Pope Francis' Daily Homilies

[ccmcmg]

I love the way he uses this scripture and puts the emphasis on sharing…with each passing day, I become more and more enamored with the Spirit for placing this man as Pope. I am so thrilled with the way this Pope is setting priorities.

“Here’s the miracle, that it is more a sharing than a multiplying, animated from faith and prayer,”said the Pope.

catholicnewsagency.com/news/faith-requires-sharing-pope-teaches/#.Uavu5MkeLnU.email

I love it when Scripture is referenced during the homily.

 

[AndyP2010]

"Hypocrisy is the very language of corruption. And when Jesus speaks to his disciples, he says: ‘let your language be,’ Yes, yes! No, no '. Hypocrisy is not a language of truth, because the truth is never given alone. Never! It is always given with love! There is no truth without love. Love is the first truth. If there is no love, there is no truth. They want a true enslaved to their interests. There is a love, of sorts: it is love of self, love for oneself. That narcissist idolatry that leads them to betray others, that leads them to abuse of trust. "

I love this in particular “*Hypocrisy is not a language of truth, because the truth is never given alone. Never! It is always given with love! *”

oh, and I am sorry but Pope Francis makes Voris sound mealy mouthed.

 

[markomalley]

Thinking about it what does being corrupt actually mean?

I believe it means being in sin but not caring one way or the other about it (not being ashamed of sin).

On 5/17, the Holy Father said:
“Peter was saddened that, for a third time, Jesus asked him, “Do you love me?” This pain, this shame – a great man, this Peter – [and] a sinner, a sinner. The Lord makes him feel that he is a sinner – makes us all feel that we are sinners. The problem is not that we are sinners: the problem is not repenting of sin, not being ashamed of what we have done. That’s the problem.

(snip)

“Peter was a sinner, but not corrupt, eh? Sinners, yes, everyone: corrupt, no.
And then yesterday, 6/3, he said:
“These, slowly, slipped on that autonomy, that independence in their relationship with God: ‘We don’t need that Master, who shouldn’t come and disturb us!’ And we go forward with this. These are the corrupt! These were sinners like all of us, but they have taken a step beyond that, as if they were confirmed in their sin: they don’t need God! But it only seems so, for in their genetic code there is this relationship with God. And since they can’t deny this, they make a special god: they themselves are god. They are corrupt.”

“This is a danger for us, too,” he added. In the “Christian communities,” he said, the corrupt think only of their own group: “Good, good. It’s about us - they think - but, in fact, ‘they are only out for themselves”:

“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.”
I think the term recalcitrant or reprobate would also apply.

 

[simple_soul]

I believe it means being in sin but not caring one way or the other about it (not being ashamed of sin).

On 5/17, the Holy Father said:
“Peter was saddened that, for a third time, Jesus asked him, “Do you love me?” This pain, this shame – pa great man, this Peter – [and] a sinner, a sinner. The Lord makes him feel that he is a sinner – makes us all feel that we are sinners. The problem is not that we are sinners: the problem is not repenting of sin, not being ashamed of what we have done. That’s the problem.

(snip)

“Peter was a sinner, but not corrupt, eh? Sinners, yes, everyone: corrupt, no.
And then yesterday, 6/3, he said:
“These, slowly, slipped on that autonomy, that independence in their relationship with God: ‘We don’t need that Master, who shouldn’t come and disturb us!’ And we go forward with this. These are the corrupt! These were sinners like all of us, but they have taken a step beyond that, as if they were confirmed in their sin: they don’t need God! But it only seems so, for in their genetic code there is this relationship with God. And since they can’t deny this, they make a special god: they themselves are god. They are corrupt.”

“This is a danger for us, too,” he added. In the “Christian communities,” he said, the corrupt think only of their own group: “Good, good. It’s about us - they think - but, in fact, ‘they are only out for themselves”:

“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.”
I think the term recalcitrant or reprobate would also apply.

