{"id":1259307,"date":"2022-01-31T18:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1259307"},"modified":"2022-01-31T18:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T23:22:55","slug":"pope-francis-if-we-look-for-miracles-we-will-not-find-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-if-we-look-for-miracles-we-will-not-find-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: \u2018If We Look for Miracles, We Will Not Find Jesus\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-if-we-look-for-miracles-we-will-not-find-jesus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1259307&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FOTO_1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">ROME, Italy \u2014 Pope Francis said Sunday that those who seek miracles will never find Jesus but only those who humbly accept him as he is.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus \u201cis not found by those who seek miracles \u2013 if we look for miracles, we will not find Jesus \u2013 by those who seek new sensations, intimate experiences, strange things; those who seek a faith made up of power and external signs,\u201d the pontiff told those gathered in Saint Peter\u2019s Square for his weekly Angelus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/angelus\/2022\/documents\/20220130-angelus.html\">message<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNo, they will not find him,\u201d Francis said. \u201cInstead, he is found only by those who accept his ways and his challenges, without complaint, without suspicion, without criticism and long faces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the gospel <a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/013022.cfm\">reading<\/a> of the day, which narrates the rejection Jesus experienced by his townspeople of Nazareth, who attempted to kill him, the pope said Christians must be ready for Jesus to challenge them.<\/p>\n<p>On returning to Nazareth, \u201cJesus finds incomprehension and even hostility,\u201d Francis noted. \u201cHis fellow villagers, rather than a word of truth, wanted miracles and prodigious signs.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cJesus asks you to accept him in the daily reality that you live; in the Church of today, as it is; in those who are close to you every day; in the reality of those in need, in the problems of your family, in your parents, in your children, in grandparents, in welcoming God there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes humility to encounter God, to let ourselves be encountered by him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way of receiving God is always to be ready, to welcome and him and to be humble,\u201d the pope proposed. \u201cFaith passes through here: readiness and humility\u201d and not \u201crigid and closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People who say they know everything about Jesus are fools, Francis declared. \u201cDon\u2019t be foolish, you don\u2019t know Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When we think we know Jesus, we \u201cget used to Jesus\u201d and then \u201cwe close ourselves off to his newness, to the moment in which he knocks on our door and asks you something new, and wants to enter into you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lord always surprises us: this is the beauty of the encounter with Jesus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME, Italy \u2014 Pope Francis said Sunday that those who seek miracles will never find Jesus but only those who humbly accept him as he is. 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