The Pope reflected on the obstacles to organized religious belief inwards the modern footing inwards his homily for Christmas Eve. There was 'no room at the inn'. Truth 'came to his ain home, together with his ain people received him not' (Jn 1:11).
'The faster nosotros tin give notice move, the to a greater extent than efficient our time-saving appliances become, the less fourth dimension nosotros have. And God? The interrogation of God never seems urgent. Our fourth dimension is already completely full. But matters choke deeper still. Does God real have a identify inwards our thinking? Our procedure of thinking is structured inwards such a way that he exactly ought non to exist. Even if he seems to knock at the door of our thinking, he has to move explained away. If thinking is to move taken seriously, it must move structured inwards such a way that the "God hypothesis" becomes superfluous. There is no room for him.
'Not fifty-fifty inwards our feelings together with desires is in that place whatever room for him. We wishing ourselves. We wishing what nosotros tin give notice seize concord of, nosotros wishing happiness that is inside our reach, nosotros wishing our plans together with purposes to succeed. We are together with then "full" of ourselves that in that place is no room left for God. And that agency in that place is no room for others either, for children, for the poor, for the stranger.
'By reflecting on that 1 unproblematic proverb almost the lack of room at the inn, nosotros cause got come upwards to encounter how much nosotros postulate to hear to Saint Paul’s exhortation: "Be transformed yesteryear the renewal of your mind" (Rom 12:2). Paul speaks of renewal, the opening upwards of our intellect (nous), of the whole way nosotros sentiment the footing together with ourselves. The conversion that nosotros postulate must real achieve into the depths of our human relationship amongst reality.
'Let us inquire the Lord that nosotros may larn vigilant for his presence, that nosotros may hear how softly yet insistently he knocks at the door of our existence together with willing. Let us inquire that nosotros may brand room for him inside ourselves, that nosotros may recognize him likewise inwards those through whom he speaks to us: children, the suffering, the abandoned, those who are excluded together with the hapless of this world.'
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