I’ve been thinking about this…
I was kind of struck by the part that I emphasized. So I looked up corrupt earlier and I am wondering…and to me he is saying that the corrupt do not remember the Love that The Lord had in creating the vineyard. The corrupt have a corrupt understanding of what God 's Love is. They do not have a personal relationship with Him because they are too wrapped up in themselves and what they want God’s Love to be.
Now I am being reminded of how I have seen people use hate, anger and antagonism in a way of badgering or berating and demonizing and belittling of others all in the name of charity/Love.

Would this be a corrupt understanding of God’s Love or the Love of The Lord in how He created the vineyard? Or is this a correct understanding of The Lord’s Love in how He created the vineyard and my understanding is the corrupt one?

 

[AndyP2010]

Homily 06/05/2013
Reading Tobit 3:1-11, 16-17
Gospel Mark 12 18-27

“The Sadducees were talking about this woman as if she were a laboratory, all aseptic - hers was an [abstract] moral [problem]. When we think of the people who suffer so much, do we think of them as though they were an [abstract moral conundrum], pure ideas, ‘but in this case … this case …’, or do we think about them with our hearts, with our flesh, too? I do not like it when people speak about tough situations in an academic and not a human manner, sometimes with statistics … and that’s it. In the Church there are many people in this situation.”

The Pope said that in these cases, we must do what Jesus says, pray:

“Pray for them. They must come into my heart, they must be a [cause of] restlessness for me: my brother is suffering, my sister suffers. Here [is] the mystery of the communion of saints: pray to the Lord, ‘But, Lord, look at that person: he cries, he is suffering. Pray, let me say, with the flesh: that our flesh pray. Not with ideas. Praying with the heart.”

And the prayers of Tobit and Sarah, which they offer up to the Lord even despite their asking to die, give us hope, because they are accepted by God in His own way, who does not let them die, but heals Tobit and finally gives a husband to Sara. Prayer, he explained, always reaches God, [so long as] it is prayer from the heart.” Instead, “when it is [an abstract exercise], such as that the Sadducees were discussing, never reaches him, because it never goes out of ourselves: we do not care. It is an intellectual game.” In conclusion, Pope Francis called on the faithful to pray for those who live dramatic situations and who suffer as much as Jesus on the cross, who cry, “Father, Father, why have you forsaken me?” Let us pray - he concluded – “so that our prayer reaches [heaven] and let it be [a source of] hope for all of us.”

 

[Lormar]

Here it is.

 

[graciew]

and my understanding is the corrupt one?

I would not say your understanding is “corrupt”,Simple Soul… Maybe we are wrong,maybe we are right,but we are searching,aren´t we? I think that corrupt means the heart is closed to some extent and we have settled with the darkness.So we see sin there no more. Corruption starts in the heart,I think…and extends to other areas.
What do you think?

 

[markomalley]

2013-06-06 Pope at Mass: The subtle danger of idolatry (VR)

"And loyalty demands we drive out our idols, that we uncover them: they are hidden in our personality, in our way of life. But these are hidden idols mean that we are not faithful in love. The Apostle James, when he says, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God, begins by saying: ‘Adulterers!’. He gives out to us, but with that adjective: adulterers. Why? Because whoever is ‘friend’ of the world is an idolater, is not faithful to the love of God! The path that is not distant, that advances, moves forward in the Kingdom of God, is a path of loyalty which resembles that of married love. "

That’s true, we all have hidden idols that must be rooted out.

 

[simple_soul]

I would not say your understanding is “corrupt”,Simple Soul… Maybe we are wrong,maybe we are right,but we are searching,aren´t we? I think that corrupt means the heart is closed to some extent and we have settled with the darkness.So we see sin there no more. Corruption starts in the heart,I think…and extends to other areas.
What do you think?

