During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, the pope explained the duty to spread the word of Christ should not be confused with a complex advertising campaign.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Pope Francis said a Catholic must understand that the best way to proclaim the Gospel is through the testimony of his or her own life.<\/p>\n SUMMARY OF PAPAL HOMILY<\/strong><\/p>\n (Source: Vatican News)<\/p>\n The Pope focused his reflection on announcing the Gospel urging believers to put aside \u201cthat attitude, that sin, that vice\u201d that each of us has \u201cwithin\u201d in order to be \u201cmore coherent\u201d and to be able to be credible in proclaiming Jesus with our own witness.<\/p>\n Taking his cue from the First Reading in which Saint Paul explains how faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ, the Pope highlighted the importance of the proclamation of the Gospel,\u201d the proclamation that Christ died and was resurrected to save us. To proclaim Jesus Christ, he said, is not just bringing \u201csimple news\u201d but \u201cthe only great Good News\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He underscored the fact that it has nothing to do with advertising a good person who has done good, has healed many people and taught us beautiful things: \u201cNo, it's not advertising. It's not Proselytizing (\u2026) it is not what a preacher does according to the logic of marketing.\u201d <\/p>\n Announcing Christ, the Pope continued, is neither proselytism nor advertising nor marketing: it goes well beyond. Thus, he reflected on the mission of the apostle who puts his own life on the line and he recalled an Argentinean saying that uses the image of \u201cputting one\u2019s own flesh on the grill:\u201d that is, really putting oneself at stake. <\/p>\n He specified that \u201cthis journey to announce the Gospel by putting my life on the line\u201d is a one-way journey: \u201cThere is no return ticket\u201d the Pope said, \u201cturning back would be apostasy\u201d while testimony means \u201cputting one\u2019s life on the line\u201d and \u201cdoing what I say I do\u201d.<\/p>\n He called for coherence in life which is what gives credibility to witness and described those who \u201cput their lives on the line to the end\u201d as martyrs.<\/p>\n He recalled how God the Father 'to make himself known' sent 'his Son in the flesh who gave his own life\u201d and said this is fact that \u201ccontinues to scandalize\u201d because God became \u201cone of us on a one-way journey\u201d.<\/p>\n He pointed out that the devil tried to convince Jesus to take another path, but He lived in accordance with the will of the Father until the end. The Pope upheld the witness of martyrs whom, he said, are those who show the proclamation is true.<\/p>\n He spoke of men and women who have given their lives - the apostles gave their lives \u2013 but also of the many unseen men and women in our society and in our families, who bear witness every day, in silence, with their lives and their coherence to Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 30, 2018. He said that a Catholic must understand that the best way to proclaim the Gospel is with the testimony of one's life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1Ol0n3nFL_M","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta3011eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta3011int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48650"}],"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=48650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n'What is announcing Christ? It is neither proselytizing, nor advertising, nor marketing. It goes beyond that. How can we understand this?'<\/em><\/p>\n