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When The Lord Wants To Give Us A Mission, Wants To Give Us A Task, He Prepares Us. He Prepares Us To Do It Well...what Is Important Is The Whole Journey By Which We Arrive At The Mission The Lord Entrusts To Us...when The Lord Gives A Mission, He Always Has Us Enter Into A Process, A Process Of Purification, A Process Of Discernment, A Process Of Obedience, A Process Of Prayer.

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When The Lord Wants

Pope Francis

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When The Lord Wants To Give Us A Mission, Wants To Give Us A Task, He Prepares Us. He Prepares Us To Do It Well...what Is Important Is The Whole Journey By Which We Arrive At The Mission The Lord Entrusts To Us...when The Lord Gives A Mission, He Always Has Us Enter Into A Process, A Process Of Purification, A Process Of Discernment, A Process Of Obedience, A Process Of Prayer.

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Let Jesus Preach To You, And And Let Jesus Heal You. We Are All Wounded. Everyone.

The Root Of This Possibility Of Doing Good - That We All Have - Is In Creation.

These Are Roots Of All Evil, Hatred And Greed, For Money, For The Construction And For The Sale Of Weapons. This Should Make Us All Think, Who Is Behind It All?

Do Not Be Afraid To Go Forth And Announce The Risen Christ.

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.

Things Have A Price And Can Be For Sale. But People Have A Dignity That Is Priceless And Worth Far More Than Things.

We Too Need To Protect, Guide, And Encourage Our Young People, Helping Them To Build A Society Worthy Of Their Great Spiritual And Cultural Heritage. Specifically, We Need To See Each Child As A Gift To Be Welcomed, Cherished, And Protected. And We Need To Care For Our Young People, Not Allowing Them To Be Robbed Of Hope And Condemned To Life On The Streets.

Breathing Is Made Up Of Two Stages: Inhaling, The Intake Of Air, And Exhaling, The Letting Out Of Air. The Spiritual Life Is Fed, Nourished, By Prayer And Is Expressed Outwardly Through Mission: Inhaling And Exhaling. When We Inhale, By Prayer, We Receive The Fresh Air Of The Holy Spirit.

Gay Marriage Will Destroy The Family

In This Year Of Faith, Let Us Remember That Faith Is Not Something We Possess, But Something We Share. Every Christian Is An Apostle.

Today, There Are Those Who Say That Marriage Is Out Of Fashion... They Say That It Is Not Worth Making A Life-long Commitment, Making A Definitive Decision, ‘for Ever’, Because We Do Not Know What Tomorrow Will Bring. I Ask You, Instead, To Be Revolutionaries, I Ask You To Swim Against The Tide; Yes, I Am Asking You To Rebel Against This Culture That Sees Everything As Temporary And That Ultimately Believes You Are Incapable Of Responsibility, That Believes You Are Incapable Of True Love.

There Is So Much Indifference In The Face Of Suffering. May We Overcome Indifference With Concrete Acts Of Charity.

To Live As True Children Of God Means To Love Our Neighbour And To Be Close To Those Who Are Lonely And In Difficulty

Charity, Patience And Tenderness Are Very Beautiful Gifts. If You Have Them, You Want To Share Them With Others.

Yet Only When We Come To Understand, In The Light Of The Cross, The Evil We Are Capable Of, And Have Even Been A Part Of, Can We Experience True Remorse And True Repentance.

Dear Friends, Let Us Not Forget The Flesh Of Christ Which Is In The Flesh Of Refugees: Their Flesh Is The Flesh Of Christ. It Is Also Your Task To Direct All The Institutions Working In The Area Of Forced Migration To New Forms Of Co-responsibility. This Phenomenon Is Unfortunately Constantly Spreading. Hence Your Task Is Increasingly Demanding In Order To Promote Tangible Responses Of Closeness, Journeying With People, Taking Into Account The Different Local Backgrounds.

God Always Forgives, Always. But He Asks That I Forgive. If I Don't Forgive, In A Certain Sense I Am Closing The Door To God's Forgiveness.

The Blood Of Our Christian Brothers Is A Witness That Cries Out..if They Are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, It Is Not Important : They Are Christians. The Blood Is The Same: It Is The Blood Which Confesses Christ.

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.

We Become Fully Human When We Become More Than Human, When We Let God Bring Us Beyond Ourselves.

The Pope Doesn't Get Mixed Up In Italian Politics.

Wars Are Always Madness: All Is Lost In War, All Is To Be Gained In Peace.

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