{"id":28274,"date":"2016-01-23T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T18:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=22617"},"modified":"2017-04-17T21:58:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T01:58:33","slug":"pope-in-a-hurry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/pope-in-a-hurry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope in a Hurry?","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"CENTER\">THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS<br \/> for January 22nd, 2016<br \/> Opt. Memorial of St. Vincent<br \/> Liturgical texts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/012316.cfm\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pope-francisflyin_Fotor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong> Jesus came upon Zacchaeus, a tax collecting thief, He asked to dine with him. In an instant, the narrowness of heart <em>of the throngs <\/em>was revealed. They despised Zacchaeus and scorned Jesus for making such a vague, ambiguous, scandalous gesture. Shouldn&#8217;t Zacchaeus be condemned? Isn&#8217;t Jesus sending the message that sin is okay? Likewise, Pope Francis&#8217; call to acknowledge, first the <em>dignity of the person <\/em>and become truly present to others, is perhaps revealing our own narrowness of heart. For we have been firmly told that it is no longer enough to sit at our computers and Facebook nice Catholic links; it is not enough to hide in our rectories between homilies; it is not enough to say &#8220;God bless you,&#8221; and ignore the wounds, hunger, loneliness and pain of our brothers and sisters. This, at least, is how one Cardinal saw it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">To evangelize implies a desire in the Church to come out of herself. The Church is called to come out of herself and to go to the peripheries not only in the geographic sense but also the existential peripheries: those of the mystery of sin, of pain, of injustice, of ignorance, of doing without religion, of thought and of all misery. When the Church does not come out of herself to evangelize, she becomes self-referent and then she gets sick\u2026 The self-referent Church keeps Jesus Christ within herself and does not let him come out\u2026 Thinking of the next Pope, he must be a man that from the contemplation and adoration of Jesus Christ, helps the Church to come out to the existential peripheries, that helps her to be the fruitful mother who lives from the sweet and comforting joy of evangelizing.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2014Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, shortly before being elected the 266th pope; <em>Salt and Light Magazine<\/em>, p. 8, Issue 4, Special Edition, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Like Jesus, we need to begin our evangelization by letting those around us know they are welcome in our presence; that we are happy just to be with them, to listen to them, to endure their rough edges and even worldliness (which we all have too). And then, after &#8220;dining&#8221; with them, we can invite them, if they are willing, to further taste the banquet of truth: the\u00a0meat of doctrine, the salads of the Sacraments, and\u00a0delightful desserts of Catholic spirituality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least, that his how Pope Francis reads the signs of the times, and seemingly, with an urgency. In this lies a great irony. Much of the suspicion, negative assumptions, and conspiracies against the Holy Father involve &#8220;end time&#8221; prophecies, often influenced by lingering Evangelical biases against the &#8220;harlot&#8221; Catholic Church; an overly predominant credence given to the prophecy of St. Malachy; and error-ridden prophecies, such as those of the now debunked &#8220;Maria Divine Mercy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But as theologian Peter Bannister points out, the &#8220;Three F&#8217;s&#8221; of Pope Francis point to a pontiff keenly aware of the signs of the times. After his election, Francis immediately dedicated his pontificate to Our Lady of Fatima. On two occasions, he has referenced the book <em>The Lord of the World <\/em>(1907), which I have read. It is a novel penned at the turn of the last century centred around the Anti-Christ figure Julian Felsenburgh. The descriptions in the novel of those times eerily resemble our own. Which may be why, on several occasions, Francis has railed against the West&#8217;s &#8220;ideological colonization,&#8221; those who are trying to corral humanity into the &#8220;sole thought.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">That is, worldliness that leads you to one unique thought, and to <em>apostasy<\/em>. No differences are permitted: all are equal.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, Homily, November 16th, 2015; <a href=\"http:\/\/zenit.org\/articles\/pope-s-morning-homily-don-t-auction-off-your-identity\/\">ZENIT.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And the last &#8220;F&#8221; lies in Holy Father&#8217;s prescient invocation of this Jubilee Year of Mercy through the Bull of Indiction, <a href=\"https:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/bulls\/documents\/papa-francesco_bolla_20150411_misericordiae-vultus.html\"><em>Misericordiae Vultus<\/em><\/a>, in which he invokes the intercession of St. Faustina,\u00a0whom he calls &#8220;the great apostle of mercy.&#8221; This is the saint to\u00a0whom Christ revealed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I first open wide the door of My mercy. He who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass through the door of My justice. <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2014<em>Divine Mercy in My Soul<\/em>, Diary of St. Faustina, n. 1146<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pope Francis cannot be ignorant of Faustina&#8217;s prophecies, which clearly indicate that we are in a &#8220;time of mercy&#8221; that will come to an end followed by a time of justice. Thus, when Pope Francis threw open the doors of the Church to the world, was he signaling that he is in a hurry to gather as many souls into the\u00a0&#8220;ark&#8221; of the Church as possible? As the Catechism teaches,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: small;\">The Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation. The Church is &#8220;the world reconciled.