During the Jubilee year, the Holy Father gives an additional audience on Saturdays as His Holiness gives on Wednesdays. Every time I hear the pope speaks, it is packed with so much food for thought and our Catholic life. Today’s talk is no different. It is like a “mini-retreat”.
I recommend you listen to it. It’s about Saint Helena finding the true Cross in the earth of the outskirts of Jerusalem, her conversion to the Faith despite her husband Constantine I and their son, Constantine who allowed the Church to come out of the ground/catacombs and into the lives of cultures and societies.
The metaphor of digging into the earth, especially like that of children, is brilliant and breaking the crust of the earth to find the treasure of God, be it the true Cross or the Church in the catacombs.
Pope Leo concludes by saying we dig to find that treasure, the Kingdom of God. Don’t trample upon it but discover it and allow God to change you! Powerful stuff!
3 comments:
Father McDonald said..."Every time I hear the pope speaks, it is packed with so much food for thought and our Catholic life."
I agree with that.
That is one reason why I am leery of the notion that we need to hear less from the Vicar of Christ...that we should pay less attention to Rome/Pope...that we place too much emphasis upon the Papacy.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Father McDonald, the following is not a dig.
Father, yesterday, you promoted Father Sensate's call for "A LESS PAPAL-CENTRIC CHURCH."
However, daily via your blog, you promote Pope Leo XIV to the hilt. You place tremendous emphasis upon His Holiness...to the point that you focus upon his having donned a hat (saturno)...called attention to Pope Leo XIV having sat atop a motorcycle.
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Father, again, the above is not an attack against you. I am on board with your heavy promotion of holy Pope Leo XIV.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
I agree!
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