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A Second Key Area Where You Are Called To Make A Contribution Is In Showing Concern For The Environment. This Is Not Only Because This Country, More Than Many Others, Is Likely To Be Seriously Affected By Climate Change. You Are Called To Care For Creation Not Only As Responsible Citizens, But Also As Followers Of Christ!

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A Second Key Area

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A Second Key Area Where You Are Called To Make A Contribution Is In Showing Concern For The Environment. This Is Not Only Because This Country, More Than Many Others, Is Likely To Be Seriously Affected By Climate Change. You Are Called To Care For Creation Not Only As Responsible Citizens, But Also As Followers Of Christ!

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Dear Young People, Do Not Be Afraid Of Making Decisive Choices In Life. Have Faith; The Lord Will Not Abandon You!

The First Reform Must Be The Attitude. The Ministers Of The Gospel Must Be People Who Can Warm The Hearts Of The People, Who Walk Through The Dark Night With Them, Who Know How To Dialogue And To Descend Themselves Into Their People's Night, Into The Darkness, But Without Getting Lost. The People Of God Want Pastors, Not Clergy Acting Like Bureaucrats Or Government Officials.

The Life Of A Family Is Filled With Beautiful Moments: Rest, Meals Together, Walks In The Park Or The Countryside, Visits To Grandparents Or To A Sick Person... But If Love Is Missing, Joy Is Missing, Nothing Is Fun. Jesus Gives Always Gives Us That Love: He Is Its Endless Source. In The Sacrament He Gives Us His Word And He Gives Us The Bread Of Life, So That Our Joy May Be Complete.

Given - And This Is The Fundamental Thing - That God's Mercy Has No Limits, If He Is Approached With A Sincere And Repentant Heart, The Question For Those Who Do Not Believe In God Is To Abide By Their Own Conscience. There Is Sin, Also For Those Who Have No Faith, In Going Against One's Conscience. Listening To It And Abiding By It Means Making Up One's Mind About What Is Good And Evil.

Finding God In All Things Is Not An 'empirical Eureka.' When We Desire To Encounter God, We Would Like To Verify Him Immediately By An Empirical Method. But You Cannot Meet God This Way...a Contemplative Attitude Is Necessary: It Is The Feeling That You Are Moving Along The Good Path Of Understanding And Affection Toward Things And Situations. Profound Peace, Spiritual Consolation, Love Of God, And Love Of All Things In God-this Is The Sign That You Are On This Right Path.

At The First Meeting I Had With The (italian) Bishops In May 2013, One Of The Three Things I Said Was: With The Italian Government You're On Your Own. Because The Pope Is For Everybody And He Can't Insert Himself In The Specific Internal Politics Of A Country. This Is Not The Role Of The Pope, Right?

Let Us Go Back To The Lord. The Lord Never Tires Of Forgiving: Never! It Is We Who Tire Of Asking His Forgiveness. Let Us Ask For The Grace Not To Tire Of Asking Forgiveness, Because He Never Tires Of Forgiving.

Each Encounter With Jesus Changes Our Life.

It Seems That Humanity Is Incapable Of Putting A Halt To The Shedding Of Innocent Blood.

We Can Walk When We Want To, We Can Build Many Things, But If We Do Not Witness To Jesus Christ Then It Doesn't Matter. We Might Become A Philanthropic Ngo But We Wouldn't Be The Church, The Bride Of The Lord.

I Entrust This Twenty-second World Day Of The Sick To The Intercession Of Mary. I Ask Her To Help The Sick To Bear Their Sufferings In Fellowship With Jesus Christ And To Support All Those Who Care For Them. To All The Ill, And To All The Health-care Workers And Volunteers Who Assist Them, I Cordially Impart My Apostolic Blessing.

The Holy Spirit Transforms And Renews Us, Creates Harmony And Unity, And Gives Us Courage And Joy For Mission.

Human Beings Are Themselves Considered Consumer Goods To Be Used And Then Discarded. We Have Created A 'disposable' Culture Which Is Now Spreading. It Is No Longer Simply About Exploitation And Oppression, But Something New.

