Pope Francis' Luncheon W/ Protestant Delegation

[ToJesusMyHeart]

http://youtu.be/eulTwytMWlQ

 

"I am speaking to you as a brother. I speak to you in a simple way. [...] And let's pray to the Lord that He unites us all...we are brothers, let's give each other a spiritual hug and let God complete the work that He has begun. And this is a miracle; the miracle of unity has begun."

 

Two prominent Fort Worth-based Christian ministers led a delegation of Evangelical Christian leaders to Rome to meet privately with Pope Francis.

 

James and Betty Robison, co-hosts of the Life Today television program, and Kenneth Copeland, co-host of Believer’s Voice of Victory, met the Roman Pontiff at the Vatican on Tuesday.  The meeting lasted almost three hours and included a private luncheon with Pope Francis.

 

Mr. Robison told the Fort Worth Star Telegram, “This meeting was a miracle…. This is something God has done. God wants his arms around the world. And he wants Christians to put his arms around the world by working together.”

 

Mr. Robison said he was impressed by Pope Francis’ humility and courtesy to the visiting delegation of Evangelical Protestant Christian leaders.

 

 

http://www.trunews.com/trunews-exclusive-pope-francis-meets-evangelical-delegation/

 

[John Ryan]

Let the trashing of the Holy Father begin?

[Luigi]

I'm always amazed when non-Catholic Christians meet with a pope and come away with the revelation that he is, in fact, quite a strong Christian, with faith in god, and no horns or tail. What did they expect? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheesh!

[ToJesusMyHeart]

Let the trashing of the Holy Father begin?

 

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I would hope not.......?

[AccountDeleted]

I loved Pope Emeritus Benedict but I have to say that I absolutely adore Pope Francis. Go get 'em Holy Father! :)

[Credo in Deum]

I thought the Holy Father's message was great. We should pray for each other and love each other, and If we can only agree right now that we want unity then let us be one voice in at least that much. Let us love each other as Christians because of the love we have for Christ! When I see Protestants, I see people who have done much with less, and they've done much because of their great love for God. My desire to see them in the Church is not one of correction but one of having their love finally be united to the sacraments where Love itself comes and communes with us every day. Converts to the Church are one of the greatest gifts God gives us. The appreciation a convert expresses for their Catholic Faith when they finally discover its beauty is one which reminds us of the appreciation that God is owed by so many ungrateful cradle Catholics.

[Catherine Therese]

Honest to goodness - I just want to hug the man. I just want to embrace him as I would my father or my grandfather.

 

Blessed be God for the gift of all our saintly leaders of recent memory - may He bless the Pope Emeritus and our current Holy Father as they each fulfil the mission you have set them - one through contemplation, one through his service as Vicar of Christ. Through their prayers and service, may we move closer to the fulfilment of Your Son's prayer to You on the night before He died:

 

"I pray not only for them [the apostles] but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me. Father, they are your gift to me." (Jn 17:20-24)

[Perigrina]

Much of what Pope Francis was saying reminded me of Pope John Paul II's encyclical Ut Unum Sint, especially this passage:

 

Thanks to ecumenical dialogue we can speak of a greater maturity in our common prayer for one another. This is possible inasmuch as dialogue also serves as an examination of conscience. In this context, how can we fail to recall the words of the First Letter of John? "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1:8-9). John even goes so far as to state: "If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us" (1:10). Such a radical exhortation to acknowledge our condition as sinners ought also to mark the spirit which we bring to ecumenical dialogue. If such dialogue does not become an examination of conscience, a kind of "dialogue of consciences", can we count on the assurance which the First Letter of John gives us? "My little children, I am writing this to you so that you may not sin; but if any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world" (2:1-2). All the sins of the world were gathered up in the saving sacrifice of Christ, including the sins committed against the Church's unity: the sins of Christians, those of the pastors no less than those of the lay faithful. Even after the many sins which have contributed to our historical divisions, Christian unity is possible, provided that we are humbly conscious of having sinned against unity and are convinced of our need for conversion. Not only personal sins must be forgiven and left behind, but also social sins, which is to say the sinful "structures" themselves which have contributed and can still contribute to division and to the reinforcing of division.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25051995_ut-unum-sint_en.html

[mortify ii]

So how's the weather by you guys?

[Guest]

This is dope. Used to watch the Robisons and Copeland all the time. This made my day. Thanks for posting.

[Selah]

hmmph