It would not be right to see this call to growth
exclusively or primarily in terms of doctrinal formation. It has to do with
“observing” all that the Lord has shown us as the way of responding to his
love. Along with the virtues, this means above all the new commandment, the
first and the greatest of the commandments, and the one that best identifies us
as Christ’s disciples: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I
have loved you” (Jn 15:12). Clearly, whenever the New Testament
authors want to present the heart of the Christian moral message, they present
the essential requirement of love for one’s neighbour: “The one who loves his
neighbour has fulfilled the whole law… therefore love of neighbour is
the fulfilling of the law” (Rom 13:8, 10). These are the words of
Saint Paul, for whom the commandment of love not only sums up the law but
constitutes its very heart and purpose: “For the whole law is fulfilled in one
word, ‘you shall love your neighbour as yourself’” (Gal 5:14).
Ambaist! What a perversion to write this. Read John 15, from the first verse to 17. Note how not so subtly Bergoglio perverts it. St. John is quoting Our Lord as saying, "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love." (Verses 9-10) Clearly the idea is to be right with with God, to place God first, as He must be, necessarily so. One cannot "love" (in the high sense, charitas, agapē) without loving God first. Matthew 22:37-39 "Jesus declared, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.’"
Instead, as my friend pointed out, Bergoglio makes a Humanist statement, not a Catholic theological one. As I wrote in answer to his post:
Naturally, Bergi has got it exactly backward. First things first, and God necessarily – by essential definition – comes first; but our Caudillo puts Man first, and of course he puts himself first among men.
What kills me is it is all so banal, so lame, so stupid -- could anyone design anything more likely to turn off people to religion than the Vatican II Church and its Bergoglio? What homosexuality is to procreation, what Modernism is to Aquinas, what the N.O. is to the TLM, that's what the Vat2 Church is to Catholicism.
AnP
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