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In Our Ecclesiastical Region There Are Priests Who Don't Baptize The Children Of Single Mothers Because They Weren't Conceived In The Sanctity Of Marriage. These Are Today's Hypocrites. Those Who Clericalize The Church. Those Who Separate The People Of God From Salvation.

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In Our Ecclesiastical Region

Pope Francis

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In Our Ecclesiastical Region There Are Priests Who Don't Baptize The Children Of Single Mothers Because They Weren't Conceived In The Sanctity Of Marriage. These Are Today's Hypocrites. Those Who Clericalize The Church. Those Who Separate The People Of God From Salvation.

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Christmas Celebrations Are Often Full Of Sound. It Would Be Good For Us To Make Room For Silence, To Hear The Voice Of Love.

If We, Each Doing Our Own Part, If We Do Good To Others, If We Meet There, Doing Good, And We Go Slowly, Gently, Little By Little, We Will Make That Culture Of Encounter: We Need That So Much. We Must Meet One Another Doing Good.

It Is The Paraclete Spirit, The "comforter", Who Grants Us The Courage To Take To The Streets Of The World, Bringing The Gospel! The Holy Spirit Makes Us Look To The Horizon And Drive Us To The Very Outskirts Of Existence In Order To Proclaim Life In Jesus Christ. Let Us Ask Ourselves: Do We Tend To Stay Closed In On Ourselves, On Our Group, Or Do We Let The Holy Spirit Open Us To Mission?

Finding God In All Things Is Not An 'empirical Eureka.' When We Desire To Encounter God, We Would Like To Verify Him Immediately By An Empirical Method. But You Cannot Meet God This Way...a Contemplative Attitude Is Necessary: It Is The Feeling That You Are Moving Along The Good Path Of Understanding And Affection Toward Things And Situations. Profound Peace, Spiritual Consolation, Love Of God, And Love Of All Things In God-this Is The Sign That You Are On This Right Path.

Listen To Jesus And Follow Him. That's The Message Of The Transfiguration.

Transfiguration

Some People Continue To Defend Trickle-down Theories Which Assume That Economic Growth, Encouraged By A Free Market, Will Inevitably Succeed In Bringing About Greater Justice And Inclusiveness In The World. This Opinion, Which Has Never Been Confirmed By The Facts, Expresses A Crude And Naive Trust In The Goodness Of Those Wielding Economic Power And In The Sacralized Workings Of The Prevailing Economic System.

Economic Inequality

The Great Biblical Tradition Enjoins On All Peoples The Duty To Hear The Voice Of The Poor. It Bids Us Break The Bonds Of Injustice And Oppression Which Give Rise To Glaring, And Indeed Scandalous, Social Inequalities.

We Just Cannot Worry About Ourselves.

Just As We Need The Courage To Be Happy, We Also Need The Courage To Live Simply.

Lord Jesus, Make Us Capable Of Loving As You Love.

Because Always, Even In The Darkest Moments, In Moments Of Sin, In Moments Of Weakness, In Moments Of Failure, I Have Seen Jesus, And I Trusted Him... He Has Not Left Me Alone.

I Invite All Christians, Everywhere, At This Very Moment, To A Renewed Personal Encounter With Jesus Christ, Or At Least An Openness To Letting Him Encounter Them.

Take Care Of Brothers And Sisters Who Are Weaker ... The Elderly, The Sick, The Hungry, The Homeless And Strangers, Because We Will Be Judged On This.

Despite Our Sins, We Can Say With Peter: Lord, You Know Everything, You Know That I Love You.

I Distrust A Charity That Costs Nothing And Does Not Hurt.

Suffering Is A Call To Conversion: It Reminds Us Of Our Frailty And Vulnerability.

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