{"id":19838,"date":"2015-06-19T18:50:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T00:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=19838"},"modified":"2017-04-17T21:58:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T01:58:39","slug":"listening-to-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/listening-to-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to Christ","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

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NOT<\/b> since Humanae Vitae<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/i>has there perhaps been an encyclical letter that has generated more angst, more concern, more anticipation than Laudato si\u2019.<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/i>I have printed it off and will spend the weekend reading and meditating upon it.<\/p>\n

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I sensed the Lord saying that the first thing He wants us to do with this teaching is to examine our own conscience. <\/i>Put aside judgments, put aside one\u2019s own filters, and let the word speak to your heart. And in this regard, it is a \u201cword\u201d from the mind of Christ. For Jesus said to the Apostles, and thus, their successors:<\/p>\n

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Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me. (Luke 10:16)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here too, we must set aside Peter, \u201cthe man\u201d, and listen to Peter, \u201cthe office.\u201d If you flip to the back of the encyclical, you will see just under 180 footnotes of references to several popes, the Catechism, the Second Vatican Council, and other magisterial statements. This in itself is a witness to the perennial voice of the Church that is an unfolding echo from the first Peter whom Jesus commanded to \u201cfeed my sheep.\u201d<\/i> [1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. John 21:17<\/span><\/span>