Leo XIV Downplays Multiplication of Loaves As "Miracle of Sharing" - Just Like Francis
Today, Leo XIV sent a message to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), writing about the 'multiplication of the loaves' in the Gospel:
"We realize that the real miracle performed by Christ was to show that the key to overcoming hunger lies in sharing rather than in greedily hoarding."
This statement seems to reflect the spirit of Pope Francis. On multiple occasions, including at the Angelus on 2 June 2013, Francis spoke about the multiplication of loaves: "This is the miracle: rather than multiplication, it is sharing, inspired by faith and prayer."
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Prevost does not give a sermon that leads to repentance but uses the Gospel to give a naturalistic political discourse with purely materialistic ends.
The Church has condemned the heresy of naturalism and rationalism. Note that Prevost promotes both of these heretical ideas. Prevost does not proclaim the Gospel of Christ as the Redeemer of the World who saves us from Sin and eternal Death, but rather, as Archbishop Fulton Sheen explained in The Temptations of Christ in the Desert, the devil wanted Christ to become a socialist who would end poverty and material hunger, and he tempted him to abandon his redemptive mission and turn stones into bread. Judas the Traitor also did not seek Christ as the Savior of the World, but rather as a socialist reformer who would solve the material problems of his time. Prevost does exactly the same thing as Satan, transforming his false 'christ' into a socialist seeking to satisfy material hunger. Note also that Prevost speaks to an atheist/agnostic audience, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), whose agenda is supposedly to end "material hunger" disregarding God. Prevost speaks like any leftist politician and maliciously omits to teach them that Jesus rebuked the crowd for seeking Him only to want to satisfy their 'material hunger', and the danger of rejecting Jesus by not accepting him as Redeemer (John 6:66) who came to save us from Sin that leads to eternal damnation and came to remedy our Spiritual hunger. Prevost sins by omission by not reminding them that we were expelled from Paradise so that in a State of mortal Sin we would not eat from the Tree of Eternal Life and be eternally condemned. He sins by omission by not announcing to them that Christ came down from Heaven so that we could eat the true Bread in the Eucharist that gives eternal life.
The Church's ultimate trial
675 Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.
676 The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism. 578 Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris, condemning the "false mysticism" of this "counterfeit of the redemption of the lowly".
Sharing is not a miracle. To ignore an actual miracle and to posit a false one is a corruption of scripture.
Didn't the people learn that God is generous and gives out many blessings? If we are supposted to love Christ and follow his example should'nt we also be generous and bless those around us who are in need? The moral of the story can not only be, Jesus performs a miracle feeding the thousands, so, thats proof He's God in the flesh. There is more to it than just that.
No, they learned that when they follow Christ they need not worry. He will have care for them and that with Him all things are possible, even the naturally impossible.
The great "miracle of sharing" was not learned by the multitude, since Jesus Christ himself reproaches them the next day for seeking Him out of self-interest.
John 6:26
Jesus answered them, and said: Amen, amen I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
Saint Augustine: As if He said, you seek Me to satisfy the flesh, not the Spirit.
Saint Gregory. In their persons too our Lord condemns all those within the holy Church, who, when brought near to God by sacred Orders, do not seek the recompense of righteousness, but the interests of this present life. To follow our Lord, when filled with bread, is to use Holy Church as a means of livelihood; and to seek our Lord not for the miracle’s sake. but for the loaves, is to aspire to a religious office, not with a view to increase of grace, but to add to our worldly means. (Catena Aurea)
Where does it say that Pope Leo says that Christ did not multiply the loaves and fishes? Where did he say, oh, you see the real miracle is that Jesus inspires the Apostles to gather baskets and collect food from all the people as well as some food hidden in a nearby cave and redistribute it to everyone in order to teachpeople to share. Notice the Pope does not say that, yet, this is what the pope-deniers are claiming.
