Saint Pius X -Pope

It is common knowledge that today’s era needs more personalities. Yes, we have those who pretend to be the nation’s leaders and spread a lot of talk around them, but the government does not accept them. A person’s loyalty to ideas, character, principledness, and detachment from pride makes a person a personality. We can achieve all this at the appropriate level. And it is also necessary to think about this fact when reading the words from today’s Gospel.

Peter says to Christ: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Mt 16:16).

After the announcement of the angels on the fields of Bethlehem, where the world learns about the arrival of the Messiah on earth, Jesus lives in the silence of Nazareth for thirty years. Only once, when he is twelve years old, he reminds Mary and Joseph: “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I am supposed to be where my Father is concerned?” (Lk 2:49). For thirty years, God has been quietly preparing to address the world. John the Baptist testifies about him: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world ” (John 1:29). And at the baptism in the Jordan River, God the Father himself says: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Mt 3:17).
Jesus gains people’s respect through his behavior, miracles, and signs. Nicodemus, who comes to Jesus at night because he is a Pharisee, but a man faithful to God, says to Jesus: “Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one can do such signs as you do unless he is with him God” (Jn 3:2). Gradually, even Peter recognizes the awaited Messiah in Christ. However, when Jesus asks: “Who do they think I am,” Peter answers, and the Holy Spirit speaks through his mouth. Jesus himself confirms this when he says to Peter in response: “Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven” (Mt 16:17). God the Father takes care of acceptance of his Son among men as God. However, the Son fulfills the will of his Father. He says it himself: “I can do nothing of myself. I judge as I hear. And my judgment is just because I do not seek my own will,

Anyone who wants to make a difference today must avoid the self-deception of pride. Pride is the beginning of every fall. Pride will never allow the one who succumbs to it to mean anything. If so, only for a while, and then the fall will be all the more painful, the higher the goal a person has reached. Let us remember the fall of the proud angels. Christ’s wish is that we confess his divinity here on earth, recognize him as our God and Lord with our lives, and he will take care of our growth and our position where he wants us. God wants each of us to have a personality. He wishes that parents not only demand from their children that they respect and love them but also that they faithfully prove all this that Jesus preaches with their lives. Likewise, with our life in all positions, we behave in such a way that we are believers of God the Creator, Redeemer, and Savior. Who does not point to his person,

We can learn this from Guiseppe Melchiorre Sarto, native of Riese, chaplain of Tombolo, priest of Salano, bishop of Mantua, cardinal of Venice, and pope of Rome. as a pope; we know him under the name Pius X. He did not excel in learning, although he was bright and educated. He did not excel in wealth because he still had debts but for others. He was not born, he was the son of a postman, and he became the Pope. He did not stand out for temporary values but for his love for people, humble and straightforward behavior, consideration, benevolence, and all this to show those around him not about his person but so that the world would know and love Christ even more. The Church gave him the title of saint. As Pope, he had the title of saint, but only as a title of ecclesiastical authority. However, he was always what God wanted him to be in his time. He was a priest, passed through all church ranks, and was always a representative.

The Church before him gave the title to the last pope after his death and elevated to the altar the pope of the same name, Pius V. However, he died in 1572. For almost 350 years, the Church did not give any pope the title of saint after death. In 1,100 years, the Church has given this title to only five popes. Why? Were not others of the holy life? We believe that they can all be in heaven, in a state of eternal bliss. However, with his life, Pius X was able to be a personality, to be what he should have been, the way he should have been, not only at the lowest position of the church hierarchy but also at its head.
One, let’s say, little thing from his life testifies to his personality.

When the secretary informed him as the bishop that two people were waiting to be received, the nobleman Cavariani and a confident woman, the bishop said to the secretary: – Let the woman come first. She certainly has children and needs to hurry to them. – When a parish priest complained to him about his parishioners, he said: – Dear brother, don’t you know that you are now blaming yourself? Go back among them and be a good pastor. – Then he took out his well-known snuffbox and offered his brother the words: – Just courage. God will help you. You must remember that only love can achieve love. – The Pope chose as his motto: Renew everything in Christ. He fulfilled his password. It happened that there were more miracles at the audiences. The healing of the blind and lame is mentioned, and many people cry: – Holy, holy! – after that, the Pope corrected them with a smile that they had got his name wrong. – My name is not Il Santo, but Sarto. – And yet he is a saint. It does not matter,

And who do we think Jesus is? Let not only our mouth speak, but what does our life say? We all know each other. And right here today is the time of grace when we want to cooperate with the Holy Spirit, change our lives, and direct our actions, words, and thoughts so that Jesus can give a similar testimony about us as Peter. We must become a person in the eyes of Christ. To be what we are meant to be. When we want to strengthen further the idea of ​​who means something in today’s world, we see many personalities, but they all have one thing in common. They have a tremendous human profile, adhere to proven human principles of coexistence with people, and are imbued with virtues.
Thus we see that spirituality has its place even where it is claimed that faith is not necessary for happiness on earth. Moral qualities and fulfillment of God’s commands make a person a personality both in the eyes of people and God. Today there are many of them in our surroundings. Unknown, they don’t stand out on the outside, and yet people value them, admire them, and give them respect. This is because they enrich their surroundings with their lives. They do not live only for themselves, and they do not live only for this world. And this is an invitation to each of us. Today we should all say to ourselves: I want to prove it, too, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Our time – that’s all of us, including us here. Every person must enrich their surroundings and time. Every believer has the responsibility not only to bring himself to God but also to help others on the path to holiness.