During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, the pope said Jesus came into the world to take everyone's sins upon Himself. Pope Francis asked Christians to look at the crucifix in light of the Redemption.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope explained that comprehending the mystery of the cross is not easy. He said one will never arrive at a conclusion. \u201cWe can only contemplate, pray and give thanks,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n EXCERPTS FROM POPE'S HOMILY<\/p>\n (Source: Vatican News)<\/p>\n \u201cA serpent is certainly not a friendly animal.... They're always associated with evil. Even in Revelation, the serpent is specifically the animal that the devil uses in order to cause sin. In the Book of Revelation, the devil is called the \u2018ancient serpent,\u2019 the one who from the beginning bites, poisons, destroys, kills.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt's always the same music. \u2018Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert?\u2019 \u2026. Their imagination\u2026always went back to Egypt. \u2018We were doing well there. We ate well.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cIt also seems that the Lord can't put up with His people at this moment. He gets angry. The wrath of God is seen at times, and so, \u2018the Lord sent among the people seraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died.\u2019 At that time the serpent was always the image of evil. In seeing the serpents, the people saw their sin\u2026what they had done wrong\u2026. They repent.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe core of the prophecy is that Jesus made Himself sin for us. He did not sin; He made Himself sin. As St. Peter says in his letter, \u2018He bore all of our sins in Himself,\u2019 and so, when we gaze on the crucifix, we think about the Lord who suffers, and all of that is true. But let's stop a moment in order to arrive at the center of that truth. \u2018At this moment you seem to be the greatest sinner! You made yourself sin.\u2019 He took upon himself all of our sins\u2026. There was a vendetta by the doctors of the law who didn't want Him. All of that is true, but the truth that comes from God is that He came into the world to take our own sins upon Himself to the point of making Himself sin\u2026. Our sins are there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt's not easy to understand this and should we think about it, we'll never arrive at a conclusion. We can only contemplate, pray, and give thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi March 31, 2020. He said Christians need to make a habit of looking at the crucifix in this light, in light of the Redemption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5S_yX_wO0DQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantamartahomilia3103eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantamartahomilia3103int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn Jesus, made sin, we see the utter defeat of Christ. He doesn't pretend to die. He doesn't pretend to suffer, alone, abandoned. 'Father, why have you forsaken me?'<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTranslation: Claudia Torres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"