@Daniel_Abraham1099

4 months ago

6:07 here I believe you are either being dishonest or did not read the document. It clearly states that there is a clear distinction INTERCESSORY blessings which ask God for help and AFFIRMING blessings which are used to praise/ affirm the works of God or People. In reference to blessing sinners, it is the former that is allowed NOT the latter. I don’t know why you think it is acceptable to make a video on a theological subject without showing viewers the actual text in question but instead relying on fast food media narratives to represent our church. Why should liberals listen to your complaints toward them for misrepresenting scripture and Jesus in media, when you are guilty of the same thing. The concept is not even new since in 2021- Francis made clear the Church’s position on the difference between blessing sin vs blessing sinners “At the same time, the Church recalls that God Himself never ceases to bless each of His pilgrim children in this world, because for Him “we are more important to God than all of the sins that we can commit”[12]. But he does not and cannot bless sin: he blesses sinful man, so that he may recognize that he is part of his plan of love and allow himself to be changed by him. He in fact “takes us as we are, but never leaves us as we are”[13]. For the above mentioned reasons, the Church does not have, and cannot have, the power to bless unions of persons of the same sex in the sense intended above.” https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/03/15/210315b.html Here are the relevant portions of the text released this week. Please read the full document “27. In the catechesis cited at the beginning of this Declaration, Pope Francis proposed a description of this kind of blessing that is offered to all without requiring anything. It is worth reading these words with an open heart, for they help us grasp the pastoral meaning of blessings offered without preconditions: “It is God who blesses. In the first pages of the Bible, there is a continual repetition of blessings. God blesses, but humans also give blessings, and soon it turns out that the blessing possesses a special power, which accompanies those who receive it throughout their lives, and disposes man’s heart to be changed by God. […] So we are more important to God than all the sins we can commit…, 28. There are several occasions when people spontaneously ask for a blessing, whether on pilgrimages, at shrines, or even on the street when they meet a priest. By way of example, we can refer to the Book of Blessings, which provides several rites for blessing people, including the elderly, the sick, participants in a catechetical or prayer meeting, pilgrims, those embarking on a journey, volunteer groups and associations, and more. 31…. In such cases [blessing members of irregular couples], a blessing may be imparted that not only has an ascending value but also involves the invocation of a blessing that descends from God upon those who—recognizing themselves to be destitute and in need of his help—do not claim a legitimation of their own status, but who beg that all that is true, good, and humanly valid in their lives and their relationships be enriched, healed, and elevated by the presence of the Holy Spirit. These forms of blessing express a supplication that God may grant those aids that come from the impulses of his Spirit—what classical theology calls “actual grace”—so that human relationships may mature and grow in fidelity to the Gospel, that they may be freed from their imperfections and frailties, and that they may express themselves in the ever-increasing dimension of the divine love.

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