AsiaNews<\/a>)<\/p>\nFrancis\u2019 conversion to Christ, \u201cthe desire to \u2018transform himself\u2019 in Him\u201d is key to understanding the life of the saint from Assisi, which has become the model and ideal for the commitment on many modern day themes: \u201cthe search for peace, safeguarding nature, promotion of dialogue between men. Francis is a true master of all these things. But he is because based in Christ. Christ in fact is \u201cour peace\u201d (Eph 2, 14). Christ is the very centre of the cosmos, because through him all things were made ( Jn 1, 3)\u201d.<\/p>\nBy centring the Poor man from Assisi in Christ, Benedict XVI re-vindicated the figure of Francis from attempted ideological and religious manipulation, which tends to portray him as an ephemeral ecologist in love with nature, or as a \u201csoft hearted\u201d soul, open to everything and everyone, an \u201cexcessive interlocutor\u201d, forgetful of his Christian identity and of the Gospel.<\/p>\n
During the homily in the square below the basilica, the Pope traced the personality and conversion of Francis referring to the figures of the converted described today in liturgy of the word, on the XI Sunday of the year. <\/font><\/i><\/p>\nHe recalled above all the personage and sin of David, fallen \u201clow\u201d and \u201cblinded by his passion for Bethsabe\u201d. Francis, continued Benedict XVI, perhaps did not sin as David, but \u2013 according to his own accounts as laid out in his testament – \u201cabove and beyond single episodes, his conceiving and pursuit of vain dreams of earthly glory was sinful\u201d: His \u201cnaturally generous soul\u201d did not allow him to dominate \u201cthe physical disgust\u201d when faced with lepers. \u201cBy serving the lepers, by kissing them \u2013 underlined the Pope \u2013 he was not merely making a philanthropic gesture, it was not just a ‘social conversion\u2019, no, it was a religious experience, commanded by the initiative of God\u2019s grace and by love for God\u2026.man is truly realised by the measure in which he lives with God and in God, recognising and loving him in his fellow man\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Pontiff then went on to compares Francis and the apostle Paul, the first who speaks of \u201cstigmata\u201d on his body, thus clearly marking the ecclesial nature of their commitment, nota s simple bearers of good values or activists. \u201cIn the discussion over how to live in an upright way, or how to live the Gospel \u2013 affirmed the Pope \u2013 in the end, the arguments of thought to no twin; the reality of life has the final word, communion lived and suffered with Christ, not just in thoughts or in words, but to the very depths of existence involving the body and the flesh. The bruises which emerge from a long story of passion and torment are the witness of Christ\u2019s cross on the body of Saint Paul, they are his stigmata\u201d. And turning again to Francis he adds: \u201chis journey was the daily strain to become like Christ. He fell in love with Christ. The wounds of the cross pained his heart, before they marked his body on the Verna. He really could say together with Paul: \u2018I no longer live, it is Christ who lives in me\u2019\u201d:<\/p>\n
The third figure recalled by the Pope is that of the sinner whom Christ forgives because \u201cthey have greatly loved\u201d. \u201cIn Christ \u2013 adds the Pope \u2013 God gifts us love and asks us for love\u201d. And he adds: \u201cMy dear brothers and sisters what else was the life of Francis converted if not a great gesture of love? His passionate prayers reveal this, rich in contemplation and praise, his tender embrace of the Child in Greccio, his contemplation of the passion in a Verna, his «living according to the way of the Sacred Gospel\u201d (2 Test 14: FF 116), his choice of poverty and his search for Christ in the face of the poor. This is his conversion to Christ, to the very point of wanting to \u2018transform himself\u2019 into Him, becoming in him a complete image, which explains his typical way of life making it relevant in all times regarding the great themes of today, such as the search for peace, safeguarding nature, the promotion of dialogue between all men. Francis is a true master of these things. But he is because based in Christ. Christ in fact is \u201cour peace\u201d (Eph 2, 14). Christ is the very centre of the cosmos, because through him all things were made (Jn 1, 3)\u2026 Christ is the divine truth, the eternal «Logos», in which all «dia-logos» finds its foundation. Francis profoundly incarnates this \u201cChristological\u201d truth which is at the very root of human existence, of the cosmos and of History\u201d.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Da han feiret 800-\u00e5rsjubileet for Frans av Assisis omvendelse, understreket pave Benedikt den «fattige mannen fra Assisi»s kristne forst\u00e5else av livet og av verden, som var frukten av Frans’ kj\u00e6rlighet til Kristus. Alle som har v\u00e6rt i Assisi gjenkjenner plassen nedenfor Francesco-basilikaen i Assisi, der paven i g\u00e5r holdt messe og i sin peken b\u00e5de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katolsk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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