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Vatican City, Jun 28, 2015 / 08:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Pope focused on the virtue of faith during his Sunday Angelus address, saying the whole gospel is written in its light.

“Faith is this: to touch Jesus and to draw from him the grace which saves,” Pope Francis explained June 28 at St. Peter's Square, reflecting on the healing of a haemorrhaging woman in the day's Gospel reading. She believed that if she could but touch Christ's clothes, she would be healed.

“And so it is,” said Pope Francis. “The need to be freed drives her to dare, and faith 'snatches', so to speak, healing from the Lord.”

He waxed on the Gospel reading, saying that the Father, through Christ's healing, in a sense, said “Daughter, you are not cursed, you are not excluded, rather, you are my daughter!”

“And every time Jesus comes to us, when we go to him with faith, we hear this from the Father: 'You are my son, you are my daughter! You are healed, you are healed. I forgive all, all. I heal everyone and everything.'”

Pope Francis also discussed Christ's raising of a 12 year old girl who had died, saying that in her father's appeal to Jesus, we feel “the great faith which this man has in Jesus.”

Christ's reaction – “Do not fear, only have faith” – give courage, the Pope said. “He says to us, so often: 'Do not fear, only have faith!'”

“These two episodes – a healing and a raising from death – have a single center: faith. The message is clear, and can be summarized in one question: do we believe that Jesus can heal and can raise from the dead? The whole Gospel is written in the light of this faith: Jesus is risen, has conquered death, and because of this victory we too will be resurrected.”

Francis lamented that “this faith, which for the first Christians was secure, can tarnish and become uncertain, to the point that some confuse resurrection with reincarnation.”
“The word of God this Sunday invites us to live in the certainty of the resurrection: Jesus is the Lord, Jesus has power over evil and over death, and wants to take us to the Father's house, where life reigns. And there we will meet all, all of us in this square today, we will meet in the Father's house, in
the life that Jesus gives us.”

He added that Christ's resurrection “acts in history as a principle of renewal and of hope. Anyone who is desperate and weary unto death, if they rely on Jesus and on his love, can begin to live again … faith is a force of life, it gives fullness to our humanity; and who believes in Christ must be recognized precisely because they promote life in all situations, so that everyone, especially the weakest, can experience the love of God which frees and saves.”

Concluding, Pope Francis said, “We ask the Lord, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, the gift of a strong and courageous faith, which drives us to speakers of hope and of life among our brethren.”

Idol worshippers. Babylon the great.

Christians don't need to ask the Lord through the intercession of the Virgin Mary
We talk directly to the Lord.

As Jesus performed his first miracle of turning water into wine...at the the intercession of our mother, Mary...

May he grant us also the miracles we need. Amen.

Sacred Heart of Jesus...have mercy on us.

Immaculate Heart of Mary...pray for us.

Mary, encouraging Jesus to fix the wine shortage problem, has nothing at all to do with praying to Mary

Mat 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Christians pray to God, who hears our prayers
Christians have a personal relationship with God
we don't ask someone to go to God for us.

Psa 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.


2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2Ch 7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attend unto the prayer that is made in this place.

Also we go to God to ask forgiveness of our sins
we don't go to man.

italo:
As Jesus performed his first miracle of turning water into wine...at the the intercession of our mother, Mary...

May he grant us also the miracles we need. Amen.

Sacred Heart of Jesus...have mercy on us.

Immaculate Heart of Mary...pray for us.

hehehehe.this is the result of interpreting the scriptures without the help of the holy ghost..I just dey watch oh..

johnw74:
Mary, encouraging Jesus to fix the wine shortage problem, has nothing at all to do with praying to Mary

Mat 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Christians pray to God, who hears our prayers
Christians have a personal relationship with God
we don't ask someone to go to God for us.

Psa 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.


2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2Ch 7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attend unto the prayer that is made in this place.

Also we go to God to ask forgiveness of our sins
we don't go to man.

