English copy of Apostolat Jésus 13- Jésus a-t-il fuit la royauté terrestre, Jn 6 (4 mn) (4 mn) Did Jesus Escape the Earthly Kingdom? We see it in the Gospel according to St. John in chapter 6, when he multiplies the loaves, the people are so stupefied, that they decide to make them their king. It is said that Jesus, realizing that they were coming to seize him to make them their king, fled back to the mountain alone. When evening came, the disciples went down to the sea and there he joined them.
Here we touch on a subject that, in the Gospel, from Jesus is clear. He does not want to be a king of the earth. His kingdom is much bigger. It is the kingdom of souls. He reigns over hearts, telling them the meaning of life.
Who is God the Father, how He loves them, and who saw Jesus saw God. It is an eternal royalty. The Catholic Church, it will be confronted with this message, throughout its history, as well as all the Christian churches.
And at some point, to bring the sheep, and therefore the men, to Christ, she will dream of earthly kingship, and it will be given to her. It can be said that for a thousand years, in the Middle Ages, the Church by the Pope, by the bishops, had as an earthly royalty over the world. She could excommunicate a king, and the king lost his kingdom.
His apostolate technique was therefore to put the sheep in tight barriers, protected from wolves. The goal was not the power, the goal was the salvation of souls in any case for those who were really with a vocation of pastor.
And of course, they were directed, I would say with a scepter of iron, towards the direction of salvation. When wolves presented themselves, well, the Church did not hesitate sometimes to put them to death. Hence the violence that is sometimes out of this way of doing things.
In the year 2000 and after the Second Vatican Council, looking at its past, the Church realized that, of course, there was goodwill, it is necessary to put it in context, but it was not the method of Jesus.
And so resolutely, she decided, with the Second Vatican Council, to turn to the same kind of kingship as Christ. The Church is not infallible in pastoral care. She's searching. She understood that it was less effective, that it was better to remove these iron barriers.
Being a shepherd walking ahead of the flock, and the sheep hear his voice and they recognize that the voice comes from good, there are wolves that will steal sheep because they are no longer protected by barriers, but God he will know how to recover them.
He will know how to do it with the help of the pastors who are on earth, simply by preaching the truth. Suddenly, the Catholic Church, to the great anger of some antichrists who looked at the pastoral pastoral, where it was so powerful, decides to be poor as Christ.
The Popes speak humbly, they speak the truth. They say it in time and out of season and this truth, people sometimes despise it, reject it, but deep in their hearts, they feel that it is the truth. So deep as everything out there is torn apart and divided, it may be that this present apostolate of the Church is more effective than ever. Obviously, in view of the number of people who no longer go to Mass, who no longer practice, I understand the attitude of those who doubt, well, we must not doubt. Christ, at the hour of death, he comes, accompanied by saints and angels and in this passage, he will know how to catch the lost sheep, except those who obviously, will definitely despise his message. There we can do nothing for them, it is the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
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