&#8221; She is that bark which &#8220;in the full sail of the Lord&#8217;s cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world.&#8221; According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah&#8217;s ark, which alone saves from the flood.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2014<em>Catechism of the Catholic Church, <\/em>n. 845<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pfly_Fotor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"222\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"2\" \/>There is another &#8220;flood&#8221; here and coming, a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-spiritual-tsunami\/\">Spiritual Tsunami<\/a>. <\/em>It is precisely the flood of which Francis has referred to several times: that of <em>apostasy.<\/em> Taking note of the Holy Father&#8217;s reference to the apocalyptic <em>Lord of the World, <\/em>Cardinal Francis George of Chicago pondered:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">What does that mean? In a sense, maybe it explains why he seems to be in a hurry. <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2014November 17th, 2014; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruxnow.com\/church\/2014\/11\/17\/chicagos-exiting-cardinal-the-church-is-about-truefalse-not-leftright\/\">cruxnow.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, the Pope seemed to suggest as much himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>I have a feeling my pontificate will be brief&#8230; It is a vague feeling I have that the Lord chose me for a short mission.<\/strong> \u2014interview with\u00a0Televisa in Mexico; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/mar\/13\/pope-francis-two-year-anniversary-lord-chose-me-short-mission\">The Guardian<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>March 13th, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There was one other preacher who seemed to be in a hurry to reach as many sinners as possible with <em>mercy<\/em> in a short period of time. And that was Jesus Christ.\u00a0He was often concerned about staying in one place too long:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">The crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him, they tried to prevent him from leaving them. But he said to them, \u201cTo the other towns also I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent.\u00a0(Luke 4:41-43)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/blockqu\note><\/p>\n<p>Brothers and sisters, the Church is indeed in a &#8220;holy hurry&#8221; as the world rapidly\u00a0descends into paganism again.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>We cannot calmly accept the rest of humanity falling back again into paganism. <\/strong>\u2014Cardinal Ratzinger (POPE BENEDICT XVI), The New Evangelization, Building the Civilization of Love; Address to Catechists and Religion Teachers, December 12, 2000<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, like Our Lord, the Church is also clearly heading toward its own passion (see <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/francis-and-the-coming-passion-of-the-church\/\">Pope Francis, and the Coming Passion of the Church<\/a><\/em>). Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that our evangelization at this hour has taken on a new tone and urgency\u2014one that St. John Paul II\u2014the pope who canonized St. Faustina\u2014immediately recognized:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>My direct contact with peoples who do not know Christ has convinced me even more of the urgency of missionary activity&#8230; When we consider this immense portion of humanity which is loved by the Father and for whom he sent his Son, the urgency of the Church&#8217;s mission is obvious.<\/strong> \u2014POPE JOHN PAUL II, <em>Redemptoris\u00a0Missio, <\/em>n. 1, 3; <a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_07121990_redemptoris-missio.html\">vatican.va<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And when in a hurry, things can get a little messy. In today&#8217;s Gospel, the mission of Jesus seemed not only scandalous to the Pharisees, the keepers of the Law, but to Christ&#8217;s very own <em>family. <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">Jesus came with his disciples into the house. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat.\u00a0When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, \u201cHe is out of his mind.\u201d(Today&#8217;s Gospel)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several in the family of the Church think Pope Francis is out\u00a0of his mind\u00a0as he darts about washing women&#8217;s feet,\u00a0being interviewed by atheists, and welcoming pagans to the Vatican. Agree or disagree with his approach, there is nothing hidden about his &#8220;agenda&#8221;. He\u00a0seems to be in a hurry to let everyone know that no matter how sinful they are, Christ will never turn them away. Francis is merely reflecting the Heart of Christ at this hour:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I do not want to punish aching mankind, but I desire to heal it, pressing it to My Merciful Heart. I use punishment when they themselves force Me to do so; My hand is reluctant to take hold of the sword of justice. Before the Day of Justice I am sending the Day of Mercy&#8230; Determined is the day of justice, the day of divine wrath. The angels tremble before it. Speak to souls about this great mercy while it is still the time for [granting] mercy. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2014Jesus to St. Faustina, <em>Divine Mercy in My Soul,<\/em> Diary, n. 1588, 635<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, Jesus, too, seems to be in a\u00a0hurry once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>AMERICAN SUPPORTERS&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>The Canadian exchange rate is at another\u00a0historic low.<\/strong> For every dollar you donate to this ministry at this time, it adds almost another $.41 to your donation. 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