Pope: Latin American spiritual men, women called to give ‘blissful witness’

ROME — religious guys and women have to enter into the life of the individuals they serve, "with appreciate for their customs, their traditions," and "are trying to carry out the mission of inculturating the faith and evangelizing the tradition," Pope Francis informed spiritual from Latin the usa and the Caribbean.

The pope warned that with out inculturation, both Christian and non secular life would emerge as "in the most aberrant and ridiculous gnostic positions."

"we now have seen this, as an example, in the misuse of the liturgy," he pointed out in an Aug. 13 video. "What turns into crucial is ideology and never the fact of the people, and that's no longer the Gospel. don't forget the pairing: inculturate the religion and evangelize the lifestyle."

The message turned into broadcasted firstly of a 3-day conference sponsored via the Latin American Confederation of non secular, accepted by the Spanish acronym CLAR. The Aug. 13-15 virtual event mirrored on the theme, "towards an intercongregational, intercultural and itinerant religious existence."

pleasure "is the top of the line witness we are able to present to God's holy trustworthy people, whom we are called to serve and accompany on their pilgrimage toward the encounter with the father," the pope instructed them.

The completely satisfied witness of consecrated guys and girls comes in many forms, specifically through a way of humor, the pope added.

"it's so unhappy to peer consecrated men and ladies who have no sense of humor, who take every thing significantly," Pope Francis referred to. "Please; to be with Jesus is to be pleased, it's additionally to have the capacity that holiness offers us to have this feel of humor."

Pope Francis additionally emphasised the importance of consecrated lifestyles as a "promoter of fraternity."

despite the fact, with many congregations dealing with "the temptation of survival" amid dwindling numbers, the pope urged non secular men and girls to "renounce the criterion of numbers, the criterion of efficiency" that can flip them into "anxious disciples, locked in the past and abandoned to nostalgia."

"This nostalgia is definitely the siren tune of non secular lifestyles," he noted.