Pope Francis at Santa Marta: Ask yourself daily about your life – A daily examination of what happened throughout the day
During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, the pope recommended a daily examination of what happened throughout the day.
POPE FRANCIS
Before finishing the day, take two or three minutes: what important things happened inside me today? Oh, yes, I hated there and I gossiped there; I did that act of charity. Who helped you do these things, both bad and good? Ask these questions, to understand what happens inside.
The pope advised this exercise since sometimes people know the neighborhood gossip better than what is going on inside themselves.
HOMILY TEXT IN ENGLISH
Source: Vatican News
Pope Francis says there is always the struggle between grace and sin, between the Lord who wants to save and pull us out of this temptation and the bad spirit that always throws us down in order to win over. He thus urges Christians to ask themselves whether they walk down the street like one who comes and goes without realizing what is happening and to find out whether their decisions come “from the Lord” or are dictated by our “selfishness”, “by the devil”.
Before the end of the day, the Pope says, one needs to stop for two to three minutes to examine oneself whether anything important has happened that day. One can find a bit of hatred, speaking ill of others as well as an act of charity. To understand what goes on inside, one should ask who inspired these acts. At times, the Pope says, with our gossip mentality, we know what happens in the neighbourhood and in the neighbours’ house but we don’t know what happens inside us.
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Santa Marta: ‘What Leads You to do That?
The Struggle Between Good and Evil
“What’s going on inside us? What inspires you that? … What leads you to do that? “: Questions that every Christian must ask, said Pope Francis at the Mass he celebrated at Casa Santa Marta on October 25, 2019.
In his homily reported by Vatican News , the pope meditated on the “inner struggle” between “the desire to do good” and the fact of not being able “to put it into practice”: a real “war of all the days “, a” law for all “.
“It’s a struggle between good and bad,” he explained; but not an abstract good or an abstract evil: between the good that the Holy Spirit inspires us to do and the evil that the evil spirit inspires us to do … It is the struggle of all. If anyone among us said: “But I do not feel that, I am a blessed, I live quiet, in peace …”, I would say: “You are not a blessed: you are anesthetized, who does not understand not what happens.”
In this daily struggle, “to the end”, there are “extraordinary moments of struggle” but also “ordinary, everyday moments”.
“So often we Christians,” the Pope observed, “are busy in many things, including good ones … we only look at what interests us; the rest, we do not look at it … Sometimes, with the soul we all, we know what happens in the neighborhood, what happens to the neighbors, but not what happens in us.”
The struggle, he said, “is always between grace and sin, between the Lord who wants to save us and get us out of this temptation and the evil spirit that defeats us”. The pope wished the Christian to ask himself if his decisions come “from the Lord” or are dictated by his “selfishness”, by “the devil”, so as not to be “a person of the street who goes and comes without to see what’s going on. “
“It’s important to know what’s going on in us,” he said. It is important to live a little indoors, and not to let our soul become a road where everyone goes. “
It is, therefore, a question of asking yourself the right questions: “But what is happening in us? What inspires you? What is your spiritual tendency in this? What leads you to do that? The pope recommended an examination of conscience of “two-three minutes before finishing the day”: “What happened to me today? Oh, yes, I had a little hate there, and I spoke badly here; I did this work of charity … Who helped you to do these things, the bad ones as well as the good ones? “
Read the source: https://zenit.org/articles/santa-marta-what-leads-you-to-do-that/
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