Thanks so much for your newsletters on pope Leo and your analysis of his words and actions. It is so good to see him standing up for what is right! It’s refreshing and a needed break from the darkness of our sick president and his ilk.
I have been listening to Fr Mike Schmitz read The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis. I have the book too which I need to read. This morning in the reading it mentioned the evil in the world. I truly believe Trump is evil, the evil that comes from Satan. This article again is excellent in telling us, as Catholics, what we need to do. Pope Leo said the true strength of the of the Church lies in remaining gathered around Christ and sent by the Holy Spirit. This is directly from what Chris wrote “The pope warned that the Church strays from Christ whenever it starts chasing wealth, political clout, or big crowds — a temptation to power that he insisted must be rejected if Christians are to be faithful.” We have to focus on Jesus. He is most important in our lives and in our society. I believe the Holy Spirit sent Pope Leo to us to make changes.
“The true strength of the Church, he explained, “does not lie in her resources or structures” or in numbers or influence, “but in remaining gathered around Christ and sent by the Holy Spirit.”
Here is our strength, here is our peace, here is our identity.
Thanks so much for your newsletters on pope Leo and your analysis of his words and actions. It is so good to see him standing up for what is right! It’s refreshing and a needed break from the darkness of our sick president and his ilk.
It’s a petty man who belittles and demeans the vulnerable.
Our Pope Leo is just what our world needs. We all need to assist the vulnerable and welcome them.
I have been listening to Fr Mike Schmitz read The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis. I have the book too which I need to read. This morning in the reading it mentioned the evil in the world. I truly believe Trump is evil, the evil that comes from Satan. This article again is excellent in telling us, as Catholics, what we need to do. Pope Leo said the true strength of the of the Church lies in remaining gathered around Christ and sent by the Holy Spirit. This is directly from what Chris wrote “The pope warned that the Church strays from Christ whenever it starts chasing wealth, political clout, or big crowds — a temptation to power that he insisted must be rejected if Christians are to be faithful.” We have to focus on Jesus. He is most important in our lives and in our society. I believe the Holy Spirit sent Pope Leo to us to make changes.
“The true strength of the Church, he explained, “does not lie in her resources or structures” or in numbers or influence, “but in remaining gathered around Christ and sent by the Holy Spirit.”
Here is our strength, here is our peace, here is our identity.
Here grace stirs us, here grace abides.
“In Christ there is no east or west,
in him no south or north.”
— John Oxenham