Pope Francis issues an Apostolic Letter "Patris Corde" proclaiming a year of St. Joseph. bit.ly/2K4Y360 "Saint Joseph reminds us that those who appear hidden or in the shadows can play an incomparable role in the history of salvation." (Icon William Hart McNichols)
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"Here, once again, we encounter that Christian realism which rejects nothing that exists. Reality, in its mysterious and irreducible complexity, is the bearer of existential meaning, with all its lights and shadows..."
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"Nor should we ever think that believing means finding facile and comforting solutions. The faith Christ taught us is what we see in Saint Joseph. He did not look for shortcuts, but confronted reality with open eyes and accepted personal responsibility for it."
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"God always finds a way to save us, provided we show the same creative courage as the carpenter of Nazareth, who was able to turn a problem into a possibility by trusting always in divine providence."
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"If at times God seems not to help us, surely this does not mean that we have been abandoned, but instead are being trusted to plan, to be creative, and to find solutions ourselves."
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You're retweeting Bronze Age apocalyptic political fiction that you don't understand. Just because the Pope doesn't either doesn't make it any better.
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