Pope Francis on Monday
during Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta told his
followers that one needs only to follow the path trod by the
Beatitudes to live a religious life.
He warned against listening to fortune-tellers and
delinquents.
"Those who follow Jesus do nor err! 'Oh, Father, yes, but
things are difficult ... So many times I do not see clearly what
to do ... I was told that there was a seer and I went there and
I went there; I went to the [fortune teller], who turned the
cards to me ...' If you do this, you do not follow Jesus. You
follow another, who shows you another way, a different way.
Jesus shows the way forward: there is no other who can show the
way.' Jesus has warned us: 'There will be others who will say
the way of the Messiah is this, this, this [other way]: do not
listen. Do not hear them. I am the way.' Jesus is the door and
also the path: if we follow Him we shall not go astray," he
said.
Pope Francis then said that "you will find the voice of
Jesus in the Beatitudes. Should someone make to teach you a way
contrary to the Beatitudes, [know] that such a one is one who
has entered through the window: it is not Jesus! Second: you
would know the voice of Jesus? You may know it when that voice
speaks of the works of mercy. For example, in chapter 25 of St
Matthew: if someone tells you what Jesus says there, that is the
voice of Jesus. Third: you may know it is the voice of Jesus
when it teaches you to say 'Father', that is, when it teaches
you to pray the Our Father.
The pope had made similar statements both on November 17,
2013, and on November 15, 2015.
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