that we might live in a relationship of deep friendship with Him, and even when sin had broken this relationship with God, with others and with creation, God did not abandon us.
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Read the whole thing the full text is available through the link.
 
AndyP2010 said:
Homily 5/29/13
Reading Sirach 36 :1, 4-5, 10-17
Gospel Mark 10 : 32 - 45

Note : For the second day in a row the Holy Father has placed emphasis on the Cross.

Wednesday General Audience

Read the whole thing the full text is available through the link.
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This Pope is calling his flock out in talk after talk. These talks are a direct challenge to the status quo in each of us. A call to come out of the comfort zone and be continually converted. It seems to me that these talks are aimed directly at Catholics, not at atheists etc…even though others are mentioned.
 
These are his prayer and mission intentions for June. I thought we may want to join our Pope in prayer as we go through his daily homilies. I think that this is in his heart as he speaksJust sharing:

news.va/en/news/popes-prayer-intentions-for-june

Pope’s Prayer Intentions for June
Vatican City, 31 May 2013 (VIS) - The Pope’s general prayer intention for June is: “That a culture of dialogue, listening, and mutual respect may prevail among peoples.”

His mission intention is: “That where secularization is strongest, Christian communities may effectively promote a new evangelization.”
 
clem456 said:
I agree with you there is confusion. Confusion is nothing new.
What I was saying is there are no mixed messages or confusion on the part of the Pope. Confusion can’t be blamed on the Pope any more than you or I. His message is clear.
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Are you saying that the Pope (any Pope) can NEVER be blamed for saying things that are confusing?
 
graciew said:
His mission intention is: “That where secularization is strongest, Christian communities may effectively promote a new evangelization.”
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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).
 
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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I do not understand what you are saying. Sincerely.Sorry.
About this part:
 
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?
 
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.”?
 
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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I had to laugh at your mirror comment. Not because I disagree with it but because it reminded me of something I have come to the understanding of. I truly do believe the reason God gives us children is so that He can use them as a mirror to hold up in our faces. Anyway it’s how I see how He uses my children to get me to look deeper into myself to see what I am doing wrong…like the bad habits they pick up…or where that temper came from and why do they throw it the way they do…

Anyway yes I agree. I find myself taking his homilies like he is speaking to me directly…
 
graciew said:
These are his prayer and mission intentions for June. I thought we may want to join our Pope in prayer as we go through his daily homilies. I think that this is in his heart as he speaksJust sharing:

news.va/en/news/popes-prayer-intentions-for-june

Pope’s Prayer Intentions for June
Vatican City, 31 May 2013 (VIS) - The Pope’s general prayer intention for June is: “That a culture of dialogue, listening, and mutual respect may prevail among peoples.”

His mission intention is: “That where secularization is strongest, Christian communities may effectively promote a new evangelization.”
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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
The first of these events, the Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration, will be broadcast from St. Peter’s Basilica next Sunday, 2 June from 5:00pm-6:00pm local time. Its theme is: “One Lord, One Faith”, which was chosen to testify to the deep unity that characterizes it. “It will be an event,” Archbishop Fisichella explained, “occurring for the first time in the history of the Church, which is why we can describe it as ‘historical’. The cathedrals of the world will be synchronized with Rome and will, for an hour, be in communion with the Pope in Eucharistic adoration. There has been an incredible response to this initiative, going beyond the cathedrals and involving episcopal conferences, parishes, lay associations, and religious congregations, especially cloistered ones.”
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Pope Francis’ second intention is: “For those around the world who still suffer slavery and who are victims of war, human trafficking, drug running, and slave labour. For the children and women who are suffering from every type of violence. May their silent scream for help be heard by a vigilant Church so that, gazing upon the crucified Christ, she may not forget the many brothers and sisters who are left at the mercy of violence. Also, for all those who find themselves in economically precarious situations, above all for the unemployed, the elderly, migrants, the homeless, prisoners, and those who experience marginalization. That the Church’s prayer and its active nearness give them comfort and assistance in hope and strength and courage in defending human dignity.”
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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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