In his homily yesterday, Pope Francis invited the faithful to pray for the grace
to build the Kingdom of God quietly. The Kingdom does not grow through spectacles,
he said, but it instead blossoms through the silent witness of those living
prayerful lives:
The Kingdom of God is humble, like the seed: humble but it becomes great
by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is up to us to let it grow in us, without
boasting about it: let the Spirit come, change our soul and carry us forward in
silence, in peace, in tranquility, in closeness to God, to others, in worship
of God, without spectacle.
Saint John Paul II
was the first to call for a New Evangelization, and
he encouraged the faithful to bear witness to the beauty of faith in Jesus
Christ, particularly in historically Christian cultures where many have taken
their eyes off of Him. As Pope Francis said yesterday, this New Evangelization
does not require spectacles. It requires that we silently and humbly live
prayerful lives.
St. John Paul II,
pray for us, that we may allow the Holy Spirit to quietly build the Kingdom of
God in us.
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