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If God, In The Christmas Mystery, Reveals Himself Not As One Who Remains On High And Dominates The Universe, But As The One Who Bends Down, Descends To The Little And Poor Earth, It Means That, To Be Like Him, We Should Not Put Ourselves Above Others, But Indeed Lower Ourselves, Place Ourselves At The Service Of Others, Become Small With The Small And Poor With The Poor. It Is Regrettable To See A Christian Who Does Not Want To Lower Himself, Who Does Not Want To Serve. A Christian Who Struts About Is Ugly: This Is Not Christian, It Is Pagan.

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If God, In The Christmas Mystery, Reveals Himself Not As One Who Remains On High And Dominates The Universe, But As The One Who Bends Down, Descends To The Little And Poor Earth, It Means That, To Be Like Him, We Should Not Put Ourselves Above Others, But Indeed Lower Ourselves, Place Ourselves At The Service Of Others, Become Small With The Small And Poor With The Poor. It Is Regrettable To See A Christian Who Does Not Want To Lower Himself, Who Does Not Want To Serve. A Christian Who Struts About Is Ugly: This Is Not Christian, It Is Pagan.

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Let Us Encourage The Generosity Which Is Typical Of The Young And Help Them To Work Actively In Building A Better World. Youth Do Not Solely Need Material Things. Above All, They Need To Have Those Non-material Values Which Are The Spiritual Heart Of A People ... Spirituality, Generosity, Solidarity, Perseverance, Fraternity, And Joy.

A Person Who Thinks Only About Building Walls, Wherever They May Be - And Not Building Bridges - Is Not Christian.

The Pope Doesn't Get Mixed Up In Italian Politics.

We Must Recover The Whole Sense Of Gift, Of Gratuitousness, Of Solidarity. Rampant Capitalism Has Taught The Logic Of Profit At All Costs, Of Giving To Get, Of Exploitation Without Looking At The Person... And We See The Results In The Crisis We Are Experiencing! This Home Is A Place That Teaches Charity, A "school" Of Charity, Which Instructs Me To Go Encounter Every Person, Not For Profit, But For Love.

Let Us Never Forget That Authentic Power Is Service, Which Has Its Radiant Culmination On The Cross.

Another Very Interesting Chapter Is The Education Of Children: The Victims Of Problems Of The Family Are The Children. The Children. Even Of Problems That Neither Husband Nor Wife Have A Say In. For Example, The Needs Of A Job. When The Dad Doesn't Have Free Time To Speak To His Children, When The Mother Doesn't Have Time To Speak With Her Children.

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

Let Us Pray For All Good And Faithful Priests Who Dedicate Themselves To Their People With Generosity And Unknown Sacrifices.

Being Christian Without The Church Doesn't Make Sense. That's Why The Great Paul Vi, Said That The Most Absurd Dichotomy Is Loving Christ Without The Church. To Listen To Christ, But Not The Church. To Be With Christ, But Stay At The Margins Of The Church. It's Not Possible. It's An Absurd Dichotomy.

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 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.

If Anyone Feels Offended By My Words, I Would Respond That I Speak Them With Affection And With The Best Of Intentions, Quite Apart From Any Personal Interest Or Political Ideology. My Words Are Not Those Of A Foe Or An Opponent. I Am Interested Only In Helping Those Who Are In Thrall To An Individualistic, Indifferent And Self-centred Mentality To Be Freed From Those Unworthy Chains And To Attain A Way Of Living And Thinking Which Is More Humane, Noble And Fruitful, And Which Will Bring Dignity To Their Presence On This Earth.

The First Reform Must Be The Attitude. The Ministers Of The Gospel Must Be People Who Can Warm The Hearts Of The People, Who Walk Through The Dark Night With Them, Who Know How To Dialogue And To Descend Themselves Into Their People's Night, Into The Darkness, But Without Getting Lost. The People Of God Want Pastors, Not Clergy Acting Like Bureaucrats Or Government Officials.

When Money, Instead Of Man, Is At The Center Of The System, When Money Becomes An Idol, Men And Women Are Reduced To Simple Instruments Of A Social And Economic System, Which Is Characterized, Better Yet Dominated, By Profound Inequalities. So We Discard Whatever Is Not Useful To This Logic; It Is This Attitude That Discards Children And Older People, And Is Now Affecting The Young.

All Walls Fall. Today, Tomorrow Or In 100 Years, They Will Fall. It's Not A Solution. The Wall Isn't A Solution. In This Moment, Europe Is In Difficult, It's True. We Have To Be Intelligent, And Whoever Comes...that Migrant Flow. It's Not Easy To Find Solutions, But With Dialogue Between Nations They Should Be Found. Walls Are Never Solutions. But Bridges Are, Always, Always.

We Are All Missionary Disciples

The Church's Challenge Is Staying Close To The People, Close To The People Of The United States, Not Being A Detached Church From The People But Close To Them, Close, Close, And This Is Something That The Church In The United States Has Understood And Understood Well.

We All Have In Our Hearts Some Areas Of Unbelief. Let Us Say To The Lord: I Believe! Help My Unbelief.

Sometimes We Are Tempted To Be That Kind Of Christian Who Keeps The Lord’s Wounds At Arm’s Length. Yet Jesus Wants Us To Touch Human Misery, To Touch The Suffering Flesh Of Others. He Hopes That We Will Stop Looking For Those Personal Or Communal Niches Which Shelter Us From The Maelstrom Of Human Misfortune And Instead Enter Into The Reality Of Other People’s Lives And Know The Power Of Tenderness. Whenever We Do So, Our Lives Become Wonderfully Complicated And We Experience Intensely What It Is To Be A People, To Be Part Of A People.

How Many Of Us, Myself Included, Have Lost Our Bearings; We Are No Longer Attentive To The World In Which We Live; We Don’t Care; We Don’t Protect What God Created For Everyone, And We End Up Unable Even To Care For One Another.

Economic Inequality

May The Deepest Spiritual Values Of The Filipino People Continue To Find Expression In Your Efforts To Provide Your Fellow Citizens With An Integral Human Development. In This Way, Each Person Will Be Able To Fulfill His Or Her Potential, And Thus Contribute Wisely And Well To The Future Of This Country.

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