Please, Holy Father, know that you have missed the mark

Once again, Pope Francis has given us an Exhortation.  As you can see by the word cloud above, the real message hiding in Gaudete et exultate is "Saint Can Love Life, Jesus Lord, God, Others with Good Will"

Not as eloquent as the last word cloud, and perhaps can be rearranged.  Any takers in the comments?

Once again though, nice idea, telling us to embrace holiness, but the problems are in the details.

I find it problematic that in Gaudete et exsultate, a quick word search for "repentance", "penance" and "confession" are not mentioned as a path to holiness, "conversion" is mentioned only once as one possible path to holiness, and the Eucharist and Reconciliation and devotions are only mentioned as a path to sanctification "we are familiar with" and thus, apparently, don't need to be mentioned in depth (Paragraph 110).  In a world where 5/6 Catholics reject weekly Mass, I think that is a horrible assumption that we are currently familiar with the sacraments.

Paragraphs 35-62 inclusive are extremely problematic, given that he then engages in this very error himself in paragraphs 158-175 when he invokes the Jesuit semi-pelagian disciplines of discernment and subjective conscience against Church Teaching!  Paragraphs 168 and 173 are especially painful, given the change that this Pope claims is from the spirit, yet wounds so much the victims of pederasty and divorce.

This form of holiness, that hates contemplation and prayer (right up front in paragraph 26 he claims that contemplatives, hermits, and anchorites are in fact "unhealthy"), is rather strange to me, though at one time I followed that path of only the corporal works of mercy and never the spiritual works myself. But when I followed that path of only the active life, I did not find holiness, I did not find joy, but merely escape from my sin. To find forgiveness for my sin required repentance, and in repentance, lies true holiness.

And finally, pro-lifers, the correct response to the pulled out of context quote from Paragraph 101 "Equally sacred, however, are the lives of the poor, those already born, the destitute, the abandoned and the underprivileged, the vulnerable infirm and elderly exposed to covert euthanasia, the victims of human trafficking, new forms of slavery, and every form of rejection." is found in the very sentence before "Our defence of the innocent unborn, for example, needs to be clear, firm and passionate, for at stake is the dignity of a human life, which is always sacred and demands love for each person, regardless of his or her stage of development." (clearly, whomever translated this is from England!)

Please, Holy Father, know that we, your abused children, have adopted rigidity for our very survival. That we are rigid not out of gnostic and pelagian selfishness, but out of actual harm done to our families and ourselves by the embrace of sexual revolutionary ideas by the clergy and the consecrated. We are rigid because we have to be- to protect our sons and our daughters from pornographers and sex traffickers that are not only common in society, but have even infested the clergy of the church. We have a need to protect intact marriages from the abuse of divorce. 

We are the wounded. Why has the church abandoned us?