Posted on 10/26/2013 12:06:04 PM PDT by marshmallow
IRVING — In the powerful words of Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, a member of Pope Francis’ circle of advisers, the work started in Vatican II 50 years ago will reach fruition in the Catholic Church’s push toward “New Evangelization.”
Delivering the keynote address at Friday’s opening of the University of Dallas Ministry Conference in Las Colinas, Maradiaga described a contemporary church “that only has a future by humbly trying to follow Jesus.”
“Jesus was not rich. He lived as a poor villager. He didn’t want to ingratiate himself with the powers of the world,” Maradiaga told the packed hall at the Irving Convention Center. “If the church has a mission, it is to manifest the deeds of Jesus.
“As Pope Francis said, we have to reach out to the periphery of the world and proclaim the Kingdom of God,” he said. “Even Jesus didn’t proclaim himself. He proclaimed the kingdom.”
Maradiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa in Honduras, said the church must break down the walls between the ordained hierarchy and the laity, with all Catholics becoming “the suffering servant.”
“There is not a dual classification of Christians,” he said. “The church as a society of unequals disappears. … We are here to serve, and that requires lowering ourselves to become servants.”
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Kumbaya.
So this advisor is stating Pope Francis said that?
Does he not even read the Gospel?
"My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm." Jn 18:36.
Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent." Jn 6:29
“In order to be more like Jesus we must have a government that impoverishes everyone!”
hang on.... instead of that how about we follow the teachings of Jesus??
lamestream media> Dallas Morning Star
He died for our sins and showed us the way to become saved!
Isn't that a bit more important?
Should Catholics ride donkeys instead of cars to "be more like Jesus"?
He lived as a poor villager.
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Why is it assumed that Jesus was poor?
His father was a carpenter. Jesus was as well. When Jesus was born his parents, Mary and Joseph, could afford the travel to Bethlehem. They wanted to stay in the inn. Obviously, they could afford to pay for the inn or they wouldn’t have asked to stay there. When they needed to flee to Egypt they had the financial means to do so.
So?....Where is all this” poorness” regarding Jesus coming from?
Joseph was not some illegal alien house framer. A carpenter in that society was like being a contractor in ours, and owning a donkey was like owning a Lexus.
“In order to be more like Jesus we must have a government that impoverishes everyone!”
hang on.... instead of that how about we follow the teachings of Jesus??
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The irony is that if we lived **all** the Commandments and followed Jesus and His teachings they world would be safer and everyone would enjoy far more prosperity. There would be fewer prisons, fewer police, fewer wars, fewer people on welfare, fewer addictions, fewer divorces, fewer fatherless and motherless children, and people would generally be healthier as well.
Yes, I have that thought too.
How many people couldn’t afford a donkey in those days? I bet that was quite an expense.
They had to travel to Bethlehem because big government in Rome was making it as inconvenient as possible to pay taxes.
owning a donkey was like owning a Lexus.
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First of all, do we really know Jesus owned a donkey? Secondly, no, owning a horse was like owning a Lexus. Were Jesus to ride into Jerusalem today he would be riding in a Ford Focus. The donkey was symbolic of his humility. If he wanted to impress people he would have ridden a horse.
The Bible is silent on this, but maybe....just maybe....Jesus supported His**own** ministry of 3 years from His **own** SAVINGS earned by being a carpenter! Gee! Imagine that!
One more tidbit from the Bible makes me think that Jesus and His family were solidly middle class: The Wedding where he turned water into wine. That seemed like a middle class celebration to me and Jesus and His mother had been invited.
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At least two carpenters in the family and it was the Jesus family, so I imagine they were pretty highly rated carpenters and people to deal with, so I agree that he was probably middle class, how could they not be on the high side of their trade?
There is no donkey in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’s birth. There’s a donkey in the Palm Sunday sequence, but it’s not His, just borrowed.
The Bible is not silent. It says that women such as Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, and other Galilean women supported Jesus out of their own resources.
This does not exclude other sources of support, but the Bible is not silent.
Also, the Gospel says that Judas Iscariot held the communal purse for Jesus and the Apostles, and “used to steal the contributions.” This tells us they were at least partly funded by donations.
“… We are here to serve, and that requires lowering ourselves to become servants.”
So everyone should be servants, serving servants; makes no sense.
I suspect it comes from the “foxes have holes birds of the air have nests but the son of man has no place to lay his head” comment in the gospels.
I don’t disagree that Joseph and Jesus ran a good business and had some $$. You make a good point.
Its also the same way with Peter. He and his father had a fishing fleet, with employees etc. Yet so often I hear them called “ignorant fishermen” often by those who want to make themselves feel smarter.
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