Today, the Church is blessed with another Pope. He has taken the name Francis. He has some firsts in his reign. He is the first pope from the Americas. He is the first of the Jesuit order. And, he is the first named Francis. Hopefully, he can start to right what is wrong in the Church so that we can heal.
He comes from Latin America, even though his parents are from Italy. I hope and pray that he doesn't subscribe to 'Liberation Theology.' It is very prevalent in Latin countries, and has ruined the Faith there. He loves the poor, which we always have with us. He is against abortion, for celibacy. Those two things right there has me in his corner already. Only time will tell.
I will be checking into prophecies about what happens to the black pope, since Jesuits are the "Black Robes'. It's not for us to know everything about the end times, but we have been given clues to it.
Most of all, though, let us pray....
O God, who in your providential design
willed that your Church be built
upon blessed Peter, whom you set over the other apostles,
look with favor, we pray, on Francis, our Pope,
and grant that he, whom you have made Peter’s successor,
may be for your people a visible source and foundation
of unity in faith and of communion.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever.
Amen.
Let us also pray that he is friendly to those who love the 'Mass of the Ages', the Traditional Latin Mass.
Viva Papa Francesco!
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