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<span>Posted:</span> 07 May 2013 07:17 AM PDT</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 140%; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 13px;"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Trappings Of The Evil One Are Subtle!</span></h2>
<div>By: Catherine Harmon<img class="yiv1677940971alignright yiv1677940971size-full yiv1677940971wp-image-4752" alt="pope-francis-2-300" src="http://www.courageouspriest.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pope-francis-2-300.jpg" width="300" height="400"></div>
<div>“There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world: let this be clear!” Pope Francis reminded the faithful during his homily at this morning’s Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel. <a title="news.va" href="http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-at-mass-fighting-evil-with-meekness-a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vatican Radio has excerpts from and a summary of the homily:</a></div>
<div>“The way of the Christians is the way of Jesus,” he said. “If we want to be followers of Jesus, there is no other way: none other than that, which He indicated to us—and one of the consequences of this is hatred—it is the hatred of the world, and also the prince of this world. The world would love that which belongs to it. [But Jesus tells us], ‘I have chosen you, from the world’: it was precisely He, who rescued us from the world, who chose us—pure grace! <b>With His death, His resurrection, He redeemed us from the power of the world, from the power of the devil, from the power of the prince of this world.</b> The origin of the hate [we experience], then is this: that we are saved. It is that prince who does not want that we should have been saved, who hates.”</div>
<div>…There are “many persecuted Christian communities in the world…indeed there are more persecuted communities in this time than in the early days: today, right now, in this day and in this hour.” Asking himself why this is the case, the Pope said, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">“Because the spirit of the world hates.”</span> From this comes a perennially valid admonishment:</div>
<div>“There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world: let this be clear! Today, dialogue is necessary among us humans, it is necessary for peace. … But with that prince, it is impossible to dialogue; one can only respond with the Word of God who defends us, for the world hates us—and just as he did with Jesus, so will he do with us. ‘Only look,’ he will say, ‘just do this one small little scam…it is a small matter, nothing really.” And so he begins to lead us on a road that is slightly off. This is a pious lie: ‘Do it, do it, do it: there is no problem,’ and it begins little by little, always, no? <b>Then [he says]: ‘But…you’re good, you’re a good person—You [get away with] it.’ It is flattering—and he softens us by flattery: and then, we fall into the trap.”</b></div>
<div>… “You may ask the question,” continued Pope Francis, ‘Father, what is the weapon to defend against these seductions, from these blandishments, these enticements that the prince of this world offers?’ The weapon is the same weapon of Jesus, the Word of God—not dialogue, but always the Word of God, and then humility and meekness. … These are the weapons that the prince and spirit of this world does not tolerate, for his proposals are proposals for worldly power, proposals of vanity, proposals for ill-gotten riches.”</div>
<div>“Today,” continued Pope Francis, “Jesus reminds us of this hatred that the world has against us, against the followers of Jesus.”…The Pope concluded with an invocation to the Virgin Mary, asking her, “to help us become meek and humble in the way of Jesus.”</div>
<div>Originally Posted at: <a title="prince of the world" href="http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/2235/Pope_Francis_There_can_be_no_dialogue_with_the_prince_of_this_world.aspx#.UYkJ66Mo6M_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Catholic World Report</a></div>
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