During his daily homily in Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis spoke of hypocrisy. He said Christians must be \u201ccured\u201d of it and \u201cthe medicine is pointing the finger at oneself.\u201d<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope recommended a spiritual exercise to fight this evil. It is for each Christian to learn how to accuse themselves and recognize the evil, envious or destructive thoughts they carry inside before God. <\/p>\n EXCERPTS OF PAPAL HOMILY Jesus often calls hypocritical Pharisees \u201cwhitened sepulchers\u201d. This is not an insult, says the Pope, \u201cit is the truth\u201d. He goes on to explain that \u201ca hypocritical attitude stems from the great liar, the devil\u201d. The Pope says the devil is the \u201cgreat hypocrite\u201d, adding that all other hypocrites are his \u201cheirs\u201d.<\/p>\n Pope Francis goes on to say that anyone who may think \u201cthis form of hypocrisy does not exist\u201d is mistaken. Though it is not \u201cnormal\u201d, he says, it is \u201ccommon\u201d to \u201cappear in one way but be another\u201d. An example of this, says the Pope, is in the fight for power. Jealousy makes you act in a certain way, with poison within, poison to kill, he says, because hypocrisy \u201calways kills\u201d. <\/p>\n The cure for this hypocrisy, continues the Pope, is in learning to \u201cpoint the finger at ourselves. We must open up before God and release what we have inside us. This spiritual exercise, he says, is not common, \u201cbut we must try to do it\u201d. We must see the hypocrisy and evil that we have in our heart, because the devil does sow evil. But whoever is unable to point the finger at themselves, is \u201cnot a good Christian\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n Concluding his homily, Pope Francis recalls Peter\u2019s prayer in which he tells the Lord \u201cDepart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord\u201d, reminding the faithful of the importance of acknowledging our wrongs. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 15th, 2019. The pope recommended a spiritual exercise to fight this: recognize the evil, envious or destructive thoughts inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ws1BHBEPJVY","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1510eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1510int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47536"}],"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=47536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo appear one way and be another. In the struggle for power, for example, envy and jealousy make you appear a certain way. Yet inside, there is poison to kill. Because hypocrisy always kills. It always, sooner or later, kills.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSource: Vatican news<\/strong><\/p>\n