Vatican
City, 22 April 2013
(VIS) – The reflection on Jesus as the “door” to enter into the
Kingdom of God was the central theme of this morning's Mass
celebrated by the Pope in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, at which the
personnel of the Press Office of the Holy See and various technicians
of Vatican Radio were in attendance.
The
Holy Father recalled that in today's Gospel, which narrated the story
of the Good Shepherd, Jesus asserted that: “whoever doesn't enter
the sheepfold by the gate is not the shepherd. … He is a thief or a
robber,” the Pope said, “someone seeking his own profit. ...There
are also such people in the Christian community, who seek their own
profit and, consciously or unconsciously, pretend to enter at the
door. But they are thieves … because the steal Jesus' glory and
seek their own. … They have not entered by the true door. … The
true door is Jesus and whoever does not enter by this door errs.”
“How
do we know that the true door is Jesus?” the pontiff asked.
“Reading what the Beatitudes say, as they are told in St. Matthew:
'Be humble, be poor, be meek, be just' … When they give you another
suggestion, don't listen to it. The door is always Jesus and whoever
enters by that door is not mistaken. Jesus isn't only the door; He is
the way, the path. There are many paths: some seems more advantageous
for arriving but they are misleading. They are false.”
“Let
us ask today for the grace to always knock at that door. …
Sometimes we have problems doing so. But we don't have to go looking
for other, easier doors. The door is Jesus, who doesn't disappoint,
who doesn't deceive. He has given his life for us. And each of us has
to say: 'You have given your life for me, open, please, that I might
enter. Open, Lord, because I want to enter by 'this' door, not by
that other,” Pope Francis concluded.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment