Habemus Papam - We Have a Pope

I haven't posted through all this going on with the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. We of course pray very much for him and are ever so grateful for the awesome job he did. The most important job in the whole world. We were all sad to see him retire but most certainly understood his need to.

Through all the days of our church being without a pope, we prayed and trusted our Lord to bring us who we needed.

Praise our Lord He did. Pope Francis. 

We can all be very grateful to our Lord for sending us such a humble man. .

I thought I would post a few quotes from our new Pope:

Give no place, he said, to pessimism, which the devil offers us every day

if we are not praying to the Lord, we are praying to the devil.

“Courage, dear brothers!” Francis told them. (cardinals) “Probably half of us are in our old age. Old age, they say, is the seat of wisdom. The old ones have the wisdom that they have earned from walking through life, like old Simeon and Anna at the Temple, whose wisdom allowed them to recognize Jesus. Let us give wisdom to the youth: Like good wine that improves with age, let us give the youth the wisdom of our lives.”

“We can build so many things, but if we don’t confess Jesus Christ, then something is wrong. We will become a pitiful NGO [non-governmental organization], but not the Church, spouse of Christ,” Pope Francis said

“I would like all of us, after these days of grace, to have the courage, precisely the courage, to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the cross of the Lord, to edify the Church in the blood of the Lord poured out on the cross and to confess the only glory, that of Christ crucified. And, in this way, the Church will move forward,” he said as he finished his homily.