El papa Francisco denuncia que entre los cristianos hay muchos "arribistas"

(EFE) – 22/04/2013 

Ciudad del Vaticano, 22 abr (EFE).- El papa Francisco denunció hoy que en la comunidad cristiana hay muchos "arribistas", gentes que no tienen fe, "ladrones y bandidos que usan la religión como un negocio", y advirtió que para entrar en el Reino de Dios "la única puerta es Jesús".
El pontífice hizo estas manifestaciones en la misa que celebró en la capilla de la residencia de Santa Marta, donde se aloja, en cuya homilía afirmó que "la única puerta para entrar en el Reino de Dios, para entrar en la Iglesia" es Jesús y que quien no entra por esa puerta "es un ladrón o un bandido, es uno que quiere sacar provecho en beneficio propio, uno que quiere trepar".
"También en la comunidad cristiana hay arribistas. Fingen que forman parte pero son ladrones o bandidos, ya que roban la gloria a Jesús, buscan su propia gloria. Para ellos, como los fariseos, la religión es un negocio", afirmó.
Francisco aseguró que esa no es la puerta auténtica para entrar en el Reino de los Cielos, que la puerta es Jesús y que los que de verdad quieren entrar deben ser "humildes, pobres, justos, mansos, es decir, seguir las bienaventuranzas".
El Obispo de Roma agregó que Jesús no es sólo la puerta, "es el camino, la vía".
"Hay muchos caminos, tal vez más ventajosos, para llegar, pero son engañosos, no son verdaderos, son falsos. El único camino es Jesús", subrayó el papa, en la línea marcada por el documento del año 2000 "Dominus Iesus", encargado por el papa Juan Pablo II al entonces cardenal Joseph Ratzinger, luego Benedicto XVI, que presenta a Cristo como único Salvador del mundo.
"Pero algunos dirán, ¡Padre, usted es integrista! No, sencillamente esto lo ha dicho Jesús: 'yo soy la puerta, yo soy el camino que da la vida'. Sólo eso", afirmó Francisco, quien insistió en que Jesús dice siempre la verdad, con ternura y amor.
El papa Bergoglio denunció que muchas veces los hombres tienen la tentación de ser "demasiado dueños de ellos mismos y no de ser humildes hijos y siervos del Señor", y que intentan entrar "por otras puertas u otras ventanas".
"No buscad otras puertas que parecen más fáciles, confortables, a la mano. Llamad siempre a la de Jesús. Él jamás desilusiona, jamás engaña. Jesús no es un ladrón, no es un bandolero. Ha dado su vida por nosotros y cada uno de nosotros debemos pedirle por favor que nos abra, que nos deje entrar", manifestó.
Desde que fue elegido papa, el argentino Jorge Mario Bergoglio oficia todos días misa en la capilla de la residencia de Santa Marta, a la que asisten, entre otros, cardenales, obispos, miembros de la Curia Romana, funcionarios del Governatorato (ente que gobierna el Estado de la Ciudad del Vaticano) e invitados.
A la misa de hoy asistieron empleados de la Sala de Prensa, encabezados por el director, el jesuita Federico Lombardi, y el subdirector, Ciro Benedettini, y técnicos de Radio Vaticano del centro de Santa María di Galeria, en las afueras de Roma.

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You are all now in a highly accelerated state of releasing

By John Smallman

When humanity awakens as one into its divine and fully-conscious state, there will be great rejoicing throughout creation. Its awakening has been planned since the moment apparent separation occurred eons ago, and the moment for that plan to reach completion is at hand. All can awaken, and only a very small number of humans will choose not to, as the benefits of awakening are infinite and inestimable. As you open more and more fully to the divine Love field that supports you always, you will begin to appreciate how this must be so, because when you engage with Love, operate in Love, and share Love it becomes readily apparent that living in joy is the only possibility because It dissolves all unloving attitudes and behaviors.

That is what you are doing at present – releasing all that would interfere with Love. Because you have spent so many lifetimes in the illusion you have accumulated an enormous amount of negativity, resentment, and intolerance which you have become accustomed to directing at others, and needless to say, those others have redirected it back towards you. You have built a continuous feedback loop of unlovingness which feeds on itself and causes suffering for all, and that is what you are all in the process of undoing. Some are further along the path of undoing than others and need to help them to catch up so that all will arrive together at the grand moment of awakening into the glory of God’s brilliant and eternal day.

Throwing off all traces of unlovingness is the way forwards, and you have abundant assistance from the spiritual realms to ensure that you succeed in completing this task in a timely manner. However, you do need, each and every one of you, to become increasingly aware of your moods and emotional states so that you can maintain loving attitudes and behaviors at all times – by choosing to do so, regardless of any disturbing emotions or moods you are experiencing. With practice you will find that your moods and emotions do not control you and that you can operate lovingly in any situation, and as this realization grows the seeming need to respond according to those moods and emotions will weaken and fall away.

Many of you have restrained yourselves – often with difficulty – from behaving unlovingly to a loved one when you were in a bad mood, realizing that it would be most inappropriate. And later, when the mood had dissipated, you were very relieved that you did so. Now you need to practice doing this in every situation where you are tempted to attack another or defend yourselves, until it becomes your normal response. When that happens, instead of sensing an attack on yourself you will see only the pain in the other, to which you can respond lovingly, and love and compassion will flow from you easily and effectively to resolve or bypass the issues that seem to be causing the problem.

