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Vatican City, Jun 6, 2013 \/ 10:40 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Francis said everyone has \u201chidden idols\u201d buried in their personalities and recommended discovering and discarding them in order to better follow God.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIdolatry is subtle, we all have our hidden idols, and the path of life to follow to not be far from the kingdom of God involves discovering our hidden idols,\u201d said Pope Francis.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe idols, hidden in the many saddles, which we have in our personalities, in the way we live. Drive out the idol of worldliness, which leads us to become enemies of God,\u201d he prayed June 6 during morning Mass.<\/p>\n

\tThe Pope made his comments in a homily on Mark 12 at the chapel of the Saint Martha\u2019s House.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThere is a danger of idolatry, which is brought to us through the spirit of the world. And in this Jesus was clear, the spirit of the world? \u2018No.\u2019\u201d said Pope Francis.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAt the Last Supper he asks the Father to defend us from the spirit of the world, because the spirit of the world leads us to idolatry,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n

\tHe said people \u201chide their idols in a saddle\u201d like the Bible passage that tells how Rachel, Jacob's wife, pretends she is not carrying idols, which she took from her father's house and hides in her saddle.
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\n\t\u201cBut we have to look for them and we have to destroy them because, to follow God, the only path is that of a love based on loyalty,\u201d Pope Francis said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cLoyalty demands we drive out our idols, that we uncover them,\u201d he remarked. \u201cThey are hidden in our personality, in our way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAccording to the pontiff, \u201cthese hidden idols mean that we are not faithful in love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWhoever is a friend of the world is an idolater, is not faithful to the love of God!\u201d he taught.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe path that is not distant, that advances, moves forward in the Kingdom of God, is a path of loyalty which resembles that of married love,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\tThe Pope asked \u201ceven with our small or not so small idolatries, how is it possible not to be faithful to a love so great?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cTo do this, you need to trust in Christ, who is total loyalty and who loves us so much,\u201d he affirmed.<\/p>\n

\tThe pontiff focused his homily on the Bible passage in which a scribe asked Jesus what the first commandment was and after Jesus responded and the scribe approved of his reply, Jesus said, \u201cyou are not far from the Kingdom of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWith that \u2018you are not far,\u2019 Jesus wanted to say to the scribe, \u201cyou know the theory very well, but you are still some distance from the Kingdom of God,\u201d said the Pope.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThat is, you have to walk to transform this commandment into reality because we profess God through our way of life,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Jos\u00e9 Vitti of Curitiba, Brazil, Archbishop Juan Segura of Ibiza, Spain and Archbishop Chirayath Anthony of Sagar, India concelebrated the Mass with him.<\/p>\n

\tLateran University employees, its vice rector, Monsignor Patrick Valdrini, staff from the Vatican Library and its vice-prefect Ambrose Piazzoni also attended the Eucharistic celebration.
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