{"id":47038,"date":"2020-02-13T17:46:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2020\/02\/13\/pope-at-santa-marta-dismissing-small-sins-as-unimportant-can-gradually-lead-to-apostasy\/"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:46:00","slug":"pope-at-santa-marta-dismissing-small-sins-as-unimportant-can-gradually-lead-to-apostasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2020\/02\/13\/pope-at-santa-marta-dismissing-small-sins-as-unimportant-can-gradually-lead-to-apostasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope at Santa Marta: Dismissing small sins as unimportant can gradually lead to apostasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, <strong>the pope warned against small sins that can lead one to inadvertently distance him or herself from God.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>'Letting ourselves slide slowly, because it is an anesthetized fall. You don't even realize it, but slowly you slip. Things become relative and faithfulness to God is lost'.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope said this was the case with Solomon. He didn't commit one scandalous sin like his father, King David. Rather, he gradually moved away from God <strong>by committing small sins that eventually led him to worship other gods.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nEXTRACTS FROM POPE'S HOMILY<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style='font-size: 9px;'>Vatican<\/span><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe women led his heart astray, and the Lord rebuked him. \u2018You turned away your heart.\u2019 This happens in our own lives. None of us is a criminal; none of us commits great sins like David did with the wife of Uriah. But wherein lies the danger? Letting ourselves slide slowly, because it is an anesthetized fall. You don\u2019t even realize it, but slowly you slip. Things get relativized, and faithfulness to God is lost. These women were from other peoples \u2013 they had their own gods \u2013 and how often do we forget the Lord and begin to deal with other gods: money, vanity, pride. But this is done slowly, and without the grace of God, everything is lost.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor us this slippery slide in life is directed toward worldliness. This is the grave sin: \u2018Everyone is doing it. Don\u2019t worry about it; obviously it\u2019s not ideal, but\u2026\u2019 We justify ourselves with these words, at the price of losing our faithfulness to the one and only God. They are modern idols. Let us consider this sin of worldliness, of losing the authenticity of the Gospel, the authenticity of the Word of God, and the love of God who gave His life for us. There is no way to maintain a good relationship with God and with the devil.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLet us ask the Lord for the grace to understand when our heart begins to weaken and to slide, so that we can stop. His grace and love will stop that slide if we ask in prayer.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2020. He warned against following the example of Solomon, son of King David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bOtex2dG0dQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1302eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1302int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47038"}],"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=47038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}