During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis warned against relentless fury, a type of hatred he said always indicates the presence of the devil.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> He explained that silence is the appropriate response to daily \u201csmall acts of fury,\u201d including gossip. He said it is important to know when to dialogue and when to remain silent.<\/p>\n SUMMARY OF POPE'S HOMILY<\/p>\n (Source: Vatican News)<\/p>\n Pope Francis said that the first reading, from the book of Wisdom, reads almost like a news report about what will happen to Jesus. \u201cIt\u2019s almost an historical account of what will happen later,\u201d he said. It tells how \u201cthe wicked\u201d are obsessed with Jesus because He reproves them for their evil way of life; and so they plan to test Him \u201cwith revilement and torture,\u201d and ultimately \u201ccondemn Him to a shameful death.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not simple hatred,\u201d the pope said, but a kind of \u201crelentless fury\u201d that is inspired by the devil. As he did with Job, the devil tries to separate people from God, \u201cto destroy the work of God.\u201d This type of fierce determination to destroy others comes \u201cfrom the devil.\u201d It can be seen not only in how the devil attacked Jesus, but also in the persecution of Christians. The devil, said Pope Francis, uses \u201cthe most sophisticated means to lead [Christians] to apostasy, to lead them away from God\u201d \u2013 and this is literally \u201cdiabolic.\u201d<\/p>\n How should we respond to such ferocious determination, the pope asked? He said there are only two appropriate ways to react: to dialogue, or to remain silent. We should do what Jesus did: In the Gospels, we see that Jesus spoke out, but when He knew that words would do not any good, He was silent. In the face of \u201cthe spirit of fury,\u201d Jesus remained silent, the pope emphasized, and in silence, He underwent His Passion.<\/p>\n Silence, said Pope Francis, is also the appropriate response to the \u201clittle acts of fury\u201d that we face each day, such as gossip. Chattering about people behind their back, gossiping about them, is a kind of \u201csocial harassment,\u201d not as strong as persecution, perhaps, but nonetheless a kind of fury, because it destroys others.<\/p>\n \u201cLet us ask the Lord for the grace to fight against the evil spirit,\u201d the pope said in conclusion, \u201cto dialogue when we need to dialogue, but, in the face of the spirit of fury, to have the courage to remain silent, and allow others to speak.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 27, 2020. He said silence is the appropriate response to daily \u201csmall acts of fury.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8P5NF9CNoq0","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta2703omeliaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta2703omeliaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46832"}],"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=46832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRelentless fury is very subtle. Let's think about how the devil used this relentless fury not only against Jesus, but in the persecution of Christians. He looked for the most sophisticated methods to bring them to apostasy, to distance them from God. This is, as we say colloquially, diabolic.<\/em><\/p>\n