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Jesus Speaks In The Silence Of The Mystery Of The Eucharist And Reminds Us Each Time That Following Him Means Going Out Of Ourselves And Making Our Lives Not Something We 'possess,' But A Gift To Him And To Others.

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Jesus Speaks In The Silence Of The Mystery Of The Eucharist And Reminds Us Each Time That Following Him Means Going Out Of Ourselves And Making Our Lives Not Something We 'possess,' But A Gift To Him And To Others.

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Romantic Relationship

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For Her Part, The Church Always Works For The Integral Development Of Every Person. In This Sense, She Reiterates That The Common Good Should Not Be Simply An Extra, Simply A Conceptual Scheme Of Inferior Quality Tacked Onto Political Programmes. The Church Encourages Those In Power To Be Truly At The Service Of The Common Good Of Their Peoples.

While All Too Many People Live In Dire Poverty, Others Are Caught Up In Materialism And Lifestyles Which Are Destructive Of Family Life And The Most Basic Demands Of Christian Morality.

Jesus Is God But He Humbled Himself To Walk With Us. He Is Our Friend, Our Brother.

This Is Christian Hope, That The Future Is In God's Hands.

Human Trafficking Is A Crime Against Humanity. We Must Unite Our Efforts To Free The Victims And Stop This Increasingly Aggressive Crime Which Threatens Not Only Individuals But The Basic Values Of Society.

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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.

Children Are To Be Welcomed, Cherished, Protected.

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.

Where There Is Calumny, There Is Satan Himself.

True Love Does Not Pay Attention To The Evil It Suffers. It Rejoices In Doing Good.

Let Us All Remember This: One Cannot Proclaim The Gospel Of Jesus Without The Tangible Witness Of One's Life.

Trade Unions Have Been An Essential Force For Social Change, Without Which A Semblance Of A Decent And Humane Society Is Impossible Under Capitalism.

Following Jesus Means Taking Up One's Own Cross To Accompany Him On His Path, An Uncomfortable Path That Is Not One Of Success Or Earthly Glory, But Which Leads To True Freedom, The Freedom From Selfishness And Sin.

I Wish Everyone A Wonderful World Cup, Played In A Spirit Of True Fraternity.

They Are Our Future, And We Must Have A Dialogue. This Dialogue Between The Past And The Future Is Important. Because Of This I Underline So Much The Relationship Between The Youth And Grandparents. They Must Speak With.

I Am Always Wary Of Decisions Made Hastily. I Am Always Wary Of The First Decision, That Is, The First Thing That Comes To My Mind If I Have To Make A Decision. This Is Usually The Wrong Thing. I Have To Wait And Assess, Looking Deep Into Myself, Taking The Necessary Time.

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Such Self-denial 'may Appear Demanding,' But It Will Allow You, So To Speak, To Be And To Breathe Within The Heart Of The Church.

Jesus Christ Conferred Power Upon Peter, But What Sort Of Power Was It? Jesus’ Three Questions To Peter About Love Are Followed By Three Commands: Feed My Lambs, Feed My Sheep. Let Us Never Forget That Authentic Power Is Service, And That The Pope Too, When Exercising Power, Must Enter Ever More Fully Into That Service Which Has Its Radiant Culmination On The Cross.

We Cannot Become Starched Christians, Too Polite, Who Speak Of Theology Calmly Over Tea. We Have To Become Courageous Christians And Seek Out Those (who Need Help Most).

We Are In Front Of A Global Scandal Of Around One Billion - One Billion People Who Still Suffer From Hunger Today. We Cannot Look The Other Way And Pretend This Does Not Exist. The Food Available In The World Is Enough To Feed Everyone.

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

We Have So Many Priests Who Have Gone Half Way … It’s Sad That They Did Not Manage To Go The Whole Way; They Have Something Of The Employee In Them, Something Of The Bureaucrat In Them And This Is Not Good For The Church. Please Be Careful You Don’t Fall Into This! You Are Becoming Pastors In The Image Of Jesus, The Good Pastor. Your Aim Is To Resemble Him And Act On Behalf Of Him Amidst His Flock, Letting His Sheep Graze.

Missionaries Never Give Up On Their Dream Of Peace, Even When They Experience Difficulties And Persecution, Which Makes Their Presence Strongly Felt Today.

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