{"id":848,"date":"2020-01-28T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T13:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=848"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T11:20:25","slug":"church-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Church crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope Francis\u00a0<\/strong>sees the root cause in the clericalism.\u00a0Pope Benedict\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>thinks that the crisis hit the church\u00a0 at the time when after the Second Vatican Council, when a large part of priests and theologians have confused the word aggiornamento opening up to the world take likeness\u00a0 the world. However,, Georg Weigl points out, that even Benedict’s explanation does\u00a0 not explain everything. So, where is\u00a0 the cause? We can’t answer\u00a0 with the sentence. The Church is a community of\u00a0 Christians. A Christian is a\u00a0 person, who has been filled with the Spirit\u00a0 of God and\u00a0 as\u00a0 a result his life has reached a\u00a0 whole new level. Christian is the man who\u00a0 fully enjoys new\u00a0 life and even external\u00a0 obstacles\u00a0 cannot take it\u00a0 away\u00a0 from\u00a0 the\u00a0 joy of\u00a0 the\u00a0 new\u00a0 life. Romans 8 , 35-37. The pagans watch in amazement at the\u00a0 lives of early Christians and longed live\u00a0 to like them. Compare Acts\u00a0 5,12-14.Can we say \u00a0 that\u00a0 today the life\u00a0 of Christians is fundamentally\u00a0 different from that of\u00a0 no- Christians? The new life\u00a0 of Christians begins\u00a0 with\u00a0 his\u00a0 conversion, that is\u00a0 by changing his\u00a0 mind by\u00a0 complete transforming\u00a0 his personality that\u00a0 turns his view of God into the world \u00a0 into life.In short everything. Religion is then an instrument of\u00a0 growth in this new\u00a0 spiritual\u00a0 life. It has no value in itself, as St. Paul explains.\/ Galatians\u00a0 6,15\/. Somewhere deep in\u00a0 the past, the\u00a0 church\u00a0 has\u00a0 been\u00a0 internally divided. The priest and the religious became spirituel, and they are\u00a0 called to\u00a0 spiritual life, and\u00a0 others- laity to spirituel life have neither the ability the means nor the time. Christianity is\u00a0 no\u00a0 more about turning a new life into receiving the\u00a0 Holy\u00a0 Spirit. But if\u00a0 the layman and increasingly the\u00a0 priest and\u00a0 religious are\u00a0 longer expected to be\u00a0 converted\u00a0 what in\u00a0 the\u00a0 identity of the\u00a0 Christian. Spirituality\u00a0 was\u00a0 replaced\u00a0 by\u00a0 religion Christianity was\u00a0 replaced by\u00a0 religion. From now on a Christian\u00a0 is\u00a0 a person who performs religious acts. Living spiritually means\u00a0 engaging in religious activities. The church was then transformed into an\u00a0 Institution. The Church has Always been an Institution. But this was\u00a0 just the\u00a0 skeleton on which\u00a0 the spirituel was fixed. But now\u00a0 institutionally has become is foundation. It has become like a ,,machine” that processes lay\u00a0 people into good\u00a0 Catholics. Baptism after birth, first holy\u00a0 communion at\u00a0 the\u00a0 age of\u00a0 eight, confirmation at\u00a0 14 years, churchly married, churchly\u00a0 buried. Everything is OK. Everything\u00a0 is\u00a0 fulfilled. Today there are many people who were received in the\u00a0 holy communion. On confirmation, but\u00a0 they don’t have\u00a0 God’s\u00a0 life\u00a0 in them. Have not turned. Many baptized and\u00a0 confirmed\u00a0 live\u00a0 outside the Church. However,\u00a0 statistics only\u00a0 show\u00a0 the\u00a0 number.