This is probably not the most incoherent blog I’ve ever read, but it’s right up there.
Read the headline and knew it was someone with a sense of humor.:)
People that follow Christ don't do that. Jesus never prayed that people fall into temptation. No real Christian would.
I am a Catholic, Catholic educated, and I have no idea of what you are talking about....none!!
Could you elaborate?
Paul also went further to exclaim that he was "chief among sinners."
Not hearing or reading actual quotes from your Pope, I would state that he is in error, if he is praying for people to "slide into sin" so that they will recognize their need of forgiveness, for we all, including himself, are in need of forgiveness that only Jesus alone can grant.
I pray that others reading this missive realize they are in dangerous waters if they think that their "good deeds" will save them from Hell, for those "good deeds" are nothing but "dirty rags," again, according to Paul (St. Paul.)
We are all sinners..
“Ya dadblasted, flat-footed, fur-bearin’ varmint!”
Yosemite Sam’s curse on Mr. B. Bunny
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/12/15/pope_francis_rigidity_is_a_sign_of_a_weak_heart/1114830
I didn’t see the actual homily linked in the blog, so I searched for it.
John Baptist Vianney (Curé d’Ars), Priest (RM) - BEWARE IF YOU HAVE NO TEMPTATIONS
So, you will ask me, who then are the people most tempted? They are these, my friends; note them carefully. The people most tempted are those who are ready, with the grace of God, to sacrifice everything for the salvation of their poor souls, who renounce all those things which most people eagerly seek. It is not one devil only who tempts them, but millions seek to entrap them. We arc told that St. Francis of Assisi and all his religious were gathered on an open plain, where they had built little huts of rushes. Seeing the extraordinary penances which were being practiced, St. Francis ordered that all instruments of penance should be brought out, whereupon his religious produced them in bundles. At this moment there was one young man to whom God gave the grace to see his Guardian Angel. On the one side he saw all of these good religious, who could not satisfy their hunger for penance, and, on the other, his Guardian Angel allowed him to see a gathering of eighteen thousand devils, who were holding counsel to see in what way they could subvert these religious by temptation. One of the devils said: “You do not understand this at all. These religious are so humble; ah, what wonderful virtue, so detached from themselves, so attached to God! They have a superior who leads them so well that it is impossible to succeed in winning them over. Let us wait until their superior is dead, and then we shall try to introduce among them young people without vocations who will bring about a certain slackening of spirit, and in this way we shall gain them.”
http://www.cfpeople.org/apologetics/page51a015.html
http://www.philomena.org/vianney.asp
Tempted much, Ebb Tide?
This Pope is constantly accused of being too liberal. And then when he preaches some fire and brimstone/repent before you’re damned words, he’s accused of lacking charity. MANY conversions come after sickness and trials. After being wounded in battle, the formerly frivolous Ignatius of Loyola went on to become one of the greatest saints in the Church after spiritual reading while confined to a bed for recuperation.
Does God tempt anyone? No.
Does God ordain evil? No.
Does God often permit evil to bring souls on the verge of Hell to their senses? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT.
I’ll continue to admit that Francis doesn’t always shoot from the hip/off the cuff well. He shouldn’t have used the throw a banana peel in front of the sinner reference. But all he is saying here is: God, shake up the sinner in your infinite wisdom before it’s too late.
“Authentic sorrow, therefore, which is one of the conditions for happiness, is sorrow for sin.” -The Servant of God Father John Hardon (1914-2000)
“Joy in Suffering”, p.33