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Francis for Lent 2020: "This Is The Time To Give Up Useless Words, Chatter" [Not Holy Mass] Picture: © gloria.tv, CC BY-ND, #newsRrrhdcdhngMore
Francis for Lent 2020: "This Is The Time To Give Up Useless Words, Chatter" [Not Holy Mass]

Picture: © gloria.tv, CC BY-ND, #newsRrrhdcdhng
Fishermen
Don't insult your siblings in Christ like this (Mt 5:22)!! What is important to us is other human lives. Christ is Life, and He gave up his life for humans, so humans can have eternal life. He did not give up his life risking other's life: this is a misunderstanding of the gospel. Thus we must not spread this virus, not to protect out lives, but to protect people who are very vulnerable to the virus …More
Don't insult your siblings in Christ like this (Mt 5:22)!! What is important to us is other human lives. Christ is Life, and He gave up his life for humans, so humans can have eternal life. He did not give up his life risking other's life: this is a misunderstanding of the gospel. Thus we must not spread this virus, not to protect out lives, but to protect people who are very vulnerable to the virus, may kill them and we may be responsible for this in God's judgement.
Dr Bobus
Unlike the Benedictines the Jesuits have no concept of sanctification through the liturgy. The Holy Rule of St Benedict refers to the liturgy of the Divine Office as Opus Dei: Nihil operi Dei praeponatur. The Jesuit approach is utilitarian, existing only as a means of confecting the Sacraments and as a marketing technique. .
Ultraviolet
Shucks no, Dr Bobus. Those are valid criticisms against schimatic medievalists obsessed with the outward appearances of the Mass. :P The Pope is just providing guidance, you see... ;-)
"Useless words" and "chatter" means finding fault with (in decreasing order of offensiveness)
1.) Pope Francis
2.) his recent appointments
3.) the Vatican's Marxist policies
4.) the Vatican's ongoing war against …More
Shucks no, Dr Bobus. Those are valid criticisms against schimatic medievalists obsessed with the outward appearances of the Mass. :P The Pope is just providing guidance, you see... ;-)

"Useless words" and "chatter" means finding fault with (in decreasing order of offensiveness)
1.) Pope Francis
2.) his recent appointments
3.) the Vatican's Marxist policies
4.) the Vatican's ongoing war against traditional monastic life
6.) pro-homosexual Jesuits
7.) the agenda promoted by 6.) and tacitly endorsed by 1.)- 3.)
Dr Bobus
Does the pope include accusations like rigidity, ritualism, and promethean neo pelagian among the words to give up?