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All Of Us Must Care For Life, Cherish Life, With Tenderness, Warmth...to Give Life Is To Open (our) Heart, And To Care For Life Is To (give Oneself) In Tenderness And Warmth For Others, To Have Concern In My Heart For Others. Caring For Life From The Beginning To The End. What A Simple Thing, What A Beautiful Thing..so, Go Forth And Don't Be Discouraged. Care For Life. It's Worth It.

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All Of Us Must Care For Life, Cherish Life, With Tenderness, Warmth...to Give Life Is To Open (our) Heart, And To Care For Life Is To (give Oneself) In Tenderness And Warmth For Others, To Have Concern In My Heart For Others. Caring For Life From The Beginning To The End. What A Simple Thing, What A Beautiful Thing..so, Go Forth And Don't Be Discouraged. Care For Life. It's Worth It.

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May We Try To Listen And Be Silent In Order To Make Space For The Beauty Of God.

It Is Also Painful To See That The Struggle Against Hunger And Malnutrition Is Hindered By Market Priorities, The Primacy Of Profit, Which Have Reduced Foodstuffs To A Commodity Like Any Other, Subject To Speculation, Also Of A Financial Nature, The Hungry Remain, At The Street Corner, And Ask To Be Recognized As Citizens, To Receive A Healthy Diet. We Ask For Dignity, Not For Charity.

I Think We Too Are The People Who, On The One Hand, Want To Listen To Jesus, But On The Other Hand, At Times, Like To Find A Stick To Beat Others With, To Condemn Others. And Jesus Has This Message For Us: Mercy. I Think - And I Say It With Humility - That This Is The Lord's Most Powerful Message: Mercy.

Each One Of Us Is Called To Be An Artisan Of Peace, By Uniting And Not Dividing, By Extinguishing Hatred And Not Holding On To It, By Opening Paths To Dialogue And Not By Constructing New Walls!

Let Us Protect Christ In Our Lives, So That We Can Protect Others, So That We Can Protect Creation!

Let Those Desert Places In Our Hearts Bloom.

How Wonderful It Is To Be Surprised By God’s Call, To Embrace His Word, And To Walk In The Footsteps Of Jesus... Your Life Will Become Richer And More Joyful Each Day!

A Church Without Women Is Like The College Of The Apostles Without Mary... Our Lady Is More Important Than The Apostles! She Is More Important! The Church Is Feminine. She Is Church, She Is Bride, She Is Mother.

Since Many Of You Do Not Belong To The Catholic Church And Others Are Non-believers, From The Bottom Of My Heart I Give This Silent Blessing To Each And Every One Of You, Respecting The Conscience Of Each One Of You But Knowing That Each One Of You Is A Child Of God.

The Great Challenge Facing Us Today Is To Learn Once Again How To Talk To One Another, Not Simply How To Generate And Consume Information. The Latter Is A Tendency Which Our Important And Influential Modern Communications Media Can Encourage. Information Is Important, But It Is Not Enough. All Too Often Things Get Simplified, Different Positions And Viewpoints Are Pitted Against One Another, And People Are Invited To Take Sides, Rather Than To See Things As A Whole.

We Ask The Risen Jesus, Who Turns Death Into Life, To Change Hatred Into Love, Vengeance Into Forgiveness, War Into Peace. Yes, Christ Is Our Peace, And Through Him To Implore Peace For All The World.

Jesus Tells Us What The 'protocol' Is, On Which We Will Be Judged. It Is The One We Read In Chapter 25 Of Matthew's Gospel: I Was Hungry, I Was Thirsty, I Was In Prison, I Was Sick, I Was Naked And You Helped Me, Clothed Me, Visited Me, Took Care Of Me. Whenever We Do This To One Of Our Brothers, We Do This To Jesus. Caring For Our Neighbor; For Those Who Are Poor, Who Suffer In Body And In Soul, For Those Who Are In Need. This Is The Touchstone.

This Generation, And Many Others, Have Been Led To Believe That The Devil Is A Myth, A Figure, An Idea, The Idea Of Evil... But The Devil Exists And We Must Fight Against Him.

I Don't Like To Speak Of Islamic Violence, Because Every Day, When I Browse The Newspapers, I See Violence, Here In Italy... This One Who Has Murdered His Girlfriend, Another Who Has Murdered The Mother-in-law... And These Are Baptized Catholics! There Are Violent Catholics!

Gossip Can Also Kill, Because It Kills The Reputation Of The Person! It Is So Terrible To Gossip! At First It May Seem Like A Nice Thing, Even Amusing, Like Enjoying A Candy. But In The End, It Fills The Heart With Bitterness, And Even Poisons Us.

May All People Here Find Inspiration And Strength To Build A Future Of Reconciliation, Justice And Peace For All The Children Of This Beloved Land.

With God, Nothing Is Lost; But Without Him, Everything Is Lost.

The World Makes Us Look Towards Ourselves, Our Possessions, Our Desires.the Gospel Invites Us To Be Open To Others, To Share With The Poor.

Laboratories Are Useful, But Reflection For Us Must Always Start From Experience.

Our World Is Facing A Refugee Crisis Of A Magnitude Not Seen Since The Second World War. This Presents Us With Great Challenges And Many Hard Decisions.

Proceed Calmly In Life.

Mary Is More Important Than The Apostles.

Joy Adapts And Changes, But It Always Endures, Even As A Flicker Of Light Born Of Our Personal Certainty That, When Everything Is Said And Done, We Are Infinitely Loved.

Our Efforts Must Aim At Restoring Hope, Righting Wrongs, Maintaining Commitments, And Thus Promoting The Well-being Of Individuals And Of Peoples.

I Have A Dogmatic Certainty: God Is In Every Person's Life. God Is In Everyone's Life. Even If The Life Of A Person Has Been A Disaster, Even If It Is Destroyed By Vices, Drugs Or Anything Else - God Is In This Person's Life. You Can - You Must - Try To Seek God In Every Human Life.

Dear Young People, Always Be Missionaries Of The Gospel, Every Day And In Every Place.

Whenever Our Interior Life Becomes Caught Up In Its Own Interests And Concerns, There Is No Longer Room For Others, No Place For The Poor.

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