You are all on the path to eternal Love because that is your natural state. Deep within yourselves you know this, and this knowledge drives the misguided search within the illusion, in which so many of you engage, to find someone who will love you as you so desperately desire to be loved. But of course you are and always have been infinitely divinely loved, that can never change. By entering the illusion you chose to separate yourselves from the experience of that eternal Love, and feeling lost and alone without it you sought it in others. But those others also feel alone and inadequately loved. The result is that you go into relationships displaying a mask that you hope will appeal to the other, and the other does likewise.

Often, instead of offering love, of which the supply available to you is infinitely abundant, you demand it, making the other feel used and abused. Of course many of you do manage to work through these issues, become loving, and establish stable relationships. Nevertheless, because these are relationships formed within the illusion they are in a sense illusory, and can therefore never provide what you are seeking: the unconditional Love in which God embraces you all eternally. You tend to become co-dependent, so that when separation occurs, due to physical death or divorce, in the ensuing loneliness you once again experience that intense need for love.

It resides within you, hidden under the heaps of resentment and grudges that have built up over lifetimes in the illusion and which you are all now in a highly accelerated state of uncovering and releasing. You are Love because it is from That that you were created, and the Flame of that Love continues to burn eternally within each one of you, waiting for you to remove the debris under which It is hidden so that It can blaze forth as divinely intended. The piles of debris are rapidly dwindling as you all become more loving and the divine Flame within each of you will not be contained for very much longer. Then your seeking will be over.

Your loving brother, Jesus.

Jesus: And Then All Will Begin Awakening

John Smallman, February 5, 2012

http://www.johnsmallman2.wordpress.com

Here in the spiritual realms we are very busy making the final preparations to greet you as you awaken with ecstatic amazement and realize that at last you are Home.

You have been on a very long and tiring journey, and at times it seemed to you that you had entirely lost your way. You had not, and could not, because you are never left alone, abandoned, and without the necessary guidance to help you return to your homeward path.

Nevertheless, it did seem that you had, and this caused you much fear and anxiety. When you engage in fear and anxiety it is extremely difficult for you to listen to and hear the guidance that is forever with you.

Your fears and anxieties are now dissolving as you turn to loving behaviors and attitudes to address the issues and problems that your earthly environment seems to present to you in abundance.

Love and fear cannot coexist: the latter attempts to block your awareness of the former and encourages you to behave defensively to combat the attacks that it would have you believe are likely to occur at any moment. But finally you have seen through this charade and are discovering the power of love as you engage with it and let go of the fear that has bound you to the illusion.

As you continue to untie the bonds with which you attached yourselves to the illusion, by embracing love and letting go of fear, you will find yourselves feeling ever more upbeat and optimistic about life and all that it offers you.

This is because as you loosen those bonds, you are finding yourselves far freer to engage lovingly and trustingly with others who respond in like fashion, sharing and extending the divine energy with which you have all been imbued since the moment of your creation.

Until very recently you either held this energy very close to yourselves, sharing it sparingly with only a few friends or family, or were even unaware that you possessed it, whereas now you are indeed opening up to start extending and sharing it indiscriminately with everyone, as does your heavenly Father.

The overall effect of this enormous increase in loving behavior all across the world is to accelerate the rate at which people everywhere are moving towards wakefulness. And of course this energy, which you are now so willingly extending and sharing, strengthens and intensifies as you use it, and discovers and uncovers itself in the most seemingly unexpected places.

Soon there will be nowhere on the planet where its effects remain unfelt – and then all will begin awakening. Many of you are definitely feeling the effects of these great changes as you go about your daily lives, and more and more frequently experience kindness and thoughtfulness offered to you by others, often in situations where previously you would have expected irritation, impatience, or even confrontation.

All the loving thoughts, words, and deeds that you offer one another meld together to form a great wave of Love that combines with the One with which God has surrounded the planet, uplifting those who remain confused and fearful and encouraging them to reach out for support and find it.

There is no one on Earth today who is not feeling the energy changes that your loving attitudes are bringing about as they replace the ones of mistrust and fear that have been prevalent for so long. What you are each achieving individually is truly amazing, and because all your efforts are then joined together the effects of that great wave of Love are irresistible. It will continue to grow, enveloping all in Its warm embrace until no one remains who feels alone, unacceptable, or unworthy of your Father’s eternal Love for you.

The only path now open is the one forwards, and as you all follow it the illusion will dissolve and disintegrate behind you. There truly is no going back because there is nowhere to which anyone could or would want to return.

As the moment of your awakening approaches, continue to engage with and embrace the divine Love field encircling Planet Earth, and intend to make It permanently part of yourselves and share It with all with whom you interact in any way at all.

By so doing you strengthen the awakening process which you are undergoing and remind yourselves that in truth you are already one with the divine Love field, and always have been – you just forgot that temporarily. Be ready for divine wonders to reveal themselves to you!

Your loving brother, Jesus.