So, I am stuck on this theme…it keeps coming to me in prayer…the grace of shame. I think it is worth noting that while the Holy Father is speaking of this grace, pro abortion groups, like NARAL are trying to desolve the shame of abortion through initiatives like "1 in 3".
Their entire focus is to take away abortions stigma(shame)…they blame "shame" on everything but the abortion itself. Pope Francis on the other hand, speaks of the "Grace of Shame" that brings us to the truth when we do something wrong and shows us how much we need God. Such opposites…
Thank you Lord for the grace of shame!
Check out this article from St Ignatius spirituality! :
http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/17100/the-grace-of-shame/
As we approach all saints day let us pray to him for this amazing grace!
He
talked to them about the shame Jesuits feel before the crucified
Christ: “we look at the wisdom of Christ and at our ignorance; at His
omnipotence and our weakness; at His justice and our iniquity; at His
goodness and our wickedness.” Francis said that Jesuits should ask for
the grace of shame. This is language taken from the First Week of the
Spiritual Exercises, where we experience the myriad ways we resist and
ignore the love of God.
The point of it is humility: “Humility that makes us understand, each
day, that it is not for us to build the Kingdom of God, but it is
always the grace of God working within us; humility that pushes us to
put our whole being not at the service of ourselves and our own ideas,
but at the service of Christ and of the Church.”
– See more at: http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/17100/the-grace-of-shame/#sthash.RBLz6guI.dpuf
He
talked to them about the shame Jesuits feel before the crucified
Christ: “we look at the wisdom of Christ and at our ignorance; at His
omnipotence and our weakness; at His justice and our iniquity; at His
goodness and our wickedness.” Francis said that Jesuits should ask for
the grace of shame. This is language taken from the First Week of the
Spiritual Exercises, where we experience the myriad ways we resist and
ignore the love of God.
The point of it is humility: “Humility that makes us understand, each
day, that it is not for us to build the Kingdom of God, but it is
always the grace of God working within us; humility that pushes us to
put our whole being not at the service of ourselves and our own ideas,
but at the service of Christ and of the Church.”
– See more at: http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/17100/the-grace-of-shame/#sthash.RBLz6guI.dpuf
He
talked to them about the shame Jesuits feel before the crucified
Christ: “we look at the wisdom of Christ and at our ignorance; at His
omnipotence and our weakness; at His justice and our iniquity; at His
goodness and our wickedness.” Francis said that Jesuits should ask for
the grace of shame. This is language taken from the First Week of the
Spiritual Exercises, where we experience the myriad ways we resist and
ignore the love of God.
The point of it is humility: “Humility that makes us understand, each
day, that it is not for us to build the Kingdom of God, but it is
always the grace of God working within us; humility that pushes us to
put our whole being not at the service of ourselves and our own ideas,
but at the service of Christ and of the Church.”
– See more at: http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/17100/the-grace-of-shame/#sthash.RBLz6guI.dpuf
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