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Let Us Not Grow Tired Of Knocking At God's Door. Let Us Go To The Heart Of God Through Mary, Our Whole Life, Every Day, Knocking At The Door Of God's Heart! Mary Prays - Prays Together With The Community Of Disciples, And Teaches Us To Have Full Faith In God, In His Mercy. This Is The Power Of Prayer!

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Let Us Not Grow Tired Of Knocking At God's Door. Let Us Go To The Heart Of God Through Mary, Our Whole Life, Every Day, Knocking At The Door Of God's Heart! Mary Prays - Prays Together With The Community Of Disciples, And Teaches Us To Have Full Faith In God, In His Mercy. This Is The Power Of Prayer!

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When Exhaling This Air, We Announced Jesus Christ Risen By The Same Spirit. No One Can Live Without Breathing. It Is The Same For The Christian: Without Praise And Mission There Is Not Christian Life. And With Praise, Worship. We Rarely Speak About Worship. What Do We Do When We Pray? We Ask Things Of God, We Give Thanks. But Worshipping And Adoring God Is Part Of Breathing - Praise And Worship.

As Christians, Our Duty Is To Pray For Them And Ask The Lord To Give Them The Grace Of Penance, So That They Don't Die With A Corrupt Heart, Because Otherwise The Dogs Of Hell Will Take Their Blood.

Let Us Pray For Peace In Africa, Especially In The Central African Republic And In South Sudan.

Auschwitz Cries Out With The Pain Of Immense Suffering And Pleads For A Future Of Respect, Peace And Encounter Among Peoples.

The Obsession With Economic Profit And Technical Efficiency Puts The Human Rhythms Of Life At Risk.

When One Lives Attached To Money, Pride Or Power, It Is Impossible To Be Truly Happy.

True Charity Requires Courage: Let Us Overcome The Fear Of Getting Our Hands Dirty So As To Help Those In Need.

A Senate Vote On Gay Marriage Is A Destructive Pretension Against The Plan Of God

Christians Are Those Who Let God Clothe Them With Goodness And Mercy, With Christ, So As To Become, Like Christ, Servants Of God And Others.

I Do Not Know What Might Be The Most Fitting Description.... I Am A Sinner. This Is The Most Accurate Definition. It Is Not A Figure Of Speech, A Literary Genre. I Am A Sinner. And This Is What I Said When They Asked Me If I Would Accept My Election As Pontiff: I Am A Sinner, But I Trust In The Infinite Mercy And Patience Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, And I Accept In A Spirit Of Penance.

The Moral Problem Of Abortion Is Of A Pre Religious Nature Because The Genetic Code Is Written In A Person At The Moment Of Conception. A Human Being Is There. I Separate The Topic Of Abortion From Any Specifically Religious Notions. It Is A Scientific Problem. Not To Allow The Further Development Of A Being Which Already Has All The Genetic Code Of A Human Being Is Not Ethical. The Right To Life Is The First Among Human Rights. To Abort A Child Is To Kill Someone Who Cannot Defend Himself.

If Globalization Seeks To Bring All Of Us Together, But To Do So Respecting Each Person, Each Individual Person's Peculiarity, That Globalization Is Good And Makes Us Good And Grow And Leads To Peace.

The Church Needs You, Your Enthusiasm, Your Creativity And The Joy That Is So Characteristic Of You.

The Key Phrase Used By The Synod, Which I'll Take Up Again, Is 'integrate' In The Life Of The Church The Wounded Families, Remarried Families, Etc. But Of This One Mustn't Forget The Children In The Middle. They Are The First Victims, Both In The Wounds, And In The Conditions Of Poverty, Of Work.

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 Laity Are Called To Become A Leaven Of Christian Living Within Society.

Christian Living

Giving Primacy To God Means Having The Courage To Say ‘no’ To Evil, ‘no’ To Violence, ‘no’ To Oppression, To Live A Life In Service Of Others And Which Fosters Lawfulness And The Common Good. When A Person Discovers God, The True Treasure, He Abandons A Selfish Lifestyle And Seeks To Share With Others The Charity Which Comes From God. He Who Becomes A Friend Of God, Loves His Brothers And Sisters, Commits Himself To Safeguarding Their Life And Their Health, And Also To Respecting The Environment And Nature.

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