Beware of Museum Faith: The Church is Battlefield Hospital!

You've heard of cafeteria Catholics, based and expressed in a "pick and choose" morality and religion. Now, Pope Francis, ups the ante.

Pope Francis frequently alludes to what he calls museum Catholicism: faith treated as simply a precious and sacred Deposit to be cherished, preserved, and guarded, and shared but sparingly and only with the greatest discretion and with sundry regulations and restrictions.

We Catholics, due to our selfishness, are licentious and indolent dogs who base our life on avoiding the pigs (those who habitually ignore and even wantonly reject the Faith) while the whole world goes to the Devil; and we continue in our little paradise sanctuaries (traditional, conservative, liberal as they may be), pretending to be holy, hoping to be holy,...even striving to be holy--which ends up meaning separated and uninvolved with the myriads who are dying on all sides! And we ourselves are dead in our sins!

This is the predominant fault and occupational hazard of fervent Catholics and perhaps especially of traditional Catholics. The Faith is shared sparingly if at all and most of our emphasis is on ourselves!

Solution: "Go out to all the world and tell the Gospel!" That is the traditional and the only answer to our problem and the problem of the whole world!

Get the committed Catholics out of themselves--to put their lives at the service of the Gospel--like Christ and the Apostles--before others, in the world!--and you conquer the world!

When is the last time you told someone: "Jesus Christ loves you!", "Jesus Christ gave His life for you!", "Jesus Christ gave His life to save you and He is alive right now and is with you every day, to enlighten you, to strengthen you, to set you free."? Evangelii Gaudium, 164

Make your life revolve around this one thing, to bring Christ consciously to all people near and far: that they may know the love of God.

The Church is not a museum but the battlefield hospital of the world to treat and save the immense masses of wounded humanity, one by one. And every believer needs to be at the task of bringing in and treating the wounded that they may be saved!

Do something! for others, for Christ! Get out of yourself! And you will save your soul!

Thank you Pope Francis for incarnating this most essential evangelical insight.