Pope celebrates 800th anniversary of founding of
Dominicans
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday celebrated Mass at
the Cathedral Archbasilica of St John Lateran for the conclusion of the Jubilee
for the 800th anniversary of the papal confirmation of the Order of Preachers –
the Dominicans.
In his homily, the Holy Father contrasted two opposed “human
scenarios”: a “‘carnival’ of worldly curiosity, on the one hand; and on the
other, the “glorification of the Father through good works.”
Saint Paul, in the Letter to Timothy, warns against the
worldly curiosity that sees men and women, with “itching ears,” always seeking
after new teachers, “fables,” strange doctrines, ideologies. The very human
tendency to seek novelties, the Pope said, “finds the ideal environment in the
society of appearances, of consumption… Even the truth is “made-up”, covered
with cosmetics to appear novel and attractive.
Against this worldly “carnival” atmosphere stands the
opposite scenario, found in the words of the Jesus in the Gospel: “that they
may glorify your heavenly Father.” The passage from a pseudo-festive
superficiality to glorification comes about “through the good works of those
who, having become disciples of Christ, are become “salt” and “light.”
This, the Pope said, “is the response of Jesus and of the
Church, this is the solid support in the midst of a ‘fluid’ environment: good
works, which we are able to accomplish thanks to Christ and His Holy Spirit,
and which cause to rise up in the heart thanksgiving to the Father, and praise.
Today, Pope Francis said, concluding his homily, “we give
thanks to the Father for the work that Saint Dominic, full of the light and the
salt of Christ, accomplished 800 years ago; a work at the service of the
Gospel, preached with words and with his life; a work that, with the grace of
the Holy Spirit, has helped so many men and women to not lose themselves in the
midst of the ‘carnival’ of worldly curiosity, but rather sense the taste of
sound doctrine, the taste of the Gospel; who, in their turn, have become light
and salt, doers of good works… and true brothers and sisters who glorify God,
and teach others to glorify God, by the good works of their lives.
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