Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said in a 2007 interview: “Christianity, Catholicism, is not a collection of prohibitions: It’ a positive option. It’s very important that we look at it again because this idea has almost completely disappeared today."

So, if we find the Church too demanding, we must have a wrong image of the Church and of Christ. If we see these commandments not as a restriction but as an assistance to find our way, we could come to the conclusion that Jesus offers positive points, as Pope Emeritus Benedict said. We are invited to share these positive options as Andrew did with his brother, Simon.
~by Fr.Rudy Horst, SVD

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