Hhhmm what do I think? Well I beleive I understand better now why Pope Francis has been emphasizing our needing to open ourselves up. We need to keep our hearts open other wise they will become hardened in sin and we won’t even be able to tell that we are in sin because we have become so corrupt. Kind of scary when you stop to think about it. Can you imagin being so wrapped up in sin that you think it is actually virtue and that virtue is actually sin? It’s like you get so lost that you are saying black is white and white is black.
So yes I agree with you that we should be searching and keeping our hearts open but we have to stop twisting things all around inside of ourselves other wise we get wrapped up in ourselves and can’t see what Truth really is. It is like we have perverted the Truth and we take sacred scripture and Church Teachings to try and confirm this twisted understanding. I was raised in a way that this is like second nature. Only thing is I beleive I tend to untwist what some people tell me but then I am left with questioning myself if what I am understanding the Pope and the Magesterium of the Church to be teaching me is just me twisting things to my understanding. So yes it is a constant searching for me. So maybe there is hope for me yet that I am not so corrupt that God Will eventually let the dawn of seeing if what I beleive is truth or not. Sometimes I am so sure and other times I am so filled with the thought that I have tricked myself into beleiving black is actually white and white is actually black. So I am left with just keeping my heart open to the understanding that I may or may not be seeing or understanding things clearly and Hope, Pray, and Trust that God will some day let it dawn in me so profoundly that it will take all of my doubts and worries away and that I will accept what the Fullness of His Truth no matter how much I miss understood it or did not miss understand it.
Anyway this is what I think sorry to just ramble on about it but I hope and pray it made some sense…

 

[simple_soul]

2013-06-06 Pope at Mass: The subtle danger of idolatry (VR)

"And loyalty demands we drive out our idols, that we uncover them: they are hidden in our personality, in our way of life. But these are hidden idols mean that we are not faithful in love. The Apostle James, when he says, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God, begins by saying: ‘Adulterers!’. He gives out to us, but with that adjective: adulterers. Why? Because whoever is ‘friend’ of the world is an idolater, is not faithful to the love of God! The path that is not distant, that advances, moves forward in the Kingdom of God, is a path of loyalty which resembles that of married love. "

That’s true, we all have hidden idols that must be rooted out.

I so agree. It is like every time I am given the Grace to see one and start working to uproot it I get the hint of others that I have to start working at digging up and uprooting too.

 

[graciew]

Yes,it does make sense to me.
A priest we had for 10 years taught us “I hear,I practice”. Like prayer and action keep water flowing,it isn´t stagnant any more,it stops stinking I guess.
Hope is there,Jesus is risen
Thank you.

 

[markomalley]

2013-06-17 Pope at Mass: The science of tenderness

*"This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to love Him! The best way to love Him in return is to open our hearts and let Him love us. Let Him draw close to us and feel Him close to us. This is really very difficult: letting ourselves be loved by Him. And that is perhaps what we need to ask today in the Mass: 'Lord, I want to love You, but teach me the difficult science, the difficult habit of let ting myself be loved by You, to feel You close and feel Your tenderness ! May the Lord give us this grace. "
*

 

[AndyP2010]

Questions and answer with children from Jesuit run schools in Italy and Albania.

One of them asked him why he had chosen to live in Saint Martha’s House instead of the Papal Apartments in the Apostolic Palace.

“I can’t live alone, do you understand?” he remarked. “It’s not a question of my personal virtue, it’s just that I can’t live alone.”

“A professor asked me this question, ‘why don’t you go live there?’ and I answered, ‘listen, professor, it’s for psychiatric reasons’ because that’s my personality,” the Pope said.

Transcript of Speech made to Children read it in full. The prepared speech was five pages long. The Pope of course decided it was boring and went “off the cuff”.

Note: Summer the Schedule for the Pope is out. There will be a break in the daily Masses at the Domus starting in July that will last till September The Vatican press office must be doing backflips. Pope Francis being who he is will probably find some other way to drive everyone crazy. He will be staying at the Vatican.

