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And Now I Would Like To Give The Blessing, But First - First I Ask A Favor Of You: Before The Bishop Blesses His People, I Ask You To Pray To The Lord That He Will Bless Me: The Prayer Of The People Asking The Blessing For Their Bishop.

-Pope Francis

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And Now I Would Like To Give The Blessing, But First - First I Ask A Favor Of You: Before The Bishop Blesses His People, I Ask You To Pray To The Lord That He Will Bless Me: The Prayer Of The People Asking The Blessing For Their Bishop.

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If A Person Has Done Wrong, Is Conscious Of What He Has Done And Does Not Say Sorry, I Ask God To Take Him Into Account. I Forgive Him, But He Does Not Receive That Forgiveness, He Is Closed To Forgiveness. We Must Forgive, Because We Were All Forgiven. It Is Another Thing To Receive That Forgiveness.

There Are Some Things We Really Need To Take Care Of: The Children, And Grandparents. Children, Whether They Are Young Or Older, They Are The Strength That Moves Us Forward. We Place Our Hope In Them.grandparents Are The Living Memory Of The Family. They Passed On The Faith, They Transmitted The Faith, To Us.

If We Live According To The Law "an Eye For An Eye...," We Will Never Escape From The Spiral Of Evil.

For Just As Some People Want A Purely Spiritual Christ, Without Flesh And Without The Cross, They Also Want Their Interpersonal Relationships Provided By Sophisticated Equipment, By Screens And Systems Which Can Be Turned On And Off On Command. Meanwhile, The Gospel Tells Us Constantly To Run The Risk Of A Face-to-face Encounter With Others, With Their Physical Presence Which Challenges Us, With Their Pain And Their Pleas, With Their Joy Which Infects Us In Our Close And Continuous Interaction.

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

I Feel So Low That Instead Of Picking Myself Up I Have To Cut Others Down.

The Corrupt Should Be Tied To A Rock & Thrown Into The Sea

The Blood Of Our Christian Brothers Is A Witness That Cries Out..if They Are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, It Is Not Important : They Are Christians. The Blood Is The Same: It Is The Blood Which Confesses Christ.

There Are People Who Are Afraid To Go To Confession, Forgetting That They Will Not Encounter A Severe Judge There, But The Immensely Merciful Father.

Our Life Must Be Centred On What Is Essential, On Jesus Christ. Everything Else Is Secondary.

Your Sins Are Great? Just Tell The Lord: Forgive Me, Help Me To Get Up Again, Change My Heart!

Jesuits Make A Vow Of Obedience To The Pope. But If The Pope Is A Jesuit, Perhaps He Has To Make A Vow Of Obedience To The General Of The Jesuits! I Don’t Know How To Resolve This … I Feel A Jesuit In My Spirituality; In The Spirituality Of The Exercises, The Spirituality Deep In My Heart.

You Have A Specific And Important Mission, That Of Keeping Alive The Relationship Between The Faith And The Cultures Of The Peoples To Whom You Belong. . . . [w]e Have To Follow Christ Along The Concrete Path Of Our Daily Lives So That He Can Transform Us.

We Must Walk United With Our Differences: There Is No Other Way To Become One. This Is The Way Of Jesus.

Following Jesus Means Taking Up One's Own Cross To Accompany Him On His Path, An Uncomfortable Path That Is Not One Of Success Or Earthly Glory, But Which Leads To True Freedom, The Freedom From Selfishness And Sin.

And Now I Would Like To Give The Blessing, But First - First I Ask A Favor Of You: Before The Bishop Blesses His People, I Ask You To Pray To The Lord That He Will Bless Me: The Prayer Of The People Asking The Blessing For Their Bishop.

We, The Women And Men Of The Church, We Are In The Middle Of A Love Story: Each Of Us Is A Link In This Chain Of Love. And If We Do Not Understand This, We Have Understood Nothing Of What The Church Is.

The Son Of God Became Incarnate In The Souls Of Men To Instill The Feeling Of Brotherhood. All Are Brothers And All Children Of God.

Let Us Pray For The Many Christians In The World Who Still Suffer Persecution And Violence. May God Grant Them The Courage Of Fidelity.

We Are Called To Reach Out To Those Who Find Themselves In The Existential Peripheries Of Our Societies And To Show Particular Solidarity With The Most Vulnerable Of Our Brothers And Sisters: The Poor, The Disabled, The Unborn And The Sick, Migrants And Refugees, The Elderly And The Young Who Lack Employment.

There Is No Cross, Big Or Small, In Our Life Which The Lord Does Not Share With Us.

Ours Is Not A Joy Born Of Having Many Possessions, But Of Having Encountered A Person: Jesus In Our Midst.

When We Read About Creation In Genesis, We Run The Risk Of Imagining God Was A Magician, With A Magic Wand Able To Do Everything. But That Is Not So. God Is Not A Demiurge [demigod] Or A Magician, But The Creator Who Gives Being To All Entities. Evolution In Nature Is Not Opposed To The Notion Of Creation, Because Evolution Presupposes The Creation Of Beings That Evolve.

Theory Of Evolution

Human Trafficking Is A Scourge, A Crime Against The Whole Of Humanity. It Is Time To Join Forces And Work Together To Free Its Victims And To Eradicate This Crime That Affects All Of Us, From Individual Families To The Worldwide Community.

Working Together

From The Way Children Are Treated Society Can Be Judged.

The Human Person Is In Danger: This Is Certain, The Human Person Is In Danger Today, Here Is The Urgency Of Human Ecology! And It Is A Serious Danger Because The Cause Of The Problem Is Not Superficial But Profound: It Is Not Just A Matter Of Economics, But Of Ethics And Anthropology.

The Two Key Words For The European Union Are Creativity And Fruitfulness. That's The Challenge.

The Holy Spirit Is A Great Worker, Not A 'trade Unionist.' He Is A Great Worker, And He Works In Us, Always. He Does This Work Of Explaining The Mystery Of Jesus, And Of Giving Us This Sense Of Christ.

We Ask For Peace And Freedom For The Many Men And Women Subject To Old And New Forms Of Enslavement On The Part Of Criminal Individuals And Groups.

In These Times Of Suffering Prayer Is Of Even More Help.

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.

Christians Must Respond To Evil With Good, Taking The Cross Upon Themselves As Jesus Did

Let's Return To Our First Love, In Order To Receive The Fire Which Jesus Has Kindled In The World And To Bring That Fire To All People, To The Very Ends Of The Earth.

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