[mexican People] Have A Culture, A Culture That Goes Back Millennia.

Let's Not Be Naive, We're Not Talking About A Simple Political Battle; It Is A Destructive Pretension Against The Plan Of God. We Are Not Talking About A Mere Bill, But Rather A Machination Of The Father Of Lies That Seeks To Confuse And Deceive The Children Of God.

We Learn Many Virtues In Our Christian Families. Above All, We Learn To Love, Asking Nothing In Return.

Before All Else, The Gospel Invites Us To Respond To The God Of Love Who Saves Us, To See God In Others And To Go Forth From Ourselves To Seek The Good Of Others.

I Want To See The Church Get Closer To The People. I Want To Get Rid Of Clericalism, The Mundane, This Closing Ourselves Off Within Ourselves, In Our Parishes, Schools Or Structures. Because These Need To Get Out!

Dear Young People, Christ Asks You To Be Wide Awake And Alert, To See The Things In Life That Really Matter.

If A Company Can Declare Bankruptcy, Why Can't A Country Do So?

Every Man, Every Woman Who Has To Take Up The Service Of Government, Must Ask Themselves Two Questions: ‘do I Love My People In Order To Serve Them Better? Am I Humble And Do I Listen To Everybody, To Diverse Opinions In Order To Choose The Best Path.’ If You Don’t Ask Those Questions, Your Governance Will Not Be Good.

Breathing Is Made Up Of Two Stages: Inhaling, The Intake Of Air, And Exhaling, The Letting Out Of Air. The Spiritual Life Is Fed, Nourished, By Prayer And Is Expressed Outwardly Through Mission: Inhaling And Exhaling. When We Inhale, By Prayer, We Receive The Fresh Air Of The Holy Spirit.

Reject Every Form Of Corruption.

Mercy Is The True Power That Can Save Humanity And The World From Sin And Evil.

For Her Part, The Church Always Works For The Integral Development Of Every Person. In This Sense, She Reiterates That The Common Good Should Not Be Simply An Extra, Simply A Conceptual Scheme Of Inferior Quality Tacked Onto Political Programmes. The Church Encourages Those In Power To Be Truly At The Service Of The Common Good Of Their Peoples.

Let Us Not Forget This Word: God Never Ever Tires Of Forgiving Us!

If Someone Is Gay And Is Searching For The Lord And Has Good Will, Then Who Am I To Judge Him?... No One Should Marginalize These People For This, They Must Be Integrated Into Society.

When You Lose The Capacity To Dream, You Lose The Capacity To Love, And The Energy To Love Is Lost.

Capacity To Love

If You Don’t Learn How To Cry, You Cannot Be A Good Christian. When They Posed This Question To Us – Why Children Suffer, Why This Or That Tragedy Occurs In Life – Our Response Must Be Either Silence Or A Word That Is Born Of Our Tears. Be Courageous, Don’t Be Afraid To Cry.

Prayer, Humility, And Charity Toward All Are Essential In The Christian Life: They Are The Way To Holiness.

We Must Avoid The Spiritual Disease Of The Church That Can Become Self-referential: When This Happens, The Church Itself Becomes Sick. It’s True That Accidents Can Happen When You Go Out Into The Street, As Can Happen To Any Man Or Woman. But If The Church Remains Closed Onto Itself, Self-referential, It Grows Old. Between A Church That Goes Into The Street And Gets Into An Accident And A Church That Is Sick With Self-referentiality, I Have No Doubts In Preferring The First.

... This Task Entrusted To Us By God The Creator Requires Us To Grasp The Rhythm And Logic Of Creation. But We Are Often Driven By Pride Of Domination, Of Possessions, Manipulation, Of Exploitation; We Do Not "care" For It, We Do Not Respect It, We Do Not Consider It As A Free Gift That We Must Care For.

In The Gospel We Have Just Heard, Jesus, The Master, Teaches The Crowds And The Small Group Of His Disciples By Accommodating Himself To Their Ability To Understand. ... Jesus Does Not Seek To 'play The Professor.' Instead, He Seeks To Reach People's Hearts, Their Understanding And Their Lives, So That They May Bear Fruit.

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