\u00a0 And then, in a parish\u00a0 that has\u00a0 6,000 baptized Catholics, About\u00a0 100 People, mostly\u00a0 advanced\u00a0 ages, come\u00a0 to\u00a0 church on Sunday. Whereas\u00a0 these\u00a0 so-called Christians do not\u00a0 attend\u00a0 church, do not\u00a0 meet, of Course they\u00a0 do not form\u00a0 a\u00a0 community. And\u00a0 the church\u00a0 is\u00a0 a community\u00a0 of\u00a0 believers. If the\u00a0 believers do not\u00a0 meet, there will\u00a0 be\u00a0 no church. This is evidenced\u00a0 by several extinct parishes\u00a0 in the\u00a0 Netherlands, Germany. Which parishes seem but only because they have turned\u00a0 into leisure Centers. Parishes organize Various mini Football tournaments tours, meets, lecture, worship. Much of it is good and excellent, though. Activity however there is\u00a0 no life the church is not an organization that organizes activities. If\u00a0 we replace the parish life with them, we resemble the\u00a0 legendary Potemkin. We\u00a0 construct\u00a0 the\u00a0 attractive and quasi Living facade, but\u00a0 there is only a big void\u00a0 behind it. Spiritual life cannot be\u00a0 replaced by t heather or sport. As I said, we do not lead people to\u00a0 spiritual life to conversion. All we do is Focus on form. Young\u00a0 people need special catechism, depicted by special\u00a0 characters. In the church they need audible guitar and drums. We are looking for\u00a0 new ways of new forms. Format prevails over content\u00a0 and\u00a0 result. It does not work. Anywhere else to have\u00a0 had a church in a large\u00a0 Institution of Events if literature, magazines, on\u00a0 television\u00a0 all, and result. Decline and fall. Why? Because ours problem is not in cover but in content. The form will not help if the content is missing and the gospel. The parishes\u00a0 just don’t work. They are no longer the place of God’s Family. The parish is no longer\u00a0 a place where it leads to the\u00a0 holiness\u00a0 and\u00a0 the divine of live. We are not\u00a0 able to show People the way to\u00a0 Christ and\u00a0 go on this journey with them. The parish is no\u00a0 longer a place\u00a0 where we with others walk towards holiness. If the parish is an assembly of formal unconverted not very religious people. These people will not conform to the priest and his preaching. Just as teenager ignores his parents and adapts to his peers, so the parishioner does not conform to the priest and sermons, but to the other parishioners and becomes as normal\u00a0 a Catholic as everyone else. Recovery\u00a0 is not possible through\u00a0 mass preaching, but only through relationships and\u00a0 personal guidance in small communities. But since with small communities we are as we are. The\u00a0 result is what\u00a0 it is. The\u00a0 second\u00a0 problem is that we are replacing God’s life by\u00a0 keeping the\u00a0 commandments and norms. Thus, conversion\u00a0 understood not as a change of thought, but we’re confusing it with\u00a0 reform. We moralize\u00a0 we urge\u00a0 people to her\u00a0 better and\u00a0 star to\u00a0 live\u00a0 according\u00a0 to the\u00a0 commandments. But that is impossible. That’s wanting a beggar\u00a0 to behave like a millionaire. A beggar must first become a millionaire and\u00a0 then without a problem\u00a0 he will live as a millionaire. The Gospel is the lifestyle of God’s sons\u00a0 and daughters.For them,m this is natural.light and self-evident, but for the\u00a0 \u00a0unconverted man this lifestyle is alien, crazy unreasonable and to live virtually impossible according to him. This stone\u00a0 is of great value\u00a0 for\u00a0 you\u00a0 that\u00a0 believe but for those who not\u00a0 believe. The stone, which the builders\u00a0 rejected as\u00a0 worthless turned\u00a0 out to be\u00a0 the\u00a0 most important\u00a0 of\u00a0 all. And another scripture\u00a0 says. This is\u00a0 the\u00a0 stone\u00a0 that will make them fall. He stumbled\u00a0 \u00a0because they did\u00a0 not\u00a0 believe in the\u00a0 word, such was God’s will\u00a0 for them. 1Peter 2,7-8. Seeing the crisis in the\u00a0 church we\u00a0 priest alienate them\u00a0 from God. We don’t\u00a0 trust\u00a0 God’s power. As we could . We haven’t\u00a0 seen her. So, we don’t rely on it\u00a0 either. We rely on our forces. We must ask if a conviction in the church the result of our laziness. The\u00a0 crisis in the\u00a0 church stops when Christian start\u00a0 \u00a0to live\u00a0 \u00a0according\u00a0 the\u00a0 gospel.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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