Don't worry, he'll tell you...
Posted on 12/15/2018 5:13:18 PM PST by ebb tide
Rather than let down our guard, Pope Francis suggests that we need to practice discernment:
We must remember that prayerful discernment must be born of a readiness to listen: to the Lord and to others, and to reality itself, which always challenges us in new ways. (Gaudete et Exsultate, 172)
This, too, is good advice, but once again we need to ask if Francis is following it. Does he manifest a “readiness to listen”? It’s becoming obvious that Francis does not listen to his critics. He ignores them, fails to respond to their sincere concerns, demotes them, and, in some cases, criticizes them harshly. Does he listen to “reality itself”?
Ping
“Pope Francis and the Devil”
First of all, how do we know which is which? Asking for a friend.
The good news is that PF believes in devils. The bad news is that he thinks that the devils are rosary-saying, Latin Mass-attending, rule-following Catholics.
Satan is the one who laughs at queers.
McCarrick relayed this conversation with the Pope Francis, “I told the Pope that I guess the Lord still has some work for me to do.” The Pope responded to McCarrick, “But on the other hand, maybe the Devil did not have your accommodations ready.”
So in the meantime Francis, provided McCarrick's accomodations, while the devil prepared his own.
My friend who follows psychics say they all agree Pope Francis will not be pope next year. I don’t know whether he’ll quit or be “fired.”
The Lord’s Prayer asks that God not allow us to be led into temptation. That is how I interpret it. Nobody believes God leads people into sin.
It does NOT say what this damn idiot is implying it says.
And Bergoglio’s motivation here has NOTHING to do with SEMANTICS, but EVERYTHING to do with assaulting tradition and Orthofoxy.
It’s difficult to see where one ends and the other begins.
Pope is insane. Driven to harm the Church.
That was his Blind Squirrel moment.
Oh. The devil made him do it. How convenient.
The word translated as “temptation” does not mean seduction or falling for something attractive: it means testing, being put to the test. Think Job, not Salome. It is a plea not to have our faith and our hope tried by some situation permitted by God.
Remember, we’re dealing with the Lord’s Payer here, as the Protestants call it, that is, the words of Jesus, and we don’t have a right to tinker with them because we find them hard to understand.
The Latin upon which modern language translations are based is a translation of the Greek, and it is accurate. The problem is that over the centuries, the meaning of the modern words “tempt” or “temptation” has changed, particularly in English.
In addition, the “new” translation is not new and even appeared in an ideologically driven revision of the text in the Spanish Novus Ordo mass some years ago, and was unsuccessfully opposed by orthodox Spanish bishops at the time. There have been proposals to change the text back to the more accurate original, since the new translation imposed by the Pope implies that if we are attracted to something sinful and go ahead and do it, it is not really our fault, because God let us do it (a theory that many of our sinful clergy seem to favor...).
The Pope was completely wrong, but then, he boasts about how little he knows of languages, scholarship or theology. He once said it makes his head hurt. He did this simply to show that he could.
Agreed, he simply wants to show that he can change anything he wants to change, including Scripture, on a mere whim. He believes he is all powerful and Jesus was nothing compared to Jorge Bergoglio.
“Asking for a friend.”
LOL, I got a good chuckle out of this!
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