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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.

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When Exhaling This Air,

Pope Francis

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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.

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Holy Mother Church Teaches Us To End The Year And Also Our Days With An Examination Of Conscience...to Be Grateful And To Ask For Forgiveness.

Filipinos Are Called To Be Outstanding Missionaries Of Faith In Asia

When I Confess A Couple Who Have Kids, A Married Couple, I Ask, 'how Many Children Do You Have?' Some Get Worried And Think The Priest Will Ask Why I Don't Have More. I Would Make A Second Question, 'do You Play With Your Children?' The Majority Say, 'but Father, I Have No Time. I Work All Day.'

I Entrust This Twenty-second World Day Of The Sick To The Intercession Of Mary. I Ask Her To Help The Sick To Bear Their Sufferings In Fellowship With Jesus Christ And To Support All Those Who Care For Them. To All The Ill, And To All The Health-care Workers And Volunteers Who Assist Them, I Cordially Impart My Apostolic Blessing.

It Is Normal For Husband And Wife To Argue: It's Normal. It Always Happens. But My Advice Is This: Never Let The Day End Without Having First Made Peace. Never!

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.

Right Now, We Don't Have A Very Good Relation With Creation.

If I'm Not Mistaken, Sigmund Freud Said That In Every Idealisation There's An Aggression. Depicting The Pope As A Sort Of Superman, A Star, Is Offensive To Me. The Pope Is A Man Who Laughs, Cries, Sleeps Calmly And Has Friends Like Everyone Else. A Normal Person.

There Is An Ideological Colonization We Have To Be Careful Of That Tries To Destroy The Family.

Let Us Never Forget This, He Is Pure Mercy, Let Us Go To Jesus!

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.

The Real Power Is Love, That Which Empowers Others, That Which Arouses Action, That Which No Chain Is Able To Hold Back, For Even On The Cross Or On The Death Bed One Is Able To Love. One Does Not Need Youthful Beauty, Nor Recognition Or Approval, Nor Money Or Prestige. Let Love Simply Bloom...and It Is Unstoppable.

May All People Here Find Inspiration And Strength To Build A Future Of Reconciliation, Justice And Peace For All The Children Of This Beloved Land.

No One Can Remain Insensitive To The Inequalities That Persist In The World ... The Brazilian People, Particularly The Humblest Among You, Can Offer The World A Valuable Lesson In Solidarity, A Word That Is Too Often Forgotten Or Silenced Because It Is Uncomfortable ... I Would Like To Make An Appeal To Those In Possession Of Greater Resources, To Public Authorities And To All People Of Good Will Who Are Working For Social Justice: Never Tire Of Working For A More Just World, Marked By Greater Solidarity

Today Children Are Disposed Of Because There Is No Food Or Because They Are Killed Before Being Born – Children Are Discarded. The Elderly Are Disposed Of, Well, Because They Are Useless, They Do Not Produce, Neither Children Nor The Elderly Produce; Then, With More Or Less Sophisticated Systems They Are Slowly Abandoned And Now, As In This Crisis It Is Necessary To Recover Some Equilibrium, We Are Witnessing A Third Very Painful Discarding –the Discarding Of Young People. Millions Of Young People… Are Discarded From Work, Are Unemployed.

God's Word Is Unpredictable In Its Power... The Church Has To Accept This Unruly Freedom Of The Word, Which Accomplishes What It Wills In Ways That Surpass Our Calculations And Ways Of Thinking.

Cars Are Necessary, But Take A More Humble One. Think Of How Many Children Die Of Hunger And Dedicate The Savings To Them.

Small Yet Strong In The Love Of God, Like Saint Francis Of Assisi, All Of Us, As Christians, Are Called To Watch Over And Protect The Fragile World In Which We Live, And All Its Peoples.

When We Give Help To The Poor, We Are Not Doing The Work Of Aid Agencies 'in A Christian Way'. Those Are Good, It Is A Decent Thing To Do - Aid Work Is Good And Quite Human - But It Is Not Christian Poverty, Which St. Paul Desires Of Us And Preaches To Us. Christian Poverty Is That I Give Of My Own, And Not Of That Which Is Left Over - I Give Even That, Which I Need For Myself, To The Poor Person, Because I Know That He Enriches Me. Why Does The Poor Person Enrich Me? Because Jesus Himself Told Us That He Is In The Poor Person.

As Always, The Ones Who Aren't Saints Make The Most Noise...a Single Tree Falling Makes A Sound, But A Whole Forest Growing Doesn't.

This Generation, And Many Others, Have Been Led To Believe That The Devil Is A Myth, A Figure, An Idea, The Idea Of Evil... But The Devil Exists And We Must Fight Against Him.

Are We Capable Of Bringing The Word Of God Into The Environment In Which We Live? Do We Know How To Speak Of Christ, Of What He Represents For Us, In Our Families, Among The People Who Form Part Of Our Daily Lives? Faith Is Born From Listening, And Is Strengthened By Proclamation.

To Imitate The Hatred And Violence Of Tyrants And Murderers Is The Best Way To Take Their Place.

Congress And The President

The Human Person Is In Danger: This Is Certain, The Human Person Is In Danger Today, Here Is The Urgency Of Human Ecology! And It Is A Serious Danger Because The Cause Of The Problem Is Not Superficial But Profound: It Is Not Just A Matter Of Economics, But Of Ethics And Anthropology.

We Need To 'go Out,' Then, In Order To Experience Our Own Anointing, Its Power And Its Redemptive Efficacy: To The 'outskirts' Where There Is Suffering, Bloodshed, Blindness That Longs For Sight, And Prisoners In Thrall To Many Evil Masters.

We Cannot Give Up In The Face Of Evil. God Is Love And He Has Defeated Evil Through Christ’s Death And Resurrection.

Going Out To Others In Order To Reach The Fringes Of Humanity Does Not Mean Rushing Out Aimlessly Into The World. Often It Is Better Simply To Slow Down, To Put Aside Our Eagerness In Order To See And Listen To Others, To Stop Rushing From One Thing To Another And To Remain With Someone Who Has Faltered Along The Way.

Jesus Teaches Us Another Way: Go Out. Go Out And Share Your Testimony, Go Out And Interact With Your Brothers, Go Out And Share, Go Out And Ask. Become The Word In Body As Well As Spirit.

I Allow Myself To Honor The Man Who Fought In Moments When He Had No Strength To Impose Himself, Until He Managed To Impose Himself. [joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger Deserves Applause.

Politics Is A Noble Activity. We Should Revalue It, Practise It With Vocation And A Dedication That Requires Testimony, Martyrdom, That Is To Die For The Common Good.

We Ask The Risen Jesus, Who Turns Death Into Life, To Change Hatred Into Love, Vengeance Into Forgiveness, War Into Peace. Yes, Christ Is Our Peace, And Through Him To Implore Peace For All The World.

But Please Know, Jesus Never Lets You Down. Please Know That The Love And Tenderness Of Mother Mary Never Lets You Down. And Holding On To Her Mantle And With The Power That Comes From Jesus Love On The Cross, Let Us Move Forward, Always Forward, And Walk Together As Brothers And Sisters In The Lord Forward.

Man Has Slapped Nature In The Face. If You Slap It, It Will Slap You Back.

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