Franciscan Simplicity

Just the other day he posted this:

This is the great meaning of #Christmas: God becomes man so that we can become children of God.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 10, 2021

It is striking that the Lord spent most of his time on Earth living an ordinary life, without standing out. It is a beautiful message that reveals the greatness of daily life, the importance in God's eyes of every gesture and moment of life, even the most simple.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 11, 2021

The "hidden life" or the daily life of Christ before His public ministry was nonetheless a manifestation of the glory of the Son of God. Daily life by itself is not "important to God"; what is important is that Christ redeemed it through His incarnation. It is not what we offer, but what God offers to us.

Icon of St. Michael

Details of Icon with half-length figure of St. Michael
Constantinople, late 10th-first half of 11th century
At the Treasury of San Marco in Venice pic.twitter.com/kcUrag1oRx

— The Byzantine Legacy (@ByzantineLegacy) January 11, 2021

"But JP2!"

Pope Francis just the consequence of that problem which is Latin ecclesiology/Roman claims about primacy.

Confusion twice confounded: On the motu proprio Spiritus Domini by Peter M.J. Stravinskas

pic.twitter.com/aKlHGEo6xG

— Ortho.Bro ☦️ (@bro_ortho) January 11, 2021

The Latest from Archbishop Viganò

Viganò. The Oath against Modernism, its Abolition, Ratzinger’s Faults. https://t.co/DZLWdn8j0W

— Marco Tosatti (@MarcoTosatti) January 11, 2021