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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.

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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.

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Wretched Are Those Who Are Vindictive And Spiteful.

A Person Who Is Not Convinced, Enthusiastic, Certain And In Love, Will Convince Nobody.

Grace Is Not Part Of Consciousness; It Is The Amount Of Light In Our Souls, Not Knowledge Nor Reason.

Today Too, Amid So Much Darkness, We Need To See The Light Of Hope And To Be Men And Women Who Bring Hope To Others. To Protect Creation, To Protect Every Man And Every Woman, To Look Upon Them With Tenderness And Love, Is To Open Up A Horizon Of Hope; It Is To Let A Shaft Of Light Break Through The Heavy Clouds; It Is To Bring The Warmth Of Hope!

The Media Only Writes About The Sinners And The Scandals, He Said, But That's Normal, Because 'a Tree That Falls Makes More Noise Than A Forest That Grows.

If The Christian Is A Restorationist, A Legalist, If He Wants Everything Clear And Safe, Then He Will Find Nothing. Tradition And Memory Of The Past Must Help Us To Have The Courage To Open Up New Areas To God.

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

Injustice And Oppression

Holiness Doesn't Mean Doing Extraordinary Things, But Doing Ordinary Things With Love And Faith.

Almost Without Being Aware Of It, We End Up Being Incapable Of Feeling Compassion At The Outcry Of The Poor, Weeping For Other People's Pain, And Feeling A Need To Help Them, As Though All This Were Someone Else's Responsibility And Not Our Own.

A Man Who Does Not Know How To Have A Relationship Of Friendship With A Woman - I'm Not Talking About Misogynists, Who Are Sick - Well, He's A Man Who Is Missing Something.

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