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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.

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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.

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The Family Is The Greatest Treasure Of Any Country. Let Us All Work To Protect And Strengthen This, The Cornerstone Of Society.

Greatest Treasure

Once Capital Becomes An Idol And Guides People's Decisions, Once Greed For Money Presides Over The Entire Socioeconomic System, It Ruins Society, It Condemns And Enslaves Men And Women, It Destroys Human Fraternity, It Sets People Against One Another And It Even Puts At Risk Our Common Home.

I Want To Say One Word To You And This Word Is “joy”. Wherever There Are Consecrated People, Seminarians, Men And Women Religious, Young People, There Is Joy, There Is Always Joy!

During Lent, Let Us Find Concrete Ways To Overcome Our Indifference.

A Christian Who Does Not Pray For Those Who Govern Is Not A Good Christian.

Today, We Need A Church Capable Of Walking At People's Side, Of Doing More Than Simply Listening To Them.... At Times We Lose People Because They Don't Understand What We Are Saying, Because We Have Forgotten The Language Of Simplicity And Import An Intellectualism Foreign To Our People.... We Cannot Keep Ourselves Shut Up In Parishes, In Our Communities, When So Many People Are Waiting For The Gospel.

Wherever There Are Men And Women Who Have Consecrated Their Lives To God, There You Find Joy.

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

How Many Christians Live For Appearances? Their Life Seems Like A Soap Bubble. The Soap Bubble Is Beautiful, With All Its Colours! But It Lasts Only A Second, And Then What?

When I Saw From Rome That Catastrophe (brought By Yolanda) I Had To Be Here. And On Those Very Days I Decided To Come Here. I Am Here To Be With You – A Little Bit Late, But I’m Here.

I Allow Myself To Honor The Man Who Fought In Moments When He Had No Strength To Impose Himself, Until He Managed To Impose Himself. [joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger Deserves Applause.

Spiritual Worldliness Kills! It Kills The Soul! It Kills The Church!

The World Is Polarized. The Middle Class Becomes Smaller. The Polarization Makes The Difference Between Rich And The Poor Big. This Is True.

The Holy Spirit Truly Transforms Us. With Our Cooperation, He Also Wants To Transform The World We Live In.

It Is Horrific Even To Think That There Are Children, Victims Of Abortion, Who Will Never See The Light Of Day

Money Is Needed To Bring About Many Good Things But When Your Heart Is Attached, It Destroys You

My Authoritarian And Quick Manner Of Making Decisions Led Me To Have Serious Problems And To Be Accused Of Being Ultraconservative. I Have Never Been A Right-winger. It Was My Authoritarian Way Of Making Decisions That Created Problems.

You May Be Poor Yourselves In Material Ways, But You Have An Abundance Of Gifts To Offer When You Offer Christ And The Community Of His Church.

Let Us Ask Mary To Help Us Fix Our Eyes Intently On Jesus, To Follow Him Always, Even When This Is Demanding.

When Families Bring Children Into The World, Train Them In Faith And Sound Values, And Teach Them To Contribute To Society, They Become A Blessing In Our World.

The Media Only Writes About The Sinners And The Scandals, He Said, But That's Normal, Because 'a Tree That Falls Makes More Noise Than A Forest That Grows.

We Forget To Remain Focused On The Things That Really Matter.

Ask Yourselves This Question: How Often Is Jesus Inside And Knocking At The Door To Be Let Out, To Come Out? And We Do Not Let Him Out Because Of Our Own Need For Security, Because So Often We Are Locked Into Ephemeral Structures That Serve Solely To Make Us Slaves And Not Free Children Of God.

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