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Consumerism Has Led Us To Become Used To An Excess And Daily Waste Of Food, To Which, At Times, We Are No Longer Able To Give A Just Value, Which Goes Well Beyond Mere Economic Parameters. We Should All Remember, However, That Throwing Food Away Is Like Stealing From The Tables Of The The Poor, The Hungry!

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Consumerism Has Led Us

Pope Francis

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Consumerism Has Led Us To Become Used To An Excess And Daily Waste Of Food, To Which, At Times, We Are No Longer Able To Give A Just Value, Which Goes Well Beyond Mere Economic Parameters. We Should All Remember, However, That Throwing Food Away Is Like Stealing From The Tables Of The The Poor, The Hungry!

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A Beautiful Homily, A Genuine Sermon, Must Begin With The First Proclamation, With The Proclamation Of Salvation. There Is Nothing More Solid, Deep And Sure Than This Proclamation.

There Is No Worse Material Poverty Than One That Does Not Allow For Earning One’s Bread And Deprives One Of The Dignity Of Work. Youth Unemployment, Informality, And The Lack Of Labor Rights Are Not Inevitable; They Are The Result Of A Previous Social Option, Of An Economic System That Puts Profit Above Man; If The Profit Is Economic, To Put It Above Humanity Or Above Man, Is The Effect Of A Disposable Culture That Considers The Human Being In Himself As A Consumer Good, Which Can Be Used And Then Discarded.

Dignity Of Work

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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 Believe That In Pretty Much Every Religion There Is Always A Small Group Of Fundamentalists.

Every Conflict Is Emblematic Of The Throwaway Culture.

The World Tells Us To Seek Success, Power And Money; God Tells Us To Seek Humility, Service And Love.

Faith Is Not A Light Which Scatters All Our Darkness, But A Lamp Which Guides Our Steps In The Night And Suffices For The Journey. To Those Who Suffer, God Does Not Provide Arguments Which Explain Everything; Rather, His Response Is That Of An Accompanying Presence, A History Of Goodness Which Touches Every Story Of Suffering And Opens Up A Ray Of Light.

Holy Week Is A Good Occasion To Go To Confession And To Take Up The Right Path Again.

These Two Criteria Are Like The Pillars Of True Love: Deeds, And The Gift Of Self.

Do I Guard Myself, My Heart, My Feelings, My Thoughts? Do I Guard The Treasure Of Grace? Do I Guard The Presence Of The Holy Spirit In Me? Or Do I Let Go, Feeling Secure, Believing That All Is Going Well?

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.

I Had A Long Conversation With The Imam, The Grand Imam Of The Al-azhar University, And I Know How They Think... They Seek Peace, Encounter.

Today Is The World Day Of Prayer For The Care Of Creation. Let Us Work And Pray.

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