{"id":17254,"date":"2016-01-19T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T06:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=17254"},"modified":"2016-01-18T07:21:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:21:30","slug":"pope-hearts-closed-to-the-spirit-do-not-reach-the-full-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2016\/01\/19\/pope-hearts-closed-to-the-spirit-do-not-reach-the-full-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope: Hearts Closed to the Spirit Do Not Reach the Full Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"breadcrumbs\">The Pope criticized the behavior of Christians who, attached to the &#8220;it&#8217;s always been that way,&#8221; end up closing themselves to the surprises of the Holy Spirit<\/p>\n<\/nav>\n<div id=\"content-post\">\n<article id=\"post-31360\" class=\"post-31360 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-homilia-casa-santa-marta category-noticias category-papa\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>The newsroom, with Vatican Radio<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cboxElement\" title=\"Papa tem o h\u00e1bito de celebrar Missas na Casa Santa Marta diariamente \/ Foto: L'Osservatore Romano\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsofttranslator.com\/bv.aspx?from=pt&amp;to=en&amp;a=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.cancaonova.com%2Fcnimages%2Fespeciais%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2016%2F01%2Fmissa-papa1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[31360]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31361\" src=\"http:\/\/img.cancaonova.com\/cnimages\/especiais\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/missa-papa1.jpg\" alt=\"Papa tem o h\u00e1bito de celebrar Missas na Casa Santa Marta diariamente \/ Foto: L'Osservatore Romano\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Christians who stop at apology &#8220;was always so&#8221; have a heart closed the the\u00a0surprises of the Holy Spirit and will never reach the fullness of truth because they are idolaters\u00a0and rebels. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">This was the teaching of the Pope at mass Monday, January 18, in Casa Santa Marta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">On first reading, Saul is rejected by God as King of Israel because he&#8217;d rather listen to the people instead of the will of the Lord and disobey. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">The people, after a victory in the battle, wanted to perform a sacrifice to God with the best head of cattle because, says the people, &#8220;we&#8217;ve always done it this way&#8221;. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">But God, this time, didn&#8217;t want it done this way. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">The Prophet Samuel admonishes Saul: &#8220;&#8216;The Lord wants\u00a0burnt offerings and sacrifices or does He want obedience to His word?&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The Pope noted that Jesus teaches the same in the Gospel: the doctors of the law reprimand Him because his disciples had not fasted as had been done by them. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Jesus responds to this principle of life: &#8220;nobody puts a patch of new cloth on old clothes; <\/span><span lang=\"en\">because the patch again will stress\u00a0the old cloth and the tear becomes bigger. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">No one puts new wine in old skins; <\/span><span lang=\"en\">because the new wine bursts the old skins and the wine and the wineskins are lost. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">So, new wine goes into new bottles &#8216;! &#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&#8220;What does that mean? <\/span><span lang=\"en\">The law changes? <\/span><span lang=\"en\">No! <\/span><span lang=\"en\">That law is at the service of man, who in turn is in the service of God. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">So, the man must have an open heart. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">The &#8216; always have done it this way\u00a0&#8216; is heart closed and Jesus told us: &#8216; I will send the Holy Spirit and He will lead you to the full truth &#8216;. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">If you have the heart closed to the newness of the Spirit, you will never come to the full truth. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">And your Christian life will be a half and half life, new things, but patched on a structure that is not open to the voice of the Lord. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">A closed heart, because it is not able to change the &#8220;skins.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Francis explained that this was the sin of King Saul, by which he\u00a0was rejected. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">It is the sin of many Christians in relation to what has always been done and\u00a0who do\u00a0not allow the change of skins. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">So, they end up with a life in\u00a0half, patched, meaningless. The Pope explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&#8220;Diehard Christians in &#8216;it has always been that way, this is the way, this is the road, Sin: SIN\u00a0of\u00a0deification. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s like a fortune teller. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s more important what was said and that it does not change;<\/span><span lang=\"en\">What I feel, in\u00a0me and my closed heart, more than the word of the Lord. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">It is also the sin of idolatry.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en\">And what is the way? <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Open your hearts to the Holy Spirit, to discern what is the will of God. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The Holy Father concluded his homily stressing the message that the Church leaves today, that is this strong word of Jesus: new wine in new skins. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">&#8220;Given the newness of the spirit and of God surprises, habits must renew. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">May the Lord grant us the grace of an open heart, a heart open to the voice of the spirit, to learn to discern what should not change because it is unfounded, of what must change in order to receive the news of the Holy Spirit. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papa.cancaonova.com\/papa-coracoes-fechados-ao-espirito-nao-chegam-a-verdade-plena\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope criticized the behavior of Christians who, attached to the &#8220;it&#8217;s always been that way,&#8221; end up closing themselves to the surprises of the Holy Spirit The newsroom, with Vatican Radio Christians who stop at apology &#8220;was always so&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17255,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions\/17255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}