{"id":1608,"date":"2017-02-27T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combonimission.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2017-02-27T17:58:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T17:58:04","slug":"pope-francis-women-bring-harmony-that-makes-the-world-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/27\/pope-francis-women-bring-harmony-that-makes-the-world-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: \u201cWomen Bring Harmony That Makes The World Beautiful\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWithout women, there is no harmony in the world\u201d. That was the message of Pope Francis in his recent homily at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta. <\/em><\/p>\n

Pope Francis was continuing his reflections on creation, the subject of the readings for the past few days, taken from the Book of Genesis. The Lord had formed every sort of animal, but the man did not find a companion in any of them; he was alone. Then the Lord took a rib and created woman, who the man recognised as \u201cflesh of his flesh\u201d.<\/em> \u201cBut before seeing her\u201d,<\/em> the Pope said, \u201cthe man dreamed of her\u2026 In order to understand a woman, it is necessary first to dream of her”.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOften when we speak about women\u201d,<\/em> the Pope said, we think of them in a \u2018functionalist\u2019 manner. Instead, we should see women as bearers of a richness that men do not possess, and women bring harmony to creation. \u201cWhen women are not there, harmony is missing. We might say, but this is a society with a strong masculine attitude, and this is the case, no? The woman is missing. \u2018Yes, yes: the woman is there to wash the dishes, to do things\u2026\u2019 No, no, no! The woman is there to bring harmony. Without women, there is no harmony. They are not equal, one is not superior to the other, no. It\u2019s just that the man does not bring harmony. It\u2019s her. It is she who brings that harmony that teaches us to caress, to love with tenderness; and who makes the world a beautiful place.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In his homily, the Pope considered three moments in Creation: the solitude of the man, the dream, and the destiny of both the man and the woman: to be \u201cone flesh\u201d.<\/em> <\/p>\n

The Holy Father gave a concrete example. Once, during an audience, while he greeted the people, he asked a couple who were celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary, \u201cwhich of you has had the most patience?\u201d<\/em>. \u201cThey looked at me, they looked me in the eyes, I\u2019ll never forget those eyes, eh? \u2013 then they turned and they told me, both together: \u2018We are in love.\u2019 After 60 years, this means \u2018one flesh\u2019 and this is what the woman brings: the capacity to love one another”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Often we hear \u2018No, it is necessary in this society, in this institution, that here there should be a woman because she does this, she does these things\u2019.<\/em> No, no, no, no! Functionality is not the purpose of women. It is true that women should do things, to do things as we all do. The purpose of women is to make harmony, and without women there is no harmony in the world. Exploiting people is a crime of \u2018l\u00e8se-humanit\u00e9\u2019, it\u2019s true. But exploiting a woman is even more serious: it is destroying the harmony that God has chosen to give to the world. It is to destroy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Exploiting a woman, then, is not only a crime, it amounts to \u201cdestroying harmony<\/em>\u201d, the Pope said, referring also to the day\u2019s Gospel story of the Syrophoenician woman. <\/p>\n

Pope Francis concluded his reflection with a personal note: \u201cThis is the great gift of God: He has given us woman. And in the Gospel, we have heard what a woman is capable of, eh? She is courageous, that one, eh? She went forward with courage. But there is more, so much more. A woman is harmony, is poetry, is beauty. Without her the world would not be so beautiful, it would not be harmonious. And I like to think \u2013 but this is a personal thing \u2013 that God created women so that we would all have a mother\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWithout women, there is no harmony in the world\u201d. That was the message of Pope Francis in his recent homily at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta. Pope Francis was continuing his reflections on creation, the subject of the readings for the past few days, taken from the Book of Genesis. The Lord […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}