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Pope Francis’ Wednesday Audience for February 24, 2016:
On Wealth, Power and Mercy  - Aleteia

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Here below we publish Pope Francis’ Wednesday catechesis for February 24, 2016. - Aleteia
Dear brothers and sisters,
Good morning. We continue the catecheses on mercy in Sacred Scripture. Various passages speak of the powerful, of kings, and of men who are “on top,” and of their arrogance and abuses. Wealth and power are realities that can be good and useful to the common good if placed at the service of the poor, and of everyone, with justice and charity. But when, as too often happens, they are experienced as privilege, with selfishness and arrogance, they are transformed into instruments of corruption and death. This is what happens in the episode of Naboth’s vineyard, described in the first book of Kings, chapter 21, on which we reflect today.
In this text, it is said that the king of Israel, Ahab, wanted to buy the vineyard of a man named Naboth, for the vineyard adjoined the royal palace....

......The great St. Ambrose wrote a small book on this episode. It is called Naboth. We would do well to read it during this season of Lent. It’s very beautiful; it’s very concrete.                    THIS IS A WORTH WHILE READ FOR LENT>>

Encountering Pope Francis
He's more than the sum of the parts we like about him.
Aleteia by Matthew Becklo - September 25, 2015

September 25, 2015
Saint Francis, G.K. Chesterton wrote, can be understood in three ways.

The first is as a man who “anticipated all that is most liberal and sympathetic in the modern mood: the love of nature; the love of animals; the sense of social compassion; the sense of the spiritual dangers of prosperity and even of property.”

The second is as a man of the stigmata and skulls, an ascetic who emphasized the liturgy and mortality – “as dark a figure as St. Dominic”. Read more....

August 31, 2015
The technological paradigm and its consequences

Pope Francis and the Gadgets of Sin

Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Sí zeros in on a fundamental problem with American culture that we would rather not focus on: The dark triumph of technology in almost every aspect of our lives.

At heart Pope Francis’ message is very simple: He calls Christians to reject modern excesses and live simply, according to Gospel principles. 

“A constant flood of new consumer goods can baffle the heart and prevent us from cherishing each thing and each moment,” he writes. “To be serenely present to each reality, however small it may be, opens us to much greater horizons of understanding and personal fulfilment” (No. 222). Read more here.
"As I know my birthday, I should know my Baptism day, because it is a feast day."

Mark your calendars - feast of new hope

Pope Francis calls on us to know the date of the gift of our Baptism and to mark the date in our calendars as a Feast Day. It impacts the present as we are called to live our Baptism everyday as followers of Jesus, clothed in Christ. We are reminded that through Baptism, we are bearers of new hope that does not disappoint, helps us to recognize in the face of the needy, the suffering, and also of our neighbour, the face of Jesus and by encountering us, our brothers and sisters meet Jesus' brothers and sisters. Read more here.
Our Shepherd, the World's Shepherd

Time's Person of the Year

Pope Francis has been declared Time’s Person Of The Year. Looking back on 2013, he has manifested his integrity and shown through words and how he lives that he is a true follower of Christ, a beacon for our times. .....see the annotated pictures.

Message of His Holiness Francis for the celebration of the World Day of Peace - January 1, 2014

Pope Francis has again reminded us of the essentials of Christ's teachings to be applied to the world today.
... peace is a work of solidarity...
In a Christmas reflection on the meaning of Christmas he reminded us:  "Whoever has nourished, welcomed, visited, loved one of the least and poorest of men, will have done this to the Son of God. On the contrary, whoever has rejected, forgotten, ignored one of the least and poorest of men, will have done this to God himself." Read about Pope Francis' Christmas Message on ABC.
In his World Peace Day 2014 message the Holy Father touched on so many issues of concern to us who are called as Franciscans to work for the Kingdom of God. He wrote: " ... my best wishes for a life filled with joy and hope ... including that irrepressible longing for fraternity ... [which] is an essential human quality ... without fraternity it is impossible to build a just society and a solid and lasting peace. ... ignored in a world marked by a “globalization of indifference" ... we have an inherent calling to fraternity, but also the tragic capacity to betray that calling. ... we learn that the integral development of peoples is the new name of peace.[3] ... we conclude that peace is an opus solidaritatis.[4]” I urge you all to read and reflect on this strong JPIC message which can be found at: Fraternity the Foundation and Pathway to Peace. 
Andrew Conradi, National JPIC Animator, Canada

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