During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis warned against idolatry, referencing the Israelites, who, after being freed from Egypt, created golden idols instead of worshiping the living God.<\/p>\n
He explained that idols aren't limited to statues, but are all those things that keep a person away from God.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope reminded Christians to ask for the grace to recognize their own idols. He said if one can't completely throw one's idols away, it's important to at least keep them in a corner, where they do less damage.<\/p>\n SUMMARY OF POPE'S HOMILY<\/strong><\/p>\n Source: Vatican<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a true apostasy. From the Living God to idolatry, not knowing how to wait for the Living God. This nostalgia is an illness, which is ours. We begin to walk enthusiastically toward freedom, but then the complaining begins: \u2018This is really difficult. It's a desert. I\u2019m thirsty. I want water. I want meat. In Egypt we ate good things. There's nothing here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis mechanism also happens to us. When we do things that lead us to idolatry, we become attached to things that distance us from God. We make another god with the gifts that the Lord has given us: with our intelligence, our will, our love, our heart. We use God\u2019s very gifts to make idols.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMay the Lord not find us at the end of our lives and say to us: \u2018You apostatized. You deviated from the way that I marked out. You prostrated yourself before an idol.\u2019 We ask the Lord for the grace of recognizing our own idols.\u201d <\/p>\n CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 26, 2020. The pope said idols aren't limited to golden statues, but are all those things that distance the person from God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iBap3OFCNXI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta2603homiliaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta2603homiliaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46836"}],"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=46836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhen we do things that lead us to idolatry, we become attached to things that distance us from God. We make another god with the gifts that the Lord has given us, with our intelligence, our will, our love, our heart.<\/em><\/p>\n