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Jesus Tells Us What The 'protocol' Is, On Which We Will Be Judged. It Is The One We Read In Chapter 25 Of Matthew's Gospel: I Was Hungry, I Was Thirsty, I Was In Prison, I Was Sick, I Was Naked And You Helped Me, Clothed Me, Visited Me, Took Care Of Me. Whenever We Do This To One Of Our Brothers, We Do This To Jesus. Caring For Our Neighbor; For Those Who Are Poor, Who Suffer In Body And In Soul, For Those Who Are In Need. This Is The Touchstone.

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Jesus Tells Us What

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Jesus Tells Us What The 'protocol' Is, On Which We Will Be Judged. It Is The One We Read In Chapter 25 Of Matthew's Gospel: I Was Hungry, I Was Thirsty, I Was In Prison, I Was Sick, I Was Naked And You Helped Me, Clothed Me, Visited Me, Took Care Of Me. Whenever We Do This To One Of Our Brothers, We Do This To Jesus. Caring For Our Neighbor; For Those Who Are Poor, Who Suffer In Body And In Soul, For Those Who Are In Need. This Is The Touchstone.

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I Had An Experience Of Knowing The Polish People When I Was A Child, And Where My Father Worked Many Poles Came To Work After The War. They Were Good People, And This Has Stayed In My Heart.

If Someone Is Gay And Is Searching For The Lord And Has Good Will, Then Who Am I To Judge Him? ... The Problem Is Not Having This Tendency, No, We Must Be Brothers And Sisters To One Another. The Problem Is In Making A Lobby Of This Tendency: A Lobby Of Misers, A Lobby Of Politicians, A Lobby Of Masons, So Many Lobbies.

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

Not To Share One’s Goods With The Poor Is To Rob Them And To Deprive Them Of Life. It Is Not Our Goods That We Possess, But Theirs.

Advent Is A Journey Towards Bethlehem. May We Let Ourselves Be Drawn By The Light Of God Made Man.

Everyone Is Called, Everyone Is Sent Out… The Call Of God Can Reach Us On The Assembly Line And In The Office, In The Supermarket And In The Stairwell, I.e., In The Places Of Everyday Life.

Families Will Always Have Their Trials; Be Living Examples Of Love, Forgiveness, And Care

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.

Our Life Must Be Centred On What Is Essential, On Jesus Christ. Everything Else Is Secondary.

I Have Decided To Proclaim For The Whole Church... A Day Of Fasting And Prayer For Peace In Syria, The Middle East, And Throughout The World, And I Also Invite Each Person, Including Our Fellow Christians, Followers Of Other Religions And All Men Of Good Will, To Participate, In Whatever Way They Can, In This Initiative.

The Lord Put It Clearly: You Cannot Serve Two Masters. You Have To Choose Between God And Money.

Wherever There Are Men And Women Who Have Consecrated Their Lives To God, There You Find Joy.

We Just Cannot Worry About Ourselves.

The Person Who Gossips Is A Terrorist Who Drops A Bomb, Destroys, And They Destroy Others.

We Too Can Be Saints In Our Family, In Our Neighborhood, Wherever We Live And Work. Be A Person Who Listens To What People Need, Communicating Not Only To Grieve Or Tell Others About Your Own Problems. Listen In Order To Intercede And Help Out.

At Times We Are Slaves Of Sin. Lord, Come To Free Us!

Let Us Never Yield To Pessimism, To That Bitterness That The Devil Offers Us Every Day.

The World Tells Us To Seek Success, Power And Money; God Tells Us To Seek Humility, Service And Love.

Let's Pray For Whole World That There Be Brotherhood. I Hope This Journey Of The Church We Begin Today Is Fruitful For Evangelization.

Confession Is The Sacrament Of The Tenderness Of God, His Way Of Embracing Us.

At This Time Of Crisis We Cannot Be Concerned Solely With Ourselves, Withdrawing Into Loneliness, Discouragement And A Sense Of Powerlessness In The Face Of Problems. Please Do Not Withdraw Into Yourselves! This Is A Danger: We Shut Ourselves Up In The Parish, With Our Friends, Within The Movement, With The Like-minded... But Do You Know What Happens? When The Church Becomes Closed, She Becomes An Ailing Church, She Falls Ill! That Is A Danger. . . .a Church Closed In On Herself Is The Same, A Sick Church.

It Is Not Possible To Go Backwards. We Must Go Forward. Always Forward.

The Worldwide Financial And Economic Crisis Seems To Highlight Their Distortions And Above All The Gravely Deficient Human Perspective, Which Reduces Man To One Of His Needs Alone, Namely, Consumption. Worse Yet, Human Beings Themselves Are Nowadays Considered As Consumer Goods Which Can Be Used And Thrown Away.

Jesus Spoke In Such A Way That The People Loved The Things Of God. That’s Why They Followed Him.

The Economic Part Is The One That Came Out First Because There Were Some Problems About Which The Press Spoke A Lot.

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