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I receive a daily email from Pope Francis.
His emails are almost always solid.
Today's was brilliant.
*****
Even so, you'll probably have to set the devil talk aside.
After all he's trying to guide 1.2 billion (40% of them in Latin America) - and 700 million of the faithful have double digit IQ.
As with myth, fairy tale and legend, if you want to make your strongest case with relatively simple minds, you simplify your story telling.
You don't necessarily stick to the literal truth.
Sunday, June 12, 2022
“Bitterness, pessimism, sad thoughts, these never come from the Holy Spirit. They come from evil, which is at home with negativity. It often uses this strategy: it stokes impatience and self-pity, and with self-pity the need to blame others for all our problems. It makes us edgy, suspicious, querulous. Complaining is the language of the evil spirit; he wants to make you complain, to be gloomy, to put on a funeral face. The Holy Spirit on the other hand urges us never to lose heart and always to start over again. He always encourages you to get up. He takes you by the hand and says: “Get up!” How do we do that? By jumping right in, without waiting for someone else. And by spreading hope and joy, not complaints; never envying others. Never! Envy is the door through which the evil spirit enters. The Bible tells us this: by the envy of the devil, evil entered the world. So never be envious! The Holy Spirit brings you goodness; he leads you to rejoice in the success of others.”
Pope Francis
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