Revolutionize the world by revolutionizing oneself! Revolutionize the world by revolutionizing oneself! Gospel of Sunday, March 3, 2019 Dear brothers and sisters, in following the historic journey of …More
Revolutionize the world by revolutionizing oneself!
Revolutionize the world by revolutionizing oneself!
Gospel of Sunday, March 3, 2019
Dear brothers and sisters, in following the historic journey of Pope Francis to the United Arab Emirates last February, I came across a saying of one of Islam's greatest mystics, Sufì Bayazid Bistami, who confirmed me in the doctrine of the Catholic Church concerning the "seeds of the Word" disseminated by God in the various religions and philosophies.
A saying, dear friends, that seems particularly in tune with what Jesus will tell us in the passage of the Gospel of Luke that we will listen Sunday, March 3: "Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own? How can you say to your brother,
'Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,' when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye.
In fact, summing up as much as possible, Sufi Bayazid, who has reached old age, realizes that he had wasted his whole life for having prayed badly. In fact throughout his life he always asked God for the wrong grace. He was wrong in his youth when, in prayer, he asked God for the strength to change the world and he was wrong in his middle age when, in prayer, he asked God the grace to change his family and friends, while he should have asked from the beginning, the grace to change himself ...
This leads me to reflect on the extraordinary grace we have received for being born into a Catholic family, which had as its first priority that of making us receive Holy Baptism and Christian initiation.
What responsibility do we have for our brothers and sisters who have not received our same grace who through religions, philosophies and wisdom of this world glimpses a pieces of this truth only, perhaps, at the end of life ...
In fact, for the teaching of Jesus, true God and true Man, faithfully transmitted to us from the Holy Mother Catholic Church, we have received the grace to have access to the whole truth since childhood. A truth that if lived "integrally in love" will lead us to Eternal Life....
Revolutionize the world by revolutionizing oneself!
Gospel of Sunday, March 3, 2019
Dear brothers and sisters, in following the historic journey of Pope Francis to the United Arab Emirates last February, I came across a saying of one of Islam's greatest mystics, Sufì Bayazid Bistami, who confirmed me in the doctrine of the Catholic Church concerning the "seeds of the Word" disseminated by God in the various religions and philosophies.
A saying, dear friends, that seems particularly in tune with what Jesus will tell us in the passage of the Gospel of Luke that we will listen Sunday, March 3: "Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own? How can you say to your brother,
'Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,' when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye.
In fact, summing up as much as possible, Sufi Bayazid, who has reached old age, realizes that he had wasted his whole life for having prayed badly. In fact throughout his life he always asked God for the wrong grace. He was wrong in his youth when, in prayer, he asked God for the strength to change the world and he was wrong in his middle age when, in prayer, he asked God the grace to change his family and friends, while he should have asked from the beginning, the grace to change himself ...
This leads me to reflect on the extraordinary grace we have received for being born into a Catholic family, which had as its first priority that of making us receive Holy Baptism and Christian initiation.
What responsibility do we have for our brothers and sisters who have not received our same grace who through religions, philosophies and wisdom of this world glimpses a pieces of this truth only, perhaps, at the end of life ...
In fact, for the teaching of Jesus, true God and true Man, faithfully transmitted to us from the Holy Mother Catholic Church, we have received the grace to have access to the whole truth since childhood. A truth that if lived "integrally in love" will lead us to Eternal Life....