{"id":15636,"date":"2013-05-05T16:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T21:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:20:09","slug":"like-only-nixon-could-go-to-china-can-only-pope-francis-preach-about-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2013\/05\/like-only-nixon-could-go-to-china-can-only-pope-francis-preach-about-the-devil.html","title":{"rendered":"Like Only Nixon Could Go To China, Can Only Pope Francis Preach About The Devil?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Let me tell you about the Adversary\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Show of hands, how many of you have you heard your parish priest mention the Devil in a homily? Pope Francis doesn\u2019t seem self conscious, or embarrassed, about doing so.<\/p>\n

This excerpt is from yesterday\u2019s Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae,<\/p>\n

\u201cThere can be no dialogue with the prince of this world: let this be clear! Today, dialogue is necessary among us humans, it is necessary for peace. Dialogue is a habit, it is an attitude that we must have among us to feel and understand each other\u2026and that [dialogue] must be maintained forever. Dialogue comes from charity, from love. But with that prince, it is impossible to dialogue: one can only respond with the Word of God who defends us, for the world hates us \u2013 and just as he did with Jesus, so will he do with us. \u2018Only look,\u2019 he will say, \u2018just do this one small little scam\u2026it is a small matter, nothing really \u2013 and so he begins to lead us on a road that is slightly off. This is a pious lie: \u2018Do it, do it, do it: there is no problem,\u2019 and it begins little by little, always, no? Then [he says]: \u2018But \u2026 you\u2019re good, you\u2019re a good person: You [get away with] it.\u2019 It is flattering \u2013 and he softens us by flattery: and then, we fall into the trap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Francis went on to say that the Lord asks us to remain sheep, because if one decides to quit the fold, then he does not have, \u201ca shepherd to defend him and he falls into the clutches of these wolves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may ask the question,\u201d continued Pope Francis, \u2018Father, what is the weapon to defend against these seductions, from these blandishments, these enticements that the prince of this world offers?\u2019. The weapon is the same weapon of Jesus, the Word of God \u2013 not dialogue \u2013 but always the Word of God, and then humility and meekness. We think of Jesus, when they give that slap: what humility! What meekness! He could have insulted him, no? One question, meek and humble. We think of Jesus in His Passion. His Prophet says: \u2018As a sheep going to the slaughter.\u2019 He does not cry out, not at all: humility. Humility and meekness. These are the weapons that the prince and spirit of this world does not tolerate, for his proposals are proposals for worldly power, proposals of vanity, proposals for ill-gotten riches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more at News.va<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More on Pope Francis, the Devil, and Jesuit Spirituality, can be found at CNS<\/a>, and at Father Z\u2019s blog<\/a>. And for extra credit, learn about Our Lady, Terror of Hell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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