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I Would Like To Ask You All To See A Ray Of Hope As Well In The Eyes And Hearts Of Refugees And Of Those Who Have Been Forcibly Displaced. A Hope That Is Expressed In Expectations For The Future, In The Desire For Friendship, In The Wish To Participate In The Host Society Also Through Learning The Language, Access To Employment And The Education Of Children. I Admire The Courage Of Those Who Hope To Be Able Gradually To Resume A Normal Life, Waiting For Joy And Love To Return To Brighten Their Existence. We Can And Must All Nourish This Hope!

-Pope Francis

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I Would Like To Ask You All To See A Ray Of Hope As Well In The Eyes And Hearts Of Refugees And Of Those Who Have Been Forcibly Displaced. A Hope That Is Expressed In Expectations For The Future, In The Desire For Friendship, In The Wish To Participate In The Host Society Also Through Learning The Language, Access To Employment And The Education Of Children. I Admire The Courage Of Those Who Hope To Be Able Gradually To Resume A Normal Life, Waiting For Joy And Love To Return To Brighten Their Existence. We Can And Must All Nourish This Hope!

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It's Important If You Can Do Good With Power. And Jesus Defined Power, True Power Is To Serve, To Do Service, To Do The Most Humble Services, And I Must Still Make Progress On This Path Of Service Because I Feel That I Don't Do Everything I Should Do. That's The Sense I Have Of Power.

Our Life Is Not Given To Us Like An Opera Libretto, In Which All Is Written Down; But It Means Going, Walking, Doing, Searching, Seeing.... We Must Enter Into The Adventure Of The Quest For Meeting God; We Must Let God Search And Encounter Us.

Let Us Ask Mary To Help Us Respond To Violence, To Conflict And To War, With The Power Of Dialogue, Reconciliation And Love. She Is Our Mother: May She Help Us To Find Peace; All Of Us Are Her Children!

The Love Of God Is Not Something Vague Or Generic; The Love Of God Has A Name And A Face: Jesus Christ.

Sometimes Tears Are The Glasses That We Need To See Jesus.

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.

For This The Gospel Offers Us A Serene Way Forward: Using The Three Languages Of The Mind, Heart And Hands - And To Use Them In Harmony. What You Think, You Must Feel And Put Into Effect. Your Information Comes Down To Your Heart And You Put It Into Practice. Harmoniously. What You Think, You Feel, And You Do. Feel What You Think And Feel What You Do. Do What You Think And What You Feel. The Three Languagesto Think. To Feel. To Do. And All In Harmony.

Jesus Came To Save Us: Let Us Not Reject This Marvelous Gift!

We Cannot Keep Ourselves Shut Up In Parishes, In Our Communities, When So Many People Are Waiting For The Gospel!

Whenever I Have A Problem, I Ask The Saint (thérèse Of Lisieux) Not To Solve It, But To Take It Into Her Hands And To Help Me Accept It And I Almost Always Receive A White Rose As A Sign.

We Are All Sinners. But May The Lord Not Let Us Be Hypocrites. Hypocrites Don’t Know The Meaning Of Forgiveness, Joy And The Love Of God.

If We Don't Learn How To Cry, We Can't Be Good Christians. This Is A Challenge. Don't Be Frightened Of Crying.

I Then Greet And Cordially Thank You All, Dear Friends Belonging To Other Religious Traditions; First Of All The Muslims, Who Worship The One God, Living And Merciful, And Call Upon Him In Prayer, And All Of You. I Really Appreciate Your Presence: In It I See A Tangible Sign Of The Will To Grow In Mutual Esteem And Cooperation For The Common Good Of Humanity.

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.

How Many People Worldwide Are Victims Of This Type Of Slavery, In Which The Person Is At The Service Of His Or Her Work, While Work Should Offer A Service To People So They May Have Dignity. I Ask My Brothers And Sisters In Faith And All Men And Women Of Good Will For A Decisive Choice To Combat Trafficking In Persons, Which Includes "slave Labor."

How I Wish Everyone Had Decent Work! It Is Essential For Human Dignity.

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

When We Do Not Profess Jesus Christ, We Profess The Worldliness Of The Devil, A Demonic Worldliness.

Lord, Help Us To Live The Virtue Of Generosity, To Love Without Limits.

Open Your Hearts To The Lord. The Lord Is Waiting For You And The Church Will Welcome You If Your Willingness To Serve Good Is As Clear And Public As Your Choice To Serve Evil Was.

Let Us Build Our Lives Of Faith On The Rock Who Is Christ.

How Powerful Prayer Is! May We Never Lose The Courage To Say: Lord, Give Us Your Peace.

Every Child Who, Rather Than Being Born, Is Condemned Unjustly To Being Aborted, Bears The Face Of Jesus Christ, Bears The Face Of The Lord, Who Even Before He Was Born, And Then Just After Birth, Experienced The World’s Rejection. And Every Elderly Person…even If He Is Ill Or At The End Of His Days, Bears The Face Of Christ. They Cannot Be Discarded, As The ‘culture Of Waste’ Suggests!

May We Always Say Thank You To God, Especially For His Patience And Mercy.

Saying Thank You

I Know Married Catholics In A Second Union Who Go To Church, Who Go To Church Once Or Twice A Year And Say I Want Communion, As If Joining In Communion Were An Award. It's A Work Towards Integration, All Doors Are Open, But We Cannot Say, 'from Here On They Can Have Communion.'

The Real Power Is Love, That Which Empowers Others, That Which Arouses Action, That Which No Chain Is Able To Hold Back, For Even On The Cross Or On The Death Bed One Is Able To Love. One Does Not Need Youthful Beauty, Nor Recognition Or Approval, Nor Money Or Prestige. Let Love Simply Bloom...and It Is Unstoppable.

I Don't Like It When I Hear It Said: 'but These Youth Say Stupid Things!'

Life Is A Precious Gift, But We Realize This Only When We Give It To Others.

I See The Church As A Field Hospital After Battle. It Is Useless To Ask A Seriously Injured Person If He Has High Cholesterol And About The Level Of His Blood Sugars. You Have To Heal His Wounds. Then We Can Talk About Everything Else.

Human Life Must Always Be Defended From Its Beginning In The Womb And Must Be Recognised As A Gift Of God That Guarantees The Future Of Humanity.

We Often Pray To Jesus; We Pray To The Father, Especially In The 'our Father'; But Not Often To The Holy Spirit....pray Often To The Holy Spirit So That He May Help Us, Give Us The Strength, Give Us The Inspiration And Lead Us Forward.

The Gospel Teaches Us What Jesus' Kingdom Requires Of Us... Reminds Us That Closeness And Tenderness Are The Rules Of Life.

Integrating In The Church Doesn't Mean Receiving Communion.

To Be Good Christians You Have To Contemplate The Suffering Humanity Of Jesus. "how Can We Bear Witness? Contemplate Jesus. How Can We Forgive? Contemplate Jesus Suffering. How Can We Not Hate Our Neighbor? Contemplate Jesus Suffering. How Can We Avoid Gossiping About Our Neighbor? Contemplate Jesus Suffering. There Is No Other Way". These Virtues Are The Those Of The Father, Who Forgives Us Always, And Our Lady, Our Mother, Shares In These Virtues Too.

Faith Is Professed With The Lips And With The Heart, Through Words & Through Love.

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