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Almost Without Being Aware Of It, We End Up Being Incapable Of Feeling Compassion At The Outcry Of The Poor, Weeping For Other People's Pain, And Feeling A Need To Help Them, As Though All This Were Someone Else's Responsibility And Not Our Own.

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Almost Without Being Aware

Pope Francis

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Almost Without Being Aware Of It, We End Up Being Incapable Of Feeling Compassion At The Outcry Of The Poor, Weeping For Other People's Pain, And Feeling A Need To Help Them, As Though All This Were Someone Else's Responsibility And Not Our Own.

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Imagine, To Become A Priest There Are Eight Years Of Study And Preparation, And Then If After A While You Can't Do It, You Can Ask For A Dispensation, You Leave, And Everything Is Ok. On The Other Hand, To Make A Sacrament (marriage), Which Is For Your Whole Life, Three To Four Conferences...preparation For Marriage Is Very Important. It's Very, Very Important Because I Believe It Is Something That In The Church, In Common Pastoral Ministry, At Least In My Country, In South America, The Church Has Not Valued Much.

Let Christ Turn Your Natural Optimism Into Christian Hope, Your Energy Into Moral Virtue, Your Good Will Into Genuine Self-sacrificin G Love! This Is The Path You Are Called To Take. This Is The Path To Overcoming All That Threatens Hope, Virtue And Love In Your Lives And In Your Culture. In This Way Your Youth Will Be A Gift To Jesus And To The World.

Reject All Forms Of Corruption That Divert Resources From The Poor

May The World Day Of Consecrated Life Be A Timely Occasion To Rediscover The Centrality Of Jesus In Our Lives.

Christian Love Is Loving Without Counting The Cost. This Is The Lesson Of The Good Samaritan; This Is The Lesson Of Jesus.

The Sacraments Are Jesus Christ’s Presence In Us. So It Is Important For Us To Go To Confession And Receive Holy Communion.

Children Are To Be Welcomed, Cherished, Protected.

Christians Know How To Face Difficulties, Trials And Defeat With Serenity And Hope In The Lord.

At Stake Are The Lives Of Many Children Who Will Be Discriminated Against In Advance, And Deprived Of Their Human Development Given By A Father And A Mother And Willed By God. At Stake Is The Total Rejection Of God’s Law Engraved In Our Hearts.

The Climate Is A Common Good, Belonging To All And Meant For All.

If In So Many Parts Of The World There Are Children Who Have Nothing To Eat, That's Not News, It Seems Normal. It Cannot Be This Way!

Peace Is A Daily Commitment. It Is A Homemade Peace.

We Also Try To Reach Out To People Who Are Far Away, Via Digital Means, The Web And Brief Messaging.

Man Has Slapped Nature In The Face. If You Slap It, It Will Slap You Back.

I Would Like That All Of Us, After These Days Of Grace, Might Have The Courage - The Courage - To Walk In The Presence Of The Lord, With The Cross Of The Lord: To Build The Church On The Blood Of The Lord, Which Is Shed On The Cross, And To Profess The One Glory, Christ Crucified. In This Way, The Church Will Go Forward.

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