 

[markomalley]

2013-06-08 Pope at Mass: Learning from Mary to keep the Word of God (VR)

"We would do well to ask ourselves: ‘With the things that happen in life, I ask myself the question: what is the Lord saying to me with His Word, right now?’. This is called keeping the Word of God, because the Word of God is precisely the message that the Lord gives us in every moment. Let us safeguard it with this: safeguard it with our memory. And safeguard it with our hope. We ask the Lord for the grace to receive the Word of God and keep it, and also the grace to have a heart that is fatigued in this effort. So be it. "

 

[markomalley]

2013-06-10 Pope at Mass: Christian consolation and the law of the truly free

"Today we can now ask the Lord for the grace to follow Him, but with this freedom. Because if we want to follow him with our human freedom alone, in the end we become hypocrites like the Pharisees and Sadducees, those who quarreled with him. This is hypocrisy: not allowing the Spirit to change our hearts with His salvation. The freedom of the Spirit, which the Spirit gives us, is also a kind of slavery, of being ‘enslaved’ to the Lord which makes us free, it is another freedom. Instead, our freedom is only slavery, but not to the Lord, but to the spirit of the world. Let us ask for the grace to open our hearts to the consolation of the Holy Spirit, so that this consolation, which is salvation, allows us to understand these commandments. So be it! "

 

[markomalley]

2013-06-11 Pope at Mass: Poverty and praise of God

“Evangelical preaching flows from gratuitousness, from the wonder of the salvation that comes and that which I have freely received I must freely give. This is what they were like at the beginning. St. Peter did not have a bank account, and when he had to pay taxes, the Lord sent him to the sea to catch fish and find the money in the fish, to pay. Philip, when he met Queen Candace’s finance minister, did not think, ‘Ah, good, let’s set up an organization to support the Gospel …’ No! He did not strike a ‘deal’ with him: he preached, baptized and left”.

(snip)

“Everything is grace. Everything. And what are the signs of when an apostle lives this gratuity? There are so many, but I will underline only two: First, poverty. The proclamation of the Gospel must follow the path of poverty. The testimony of this poverty: I have no wealth, my wealth is the gift I received, God: this gratuity is our wealth! And this poverty saves us from becoming managers, entrepreneurs … The works of the Church must be brought forward, and some are a little complex, but with a heart of poverty, not with the heart of an investment broker or an entrepreneur…”

(snip)

“These two are the signs of an apostle who lives this gratuity: poverty and the ability to praise the Lord. And when we find the apostles who want to build a rich Church and a Church without the gratuitousness of praise, the Church becomes old, the Church becomes an NGO, the Church becomes lifeless. Today we ask the Lord for the grace to acknowledge this generosity: ‘Freely you have received, freely give’. Recognizing this gratuity, this gift of God . Let us move forward in preaching of Gospel”.

Talking about gratuitousness…depending solely upon the Lord…the Church is not an NGO.

 

[clem456]

Challenging stuff ^^^^

 

[josh987654321]

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 can’t access these links anymore, could someone please provide me with a working link on (Taking Risks 2/22/2013)

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

Thank you
Josh

 

[graciew]

2013-06-13 Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) May the Lord grant us the grace to watch our tongues and be careful of what we say of others, because through our weakness and sin, we often find it easier to insult and denigrate than say or do good. This was the lesson at the heart of Pope Francis’ homily Thursday morning at Mass, which he celebrated in his native Spanish

news.va/en/news/pope-at-mass-the-grace-not-to-speak-ill-of-others

 

[AndyP2010]

Homily June 14, 2013

“The humility of the priest, the humility of a Christian is concrete,” said Pope Francis, for which, therefore, if a Christian fails, “to make this confession to himself and to the Church, then something is wrong,” and the first thing to fail will be our ability “understand the beauty of salvation that Jesus brings us.”

"Brothers, we have a treasure: that of Jesus Christ the Saviour. The Cross of Jesus Christ, this treasure of which we pride ourselves - but we have it in a clay vessel. Let us vaunt also our ‘handbook’ of our sins. Thus is the dialogue Christian and Catholic: concrete, because the salvation of Jesus Christ is concrete. Jesus Christ has not saved us with an idea, an intellectual program, no. He saved with His flesh, with the concreteness of flesh. He is lowered, made man, made flesh until the end. This is a gift that we can only understand, only receive, in earthen vessels. "