Another disciple of the deservedly underrated German theologian and online social influencer, Nincompoop. Otherwise best know as the coiner of the phrase, 'If you like this, share.' which appears to be the sum total of his Biblical insight.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The miracles of Christ showed that His supernatural doctrine was from God
God enables man to work miracles for two reasons. First and principally, in confirmation of the doctrine that a man teaches. […] Secondly, in order to make known God’s presence in a man by the grace of the Holy Ghost: so that when a man does the works of God we may believe that God dwells in him by His grace. Wherefore it is written (Gal. 3:5): ‘He who giveth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you.’ Now both these things were to be made known to men concerning Christ—namely, that God dwelt in Him by grace, not of adoption, but of union: and that His supernatural doctrine was from God. And therefore it was most fitting that He should work miracles. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica III, q.43, a.1)
Pope Leo XIII
Christ proves His own divinity and the divine origin of His mission by miracles
Christ proves His own divinity and the divine origin of His mission by miracles; He teaches the multitudes heavenly doctrine by word of mouth; and He absolutely commands that the assent of faith should be given to His teaching, promising eternal rewards to those who believe and eternal punishment to those who do not. […] Whatsoever He commands, He commands by the same authority. He requires the assent of the mind to all truths without exception. It was thus the duty of all who heard Jesus Christ, if they wished for eternal salvation, not merely to accept His doctrine as a whole, but to assent with their entire mind to all and every point of it, since it is unlawful to withhold faith from God even in regard to one single point. (Leo XIII. Encyclical Satis cognitum, no. 8, June 29, 1896)
One more comment from la verdad prevalece
Saint Irenaeus of Lyon taught
If anyone does not agree with the Gospels, he despises Christ and stands self-condemned.
Prevost emphasized that the "True Miracle" was not performed by Jesus multiplying the bread but rather by 'sharing', which is a distortion of Scripture.
"We realize that the real miracle performed by Christ was to show that the key to overcoming hunger lies in sharing rather than in greedily hoarding."
Apostate Jorge Mario Bergoglio Sivori: 68 – It is not true that Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes. It is not magic, it is a “sign”, a parable |
Vatican Council I (Ecumenical XX)
Anathema: for anyone considers the miracles in Sacred Scripture as fables and myths
[The demonstrability of revelation] If anyone shall have said that miracles are not possible, and hence that all accounts of them, even those contained in Sacred Scripture, are to be banished among the fables and myths; or, that miracles can never be known with certitude, and that the divine origin of the Christian religion cannot be correctly proved by them: let him be anathema. (Denzinger-Hünermann 3034. Vatican Council I. Dei Filius, April 24, 1870)
St. Augustine rightfully pointed out that Sacred Scripture reflects 3 levels or dimensions of understanding. There is the literal- historical, the anological or moral aspect, and lastly metaphorical or higher spiritual meaning. In the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, we find all three. Pope Leo in stressing the moral teaching did in no way deny the literal or the higher spiritual meaning.
“How is it,” He cried, “that you still do not understand? Did you think I was speaking of mere bread? Open your eyes—be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”
And then it dawned on them—not yeast as in flour and ovens, but the doctrine, the teaching, the subtle corruption that puffs up and deceives.
Yeast, yes, can make bread light and nourishing when rightly used. The interpretation that brings life to the loaf. But beware: not all rising comes from heaven. The pure word of God—that is the unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, the Corpus Christi. It is holy, undiluted, proceeding from the mouth of God like manna in the wilderness. That is the bread you are meant to eat.
But the Pharisees—ah, the Pharisees!—they add their own yeast, their own interpretations. And what comes forth from their ovens is not the bread of life, but something bloated, deceptive. It may look like bread, but it will not sustain you. You have just heard an example of such bread—and you felt it. Beware and thou didst beware.
Apostate Jorge Mario Bergoglio Sivori: 68 – It is not true that Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes. It is not magic, it is a “sign”, a parable |
Vatican Council I (Ecumenical XX)
Anathema: for anyone considers the miracles in Sacred Scripture as fables and myths
[The demonstrability of revelation] If anyone shall have said that miracles are not possible, and hence that all accounts of them, even those contained in Sacred Scripture, are to be banished among the fables and myths; or, that miracles can never be known with certitude, and that the divine origin of the Christian religion cannot be correctly proved by them: let him be anathema. (Denzinger-Hünermann 3034. Vatican Council I. Dei Filius, April 24, 1870)
Jesus said "I speak to you, and you believe not:
the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me."
Negating His words and/or and His works serve to deny His testimony that He is of the Father.
Christ's miracles are proof of his divinity. By giving them a humanistic explanation, Prevost denies them, thereby denying Christ's divinity.
That is to say, Prevost does not preach the Gospel of Christ but the anti-gospel of Bergoglio.
17 They answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two fishes.
18 He said to them: Bring them hither to me.
19 And when he had commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
20 And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments. Matthew 14
It's clear that those who have written and are writing the scripts for the two false popes are the same, and not exactly orthodox. By ignoring Jesus' miracles, they dilute the reality of his Divine Person, which is what they want: to deny that Christ is God.