Pope to Guardini foundation: repentance key to door of mercy

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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received members of the Romano Guardini Foundation on Friday, who are here in Rome to take part in a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Gregorian University to mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of the Catholic priest and theologian, born in Verona, Italy, and reared in Mainz, Germany, who was one of the great lights of 20th century Catholic intellectual life.
The Holy Father’s remarks to the participants turned on two central themes of Guardini’s theological work: true repentance as the condition of the efficacy of grace in our lives and in the world; and the need to cultivate docility to the Divine will in order to enter into what the theologian calls, “a living unity” with God.
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I’m benefitting tremendously from the image of ‘the door of mercy’ as introduced by St Faustina. It changes the way I interpret the ‘door’ to the Kingdom of Heaven in gospel verses. Even though it has clearly always been the door of mercy as revealed by Matthew 23:13* “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.”*… there is still subtle promotion of the eye for an eye version of justice as the key to that door.

Repentance and docility to the Divine will.
 
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