My brothers and sisters in the
Christ, here in the United States there are two personalities of the Catholic
Church that I really like to follow both in his sermons and in his writings and
in his statements to the press, one is our beloved Father and Pastor Archbishop
Garcia-Siller, and the other one is Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York. A
few days ago I read something that the second one posted on his blog* and I want to share it with you because his words
are a great lesson: “only Jesus matters, He must be the center of everything” ■ Fr
Agustin, pastor■ «But why didn’t he say anything about his reasons for stepping down, or
his plans for the future, or any personal reflections about his own legacy?”
asked the journalist after Mass yesterday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. This
reporter had gotten up early to watch the last Sunday Angelus address Pope
Benedict XVI would ever give, to 100,000 people in Saint Peter’s Square at noon
in Rome. He had spoken of Lent,
the Transfiguration of Jesus (the gospel for Sunday), and prayer. “Because,” I
replied, trying to provide an answer to the journalist’s fair-enough inquiry,
“Popes don’t talk about themselves. They are really no longer themselves!
That’s why they change their name. They take literally what Saint Paul wrote,
that I live now –no, not I– Christ lives
in me.” They speak not of
themselves but of Jesus. That’s why!” “And you,” the reporter courteously
persisted, “you didn’t say a word about your plans, your departure for Rome,
your thoughts or observations. We got here to cover your 10:15 a.m. Mass, and
you only mentioned the Pope in one prayer, and didn’t say anything personal.”
“Same reason,” I responded. “The Mass is about Jesus, not about me.” That could
be the most profound lesson this great professor-pontiff has taught the world.
His heroic and humble decision of a week ago to step-down from the Chair of
Saint Peter is a lesson: in the end, when all is said and done, it’s not about
office, prominence, prestige, prerogatives. It’s not about me at all: it’s all
about Jesus and His Church. Tomorrow, though, I do leave New York for Rome. I
take you with me. When I have the
privilege of bidding farewell to the Holy Father this Thursday, the day he
leaves, I’ll tell him that we –you and me– love him, pray with and for him, and
thank him (…) ».
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