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Pope Francis - Jesus Was a Failure?
Jimmy Akin
September 29, 2015
In his recent homily at St. Patrick’s Cathedral,
Pope Francis said that Jesus was a failure.
In his Sept. 24 vespers homily at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, addressing a group of priests Pope Francis said:
We have been entrusted with a great responsibility, and God’s people rightly expect accountability from us.
But the true worth of our apostolate is measured by the value it has in God’s eyes.
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To see and evaluate things from God’s perspective calls for constant conversion
in the first days and years of our vocation and, need I say, it calls for great humility.
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The cross shows us a different way of measuring success.
And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and produce no fruit, we need to remember
that we are followers of Jesus and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure,
in the failure of the cross.
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Jimmy Akin
September 29, 2015
In his recent homily at St. Patrick’s Cathedral,
Pope Francis said that Jesus was a failure.
In his Sept. 24 vespers homily at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, addressing a group of priests Pope Francis said:
We have been entrusted with a great responsibility, and God’s people rightly expect accountability from us.
But the true worth of our apostolate is measured by the value it has in God’s eyes.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To see and evaluate things from God’s perspective calls for constant conversion
in the first days and years of our vocation and, need I say, it calls for great humility.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The cross shows us a different way of measuring success.
And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and produce no fruit, we need to remember
that we are followers of Jesus and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure,
in the failure of the cross.
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