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Pope: God save us from the "hegemonic uniformity” of the "one line of thought", " fruit of the spirit of the world that negotiates everything” even faith

"The globalizing conformity of all nations is not good, its better to be united but each with their own customs”. Those who negotiate their fidelity to the Lord , moved by the spirit of the world negotiate their own identity, belonging to a people, a people that God loves dearly and desires to be His people . But before this journey that the spirit of the world makes " the path of infidelity, there is always the Lord who can not deny Himself, the Faithful One: He is always waiting for us ."

Vatican City ( AsiaNews) - God save us from the "hegemonic uniformity " of the "one line of thought", "fruit of the spirit of the world that negotiates everything", even the faith.  This was Pope Francis' prayer during mass this morning at Casa Santa Marta, commenting on a passage from the Book of Maccabees, in which the leaders of the people do not want Israel to be isolated from other nations , and so abandon their traditions to negotiate with the king.

They go to "negotiate " and are excited about it. It is as if they said "we are progressives; let's follow progress like everyone else does".   As reported by Vatican Radio, the Pope noted that this is the "spirit of adolescent progressivism" according to which "any move forward and any choice is better than remaining within the routine of fidelity". These people, therefore , negotiate "loyalty to God who is always faithful" with the king. "This is called apostasy", "adultery." They are, in fact, negotiating their values​​, " negotiating the very essence of being faithful to the Lord ."

"And this is a contradiction: we do not negotiate values​​, but faithfulness. And this is the fruit of the devil, the prince of this world , who leads us forward with the spirit of worldliness.  And then there are the direct consequences. They accepted the habits of the pagan, then a further step: the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people, and everyone would abandon their customs. A globalizing conformity of all nations is not beautiful, rather, each with own customs but united, but it is the hegemonic uniformity of globalization, the single line of thought . And this single line of thought is the result of worldliness . "

And after "all peoples had adapted themselves to the king's demands, they also accepted his cult , they sacrificed to idols and profaned the sabbath ."Step by step", the moved along this path. And in the end "the king raised an abomination upon the altar of devastation". "But, Father , this also happens today ! . Yes, because the worldly spirit exists even today, even today it takes us with this desire to be progressive and have one single thought . If someone was found to have the Book of the Covenant and if someone obeyed the law, the king condemned them to death : and this we have read in the newspapers in recent months . These people have negotiated the fidelity to the Lord and this people , moved by the spirit of the world , negotiated their own identity , negotiated belonging to a people, a people that God loves so much that God desires to be like Him . "

The Pope then referred to the 20th century novel, "Master of the World" that focuses on "the spirit of worldliness that leads to apostasy". Today it is thought that "we have to be like everyone else, we have to be more normal , like everyone else, with this adolescent progressivism ." And then "what follows is history": "the death sentences, human sacrifices". "But you think that today there are no human sacrifice s? There are many, many ! And there are laws that protect them ."

" But what consoles us faced with the progress of this worldly spirit, the prince of this world , the path of infidelity, is that the Lord is always here, that he can not deny Himself , the Faithful One : He is always waiting for us, He loves us so much and He forgives us when we repent for a few steps, for some small steps in this spirit of worldliness, we go to him, the faithful God. With the spirit of the Church's children, we pray to the Lord for His goodness, His faithfulness to save us from this worldly spirit that negotiates all , to protect us and let us move forward, as his people did through the desert , leading them by the hand like a father leads his child. The hand of the Lord is a sure guide".

 

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