To protect Jesus with Mary,to protect the whole of creation,to protect each person,especially the poorest,to protect ourselves: this is a service that the Bishop of Rome is called to carry out,yet one to which all of us are called,so that the star of hope will shine brightly. Let us protect with love all that God has given us!
Some of this sounds like a secularist politician... with God..Biden for instance.. at least he didn’t say global warming when speaking on the environment...yet..
And somebody tells this man Jesus Christ does not need Mary’s protection anymore... to protect Jesus with Mary? I pray that is an error in transcription. .
By Your words you just do not understand the deep words of what he was saying. Since Christ has ascended into heaven until he comes back the Church is a living witness. He is figuratively talking about bringing the Gospel Christ to protect/ save to the masses like Joseph and Mary brought Jesus to all as stewards. Also being non catholic you certainly do not understand the intercession of the heavenly court which has Joseph and Mary in it. Whenever a Catholic talks flowery in a sense of a saint it never means equal to Christ's power or true role. It is always in the capacity of the power of the saints prayers or what he did on earth at the time.
"Today, together with the feast of Saint Joseph, we are celebrating the beginning of the ministry of the new Bishop of Rome, the Successor of Peter, which also involves a certain power. Certainly, Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it? Jesus’ three questions to Peter about love are followed by three commands: feed my lambs, feed my sheep. Let us never forget that authentic power is service, and that the Pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross. He must be inspired by the lowly, concrete and faithful service which marked Saint Joseph and, like him, he must open his arms to protect all of God’s people and embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important, those whom Matthew lists in the final judgment on love: the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and those in prison (cf. Mt 25:31-46). Only those who serve with love are able to protect!"
Cheers in Christ!
You may not be familiar with Franciscan spirituality, which includes a particular love of nature and creation as a gift and reflection of God's goodness and beauty. He seemed to draw on it at times today.
And somebody tells this man Jesus Christ does not need Mary’s protection anymore... to protect Jesus with Mary? I pray that is an error in transcription.
He uses the word "protection" in various ways in his homily, that's for sure! It threw me off at first. Here's the condensed version if you didn't read it: He defines what he means by protection in paragraphs 4, 5, 6. He's calling us to ponder the way Joseph cared for Mary and Jesus. He's calling us to see Christ in each other, especially the poor, elderly, children, etc. He's telling us the service to which he feels called as Pope and inviting us to join him in loving Christ by loving others we might be tempted to pass by. In most of the homily he's holding up Joseph as our role model in how to protect (i.e. love). But also addresses openness to God's will and discernment (paragraph 5), and things that thwart our role as protectors (paragraph 7). All of this he discusses as "protection."
He closes by saying he intends to seek Mary's prayers (now and in the future) that he may be a protector (in all the senses he defined the role of a protector in preceding paragraphs) in his duties as Pope. Then he says we are all called to be protectors. Hopefully you now understand that when he says "protect Jesus with Mary" he means to protect (love and serve) Jesus (in the disguise of the poor and vulnerable person) with (by asking the help of) Mary (that is, asking her to pray that we may learn to love better).
He's not saying Jesus needs her to safeguard him as if he's helpless. He's citing her as "exemplar and model" (see paragraph 3) of the type of love and service (i.e. protection) we're called to give.
Other than asking the help of Mary's prayers, I don't see too much for a nonCatholic to object to. But maybe that's just because I've been up over 24 hrs. Anyway, hope this made sense.