Jesus didn't come to establish any relationship BTW man and Mary but man and God..I dare anybody to show me three scriptures from the old testament that portrays Mary as our intercessor.meanwhile,catholics are not bad people,they are just in error,and I have seen a lot of them come out of it and become even stronger that most of us pentecostals...so don't judge them..

johnw74:
Christians don't need to ask the Lord through the intercession of the Virgin Mary
We talk directly to the Lord.

please do not derail the thread! The thread is on faith, if you want to discuss intercession and communion of saints, open another thread.

Anas09:
Idol worshippers. Babylon the great.

how does this concern the post?

Ubenedictus:
please do not derail the thread! The thread is on faith, if you want to discuss intercession and communion of saints, open another thread.

Is replying to the OP derailing?

Ubenedictus:
....Pope Francis said, “We ask the Lord, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary,....

To many sabi sabi in the house.. Smh @ Nigerian protestants.. Must you people always find fault in other people's beliefs? If you think it is only you and your church members that will be in heaven then you're mistaking. God did not create the world for you and people of your faith alone. He created the world for you, catholics, muslims, atheist, buddist, hindu, etc and he said we are ALL his children.. Allow other people worship God the way the know, do not Judge! The old man gave a very beautiful sermon that all christians can benefit from and just because he mentioned "Mary" somewhere, some people be came uncomfortable.. Smh.. Why don't you pick what is of benefit to you from the sermon and leave the rest?

kokoA:
To many sabi sabi in the house.. Smh @ Nigerian protestants.. Must you people always find fault in other people's beliefs? If you think it is only you and your church members that will be in heaven then you're mistaking. God did not create the world for you and people of your faith alone. He created the world for you, catholics, muslims, atheist, buddist, hindu, etc and he said we are ALL his children.. Allow other people worship God the way the know, do not Judge! The old man gave a very beautiful sermon that all christians can benefit from and just because he mentioned "Mary" somewhere, some people be came uncomfortable.. Smh.. Why don't you pick what is of benefit to you from the sermon and leave the rest?

thank you, there is a sermon of over 10 paragraph discussed there and the topic is faith, yet some people prefer to discuss the concluding prayer.

Anas09:
Idol worshippers. Babylon the great.

what concerns babylon and "faith is to touch Jesus"?

Anas09:
Idol worshippers. Babylon the great.

(Ex 23:1)- You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

(Prov 19:9)- A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.

(1Pet 2:1-2) - So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation... to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

kokoA:
To many sabi sabi in the house.. Smh @ Nigerian protestants.. Must you people always find fault in other people's beliefs? If you think it is only you and your church members that will be in heaven then you're mistaking. God did not create the world for you and people of your faith alone. He created the world for you, catholics, muslims, atheist, buddist, hindu, etc and he said we are ALL his children.. Allow other people worship God the way the know, do not Judge! The old man gave a very beautiful sermon that all christians can benefit from and just because he mentioned "Mary" somewhere, some people be came uncomfortable.. Smh.. Why don't you pick what is of benefit to you from the sermon and leave the rest?

Pay no attention to them and ask no more, it was predicted long ago... "So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus". Rev 12:17

Syncan:
Pay no attention to them and ask no more, it was predicted long ago... "So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus". Rev 12:17

The woman is Christianity, not the rcc,
when satan failed to destroy the early Church,
he then used the newly formed papacy to persecute true Christianity.

Look it up.

Syncan:
(Ex 23:1)- You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

(Prov 19:9)- A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.

(1Pet 2:1-2) - So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation... to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

The vatican - papacy is babylon the great as Anas09 said

The woman of rev 12 is Christianity, this woman off rev 17 though is the rcc

Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

cardinals and bishops are arrayed in purple and scarlet colour

priests have golden cups full of bread wafers and wine which they claim is turned into the body and blood of Christ

the rcc murdered followers of Jesus.

Look it up.

johnw74:
The woman is Christianity, not the rcc,
when satan failed to destroy the early Church,
he then used the newly formed papacy to persecute true Christianity.

Look it up.

hahahaha
conspiracy theories!

So the catholic church was persecutin "Christianity". What Christianity are you talkin about? Are u unaware that protestanism started in d 16th cent?