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It Is Also Painful To See That The Struggle Against Hunger And Malnutrition Is Hindered By Market Priorities, The Primacy Of Profit, Which Have Reduced Foodstuffs To A Commodity Like Any Other, Subject To Speculation, Also Of A Financial Nature, The Hungry Remain, At The Street Corner, And Ask To Be Recognized As Citizens, To Receive A Healthy Diet. We Ask For Dignity, Not For Charity.

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It Is Also Painful

Pope Francis

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It Is Also Painful To See That The Struggle Against Hunger And Malnutrition Is Hindered By Market Priorities, The Primacy Of Profit, Which Have Reduced Foodstuffs To A Commodity Like Any Other, Subject To Speculation, Also Of A Financial Nature, The Hungry Remain, At The Street Corner, And Ask To Be Recognized As Citizens, To Receive A Healthy Diet. We Ask For Dignity, Not For Charity.

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How Wonderful It Is To Be Surprised By God’s Call, To Embrace His Word, And To Walk In The Footsteps Of Jesus... Your Life Will Become Richer And More Joyful Each Day!

This Concern For The Poor Is In The Gospel, It Is Within The Tradition Of The Church, It Is Not An Invention Of Communism And It Must Not Be Turned Into An Ideology, As Has Sometimes Happened Before In The Course Of History.

The One Who Listens Attentively To The Word Of God And Truly Prays, Always Asks The Lord: What Is Your Will For Me?

Don't Be Afraid To Go Against The Current, When They Want To Steal Our Hope, When They Propose Rotten Values To Us, Values Like Food That Has Gone Bad-and When Food Has Gone Bad It Makes Us Sick, These Values Make Us Sick. We Have To Go Against The Current! And You, Young People, Be The First: Go Against The Grain And Be Proud Of Going Against The Grain. Go On, Be Brave And Go Against The Current! And Be Proud Of Doing It!

Let Us Not Close Our Hearts, Let Us Not Lose Confidence, Let Us Never Give Up: There Are No Situations Which God Cannot Change, There Is No Sin Which He Cannot Forgive If Only We Open Ourselves To Him.

Without A Solution To The Problems Of The Poor, We Will Not Solve The Problems Of The World. We Need Projects, Mechanisms And Processes To Implement Better Distribution Of Resources, From The Creation Of New Jobs To The Integral Promotion Of Those Who Are Excluded'.

Dear Young People, Put Your Talents At The Service Of The Gospel, With Creativity And Boundless Charity.

Praise Is The 'breath' Which Gives Us Life, Because It Is Intimacy With God, An Intimacy That Grows Through Daily Praise.

By Saying "blessed Are Those Who Mourn", Jesus Does Not Intend To Declare An Unfortunate And Burdensome Condition In Life To Be Happy. Suffering Is Not A Value In Itself, But A Reality That Jesus Teaches Us To Live With The Correct Attitude.

...when Food Is Shared In A Fair Way, With Solidarity, When No One Is Deprived, Every Community Can Meet The Needs Of The Poorest. Human Ecology And Environmental Ecology Walk Together.

I Would Like To Ask You A Question: How Many Of You Pray To The Holy Spirit Every Day? Probably Few, But We Must Satisfy This Desire Of Jesus And Pray Every Day To The Holy Spirit, So That He Opens Our Heart Towards Jesus.

May We Always Care For Our Children, Not Counting The Cost, So That They May Never Believe Themselves To Be Mistakes, But Always Know Their Infinite Worth.

...men And Women Are Sacrificed To The Idols Of Profit And Consumption: It Is The "culture Of Waste." If You Break A Computer It Is A Tragedy, But Poverty, The Needs, The Dramas Of So Many People End Up Becoming The Norm.

Jesus On The Cross Feels The Whole Weight Of The Evil, And With The Force Of God's Love He Conquers It; He Defeats It With His Resurrection. This Is The Good That Jesus Does For Us On The Throne Of The Cross. Christ's Cross, Embraced With Love, Never Leads To Sadness, But To Joy, To The Joy Of Having Been Saved And Of Doing A Little Of What He Did On The Day Of His Death.

A Population That Does Not Take Care Of The Elderly And Of Children And The Young Has No Future, Because It Abuses Both Its Memory And Its Promise.

How Many Kinds Of Moral And Material Poverty We Face Today As A Result Of Denying God And Putting So Many Idols In His Place!

Together With The Social Responsibility Of Businesses, There Is Also The Social Responsibility Of Consumers. Every Person Ought To Have The Awareness That 'purchasing Is Always A Moral-and Not Simply An Economic-act.

There Are The Saints Of Every Day, The 'hidden' Saints, A Sort Of 'middle Class Of Holiness'... To Which We Can All Belong.

Reforming The Social Structures Which Perpetuate Poverty And The Exclusion Of The Poor First Requires A Conversion Of Mind And Heart.

Injustice And Oppression

One Cannot Provoke, One Cannot Insult Other People's Faith, One Cannot Make Fun Of Faith.

Every Christian Can Witness To God In The Workplace, Not Only With Words, But Above All With An Honest Life.

I See Clearly That The Thing The Church Needs Most Today Is The Ability To Heal Wounds And To Warm The Hearts Of The Faithful; It Needs Nearness, Proximity. I See The Church As A Field Hospital After Battle... The Church Sometimes Has Locked Itself Up In Small Things, In Small-minded Rules. The Most Important Thing Is The First Proclamation: Jesus Christ Has Saved You.

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