During his daily morning Mass, Pope Francis asked Christians to avoid living a double life. He explained that Jesus rejected people who lived a hypocritical life.
POPE FRANCIS
'Jesus condemns this 'cosmetic spirituality,' which attempts to look good, beautiful â?? but the truth inside is something else. Jesus condemns the people of good manners but of bad habits, those habits that are not seen, but practiced in secret.â?
The Pope concluded that living concrete charity is the best way of fighting hipocresy, as well as what he called the 'dictatorship of money.â?
SUMMARY OF THE POPE MASS
(Source: Vatican Radio)
'Jesus condemns this cosmetic spirituality, [which attempts to] look good, beautiful â?? but the truth inside is something else. Jesus condemns the people of good manners but of bad habits, those habits that are not seen, but practice in secret. Everything seems in place: these people who liked to walk in the streets, to be seen praying, to â??make themselves with a little 'weakness when fasting. Is the Lord perhaps like this? You see that there are two adjectives he uses here, [distinct], but related: greed and wickedness.â?
'That, which avails, is faith â?? which faith? That, â??which worketh by loveâ?? â?? [this is] the same thing Jesus said to the Pharisee: a faith that is not merely reciting the Creed â?? we all believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, eternal life. We all believe! This, however, is a [static] faith, not one that is â??at workâ??. That, which in Christ Jesus avails, is the hard work that comes from faith, or rather the faith that works through charity â?? that is, the faith that returns to almsgiving â?? almsgiving in the broadest sense of the word: of detaching oneself from the dictatorship of money, from the idolatry of lucre. Every disordered desire distances us from Jesus Christ.â?
'Jesus offers us this advice: â??Do not sound the trumpetâ??. The second piece of advice: â??Do not give only of your excessâ?? â?? and He is speaking to us of that old woman who gave everything she had to live on, and He praises that woman for having done it â?? and she did it half-secretly, for she was ashamed not to be able to give more.â?
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