What is happening to the Supreme Pontiff Francis? Never before Satan had undermined the Papacy
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I have not heard before Deo placuit and now I can not read it, I will later; hopefully it will be truly catholic. As for Gaudete … just a question: how do you think we can sanctify, speaking of the sacraments and sacramental grace, far below the minimum wage ?
Dear Reader,
the document Rejoice and rejoice It is of high spiritual and theological quality. It does not seem to be messed on the Magisterium of Pope Francis in this field.
If then, She says instead of joking seriously, then disqualified even more.
When I hear the Pope teach a child that we are all children of God and baptism only he makes us more children of God What do I think?
Dear Blas,
it is said that we should always think, in some moments, by instinct of self-defense, you can also turn off your brain …
Vedo l'inutilitá dell'Isola in Patmos. Now I turn off your brain.
Dear Blas,
as he saw, Father Ariel to like jokes. But do not take it, he just wanted to play down one thing that we know well the seriousness. We are therefore convinced that will do well continue to follow.
It will then I will have a detailed response.
About then, the words of the Pope on the question of divine filiation, I propose the following considerations.
Stating that all men, of any religion, are children of God, even regardless of Baptism, the Holy Father intended to refer to the fact that all people receive the grace to be saved, because God wants to save all men. It is that mysterious light of the Logos, of which St. John speaks, the Logos that enlightens every man [GV 1,10].
Baptism, Anyway, is the sacrament by which, as the Catechism [n.1213] on the basis of I John 3,1-2, we become children of God, or, as Jesus said to Nicodemus, "we born from above" [GV 3,3], namely that we are born from the Father, in the image of the Son, born of the Father.
So, as Christ was born twice: in time, from Maria, as a man; and eternity is born of the Father, like God, so the Christian participates in some way of this double birth: from their parents in the biological sense, and by God in a spiritual sense.
The ability to discern good from evil, of which the Pope speaks, then you already own capacity of natural reason, which it belongs to all men as men, even before and independently of receiving the baptismal grace. Baptism strengthens this discernment, adding to the simple light of natural reason the light of faith, which enlightens the mind on the duties of the Christian life.
Baptism, properly, It does not increase a child of pre-existing God, but establishing. The Pope then speaks of this "offspring" in a broad sense, metaphoric, since even the human being in this sense can be called "God's daughter".
Indeed, already exists in the Old Testament the term "son of God", but it is used only in the metaphorical sense. So Israel, angels and kings are called "sons of God". But it is clear that Christ is the Son of God in the proper sense, and consequently is the son of God by participation only baptized.
However the Pope, with the use of such an extended term "son of God", It is referring to the fact that it is only the grace to be the essential thing for salvation, even more than the baptism, to which not all and not for their fault, can access. And 'sanctifying grace, instead God gives to all, unless it is not the subject itself to lose it by sin. This does not mean that those who know Christ's command to baptize and to be baptized, It is bound to obey, under pain of eternal damnation [cf. Mt 28,19-20].
But if you have enough grace to save, So why a child of God produced by baptism? Baptism, with the gift of the Holy Spirit, as the Pope says, It increases the grace and makes it safe and easy salvation.
“… Baptism, with the gift of the Holy Spirit, as the Pope says, It increases the grace and makes it safe and easy salvation…”
Let me get: She says that salvation is safer and easier for a Christian (for a Catholic even safer and easier?), for a Muslim or a jew or a Buddhist salvation it is more difficult (or less easy) and less secure (or more uncertain). A God such does not seem the ultimate in justice and goodness…
"... just as Christ was born twice: in time, from Maria, as a man; and eternity is born of the Father, like God, so the Christian participates in some way of this double birth: from their parents in the biological sense, and by God in the spiritual sense "
Let me get: man is born from their parents in the biological sense, by God in a spiritual sense; but Christ? from their parents in the biological sense? From Giuseppe no, from Maria? I do not think so: the origin of Christ there is no fertilized female gamete, Oh yeah? I'm curious to know your opinion ...
Be’, I would say that the phrase could also have its “poetics” justness, It is addressed to a child. The problem is that the Pope too often tends to speak in this manner and then continues on the one hand to cause ambiguity and on the other to offer the right to exploitation. If he made a statement like that Benedict XVI addressed to a little girl, given the context we would only smile without raising an eyebrow.