The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.
We were looking for a ‘good shepherd,’ and instead we got a German shepherd.
Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.
Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.
This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
We must trust in the mighty power of God’s mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.
Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us.
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me – a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.
The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by “attraction”: just as Christ “draws all to himself” by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission...
Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity.
Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.
To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself.
If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.