{"id":3877,"date":"2017-02-18T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T16:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/padrimariani.org\/en\/2018\/03\/16\/antonio-dos-reis-fernandes-mic-passed-awayheartbreak-leads-to-heavenly-calling-copy-copy-216\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T21:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T20:21:53","slug":"want-to-reach-humanity-be-open-to-gods-grace-pope-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/padrimariani.org\/en\/2017\/02\/18\/want-to-reach-humanity-be-open-to-gods-grace-pope-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to reach humanity? Be open to God&#8217;s grace, Pope says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-padding-right:20%;--awb-padding-bottom:40px;--awb-padding-left:20%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.5 ) );margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>Vatican City\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.5 ) );\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p style=\"text-align: right;\">Feb 18, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;--awb-margin-top-small:0px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:20px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Want to reach humanity? Be open to God&#8217;s grace, Pope says<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:0%;--awb-padding-right:20%;--awb-padding-bottom:0%;--awb-padding-left:20%;--awb-background-color:#2b2b2b;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:5%;--awb-padding-right:20%;--awb-padding-bottom:5%;--awb-padding-left:20%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p>Vatican City, Feb 18, 2017 (CNA\/EWTN News) \u2014 The Christian mission today means facing new challenges with simplicity, holiness, and openness to God, Pope Francis told an audience with the Marian Fathers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many still await knowledge of Jesus, the sole Redeemer of man, and many situations of injustice and moral and material hardship challenge believers,&#8221; the Pope said Feb. 18. &#8220;Such an urgent mission requires conversion at personal and community levels. Only hearts that are fully open to the action of grace are able to interpret the signs of the times and to hear the calls of humanity in need of hope and peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m4df5e7IPcc?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p>The Pope told the Marian Fathers that their apostolate is a &#8220;vast field&#8221; constituted by &#8220;the urgent need&#8221; to bear witness to the gospel before everyone without distinctions.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope received members of the Congregation of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception on Saturday morning in the Vatican&#8217;s Consistory Hall. The congregation, present in 20\u00a0countries, is holding its general chapter in Rome from Feb.\u00a0 5-25.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope encouraged their reflections to be done in fidelity with their founder&#8217;s charism and their spiritual heritage while also having &#8220;a heart and mind open to the new needs of the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is true, we must go ahead towards the new needs, the new challenges, but remember: we cannot go ahead without memory,&#8221; Pope Francis said. &#8220;It is a continual tension. If I want to go ahead without memory of the past, of the history of the founders, the great figures and also the sins of the congregation, I cannot do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Marian Fathers was founded by St. Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary in Poland in 1670.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.padrimariani.org\/en\/resources\/article.php?NID=6803\">He was canonized in\u00a02016.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis told the congregation&#8217;s members that their service to God&#8217;s word is &#8220;witness to the Risen Christ, whom you have met on your journey and whom, with your style of life, you are called to take wherever the Church sends you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christian witness also requires commitment to and with the poor, a commitment that has characterized your Institute since the beginning,&#8221; the Pope continued. &#8220;I encourage you to keep alive this tradition of service to the poor and humble, through the proclamation of the Gospel with language understandable to them, with works of mercy and prayer for the souls of the departed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pope stressed the importance of simplicity as a spiritual foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not princes, sons of princes or counts or barons: we are simple people, of the people. And for this reason we draw close with this simplicity to the simple people and those who suffer the most: the sick, children, the abandoned elderly, the poor &#8230; all of them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And this poverty is at the heart of the Gospel: it is the poverty of Jesus, not sociological poverty, but that of Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis invoked the example of Blessed George Matulaitis, a member of the congregation who became Bishop of Vilnius in Lithuania. He was beatified in\u00a01987.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope praised his writings for showing &#8220;the total dedication to the Church and to man.&#8221; He praised the congregation&#8217;s initiatives to spread its charism to poor countries, especially those in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The great challenge of enculturation requires that today you proclaim the Good News using languages and methods comprehensible to the men of our time, involved in processes of rapid social and cultural change,&#8221; the Pope said.<\/p>\n<p>The pontiff asked the Marian Fathers to show courage in their service to Jesus Christ and the Church. He said that God can draw great things out of smallness and unworthiness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our smallness is in fact the seed, that then germinates, grows; the Lord waters it, and in this way it goes ahead,&#8221; the Pope said. &#8220;But the sense of smallness is that first impulse towards trust in the power of God. Go, go ahead on this road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis prayed for the congregation&#8217;s journey of faith and growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/en\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2017\/02\/18\/170218a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the official report on the meeting from the Vatican Press office.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:0%;--awb-padding-right:20%;--awb-padding-bottom:5%;--awb-padding-left:20%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 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rel=\"author\">Paris<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2026-07-24T14:23:43+02:00<\/span><span>July 7, 2026<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/p><div class=\"fusion-content-sep sep-none\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p> On July 16, 2026, on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, three more of our Vietnamese confreres [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-12080\" class=\"fusion-post-grid post-12080 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-35 category-frontpage category-news\">\n<div class=\"fusion-post-wrapper\" style=\"background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);border:1px solid #ebeaea;border-bottom-width:3px;\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-flexslider flexslider fusion-flexslider-loading fusion-post-slideshow\" style=\"border-color:#ebeaea;\">\n\t\t<ul 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Andrzej Szostek, MIC, passed away<\/a><\/h2><p class=\"fusion-single-line-meta\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/padrimariani.org\/en\/author\/pfinley\/\" rel=\"author\">Paris<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2026-07-23T16:26:34+02:00<\/span><span>July 7, 2026<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><\/p><div class=\"fusion-content-sep sep-none\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><p> On the afternoon of July 21, 2026, Fr. Prof. Dr. hab. 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