Pope Leo nails it. Our Catholic Faith must lead to good works and not just external religious practices although, that is not eliminated. Pope Leo also says that the endgame is our salvation, eternal life in heaven. Thank you Pope Leo for being coherent and pointing out the obvious in terms of what embracing God’s grace and plan for us accomplishes, especially eternal life based on the truth!
You can read the full brief Angelus here, but this is the moneybyte:
Dear brothers and sisters, the Church and the world do not need people who fulfill their religious duties as if the faith were merely an external label. We need laborers who are eager to work in the mission field, loving disciples who bear witness to the Kingdom of God in all places. Perhaps there is no shortage of “intermittent Christians” who occasionally act upon some religious feeling or participate in sporadic events. But there are few who are ready, on a daily basis, to labor in God’s harvest, cultivating the seed of the Gospel in their own hearts in order then to share it in their families, places of work or study, their social contexts and with those in need.
To do this, we do not need too many theoretical ideas about pastoral plans. Instead, we need to pray to the Lord of the harvest. Priority must be given, then, to our relationship with the Lord and to cultivating our dialogue with him. In this way, he will make us his laborers and send us into the field of the world to bear witness to his Kingdom.
Let us ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, who generously gave her “yes” to participating in the work of salvation, to intercede for us and accompany us on the path of following the Lord, so that we too may become joyful laborers in God’s Kingdom.
On Saturday Pope Leo also pointed out the obvious in a very cogent way, which clarifies so much reigning confusion in the Church today, especially elitists involved in the synod who want a different Church not the Catholic Church of the ages.
This is in part what he said to the Augustinian Sisters:
A culture without truth becomes a tool of the powerful". Pope Leo XIV gave this consideration during a meeting with the Augustinian Sisters Servants of Jesus and Mary in the Apostolic Palace on Saturday, July 5. He explained that "instead of freeing consciences, it confuses and distracts them according to the interests of the market, trends or worldly success".
And then Crux made this observation about synodality, which is interesting:
Shortly before the death of Pope Francis, it was announced a new 3-year process will be held on Synodality. This is to implement the results of the 3-year Synod on Synodality which concluded in 2024. “Synodality” had been a driving issue of the late pontiff, even though what he meant by the word was never really defined, and adding three years to the process seems to be exhausting the Church with committee meetings and endless documents.
One of Leo’s first acts was to reinstate the practice of the pope putting the Pallium on new archbishops, an act that was ended by Francis as part of his “synodal process.” Observers noted the new pope’s meeting with the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod on June 26 did not even mention the upcoming 3-year process and was very short, especially given the more lengthy meetings with other Vatican offices.
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