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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.

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When We Give Help

Pope Francis

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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.

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Sometimes We Are Tempted To Be That Kind Of Christian Who Keeps The Lord’s Wounds At Arm’s Length. Yet Jesus Wants Us To Touch Human Misery, To Touch The Suffering Flesh Of Others. He Hopes That We Will Stop Looking For Those Personal Or Communal Niches Which Shelter Us From The Maelstrom Of Human Misfortune And Instead Enter Into The Reality Of Other People’s Lives And Know The Power Of Tenderness. Whenever We Do So, Our Lives Become Wonderfully Complicated And We Experience Intensely What It Is To Be A People, To Be Part Of A People.

Sin, Also For Those Who Don't Have Faith, Exists When One Goes Against One's Conscience. To Listen To And Obey It Means, In Fact, To Decide In Face Of What Is Perceived As Good Or Evil. And On This Decision Pivots The Goodness Or Malice Of Our Action.

If We See Someone Who Needs Help, Do We Stop? There Is So Much Suffering And Poverty, And A Great Need For Good Samaritans.

We Need To Be Creative With Young People. If They Have No Opportunities, They Will Get Into Drugs And Be Vulnerable To Suicide.

God’s Love Is Free. He Asks For Nothing In Return; All He Wants Is For His Love To Be Accepted.

Do I Take The Gospel Message Of Reconciliation And Love Into The Places Where I Live And Work?

You Cannot Be In A Position Of Power And Destroy The Life Of Another Person.

Position Of Power

The First Reform Must Be The Attitude. The Ministers Of The Gospel Must Be People Who Can Warm The Hearts Of The People, Who Walk Through The Dark Night With Them, Who Know How To Dialogue And To Descend Themselves Into Their People's Night, Into The Darkness, But Without Getting Lost. The People Of God Want Pastors, Not Clergy Acting Like Bureaucrats Or Government Officials.

The Philippines Bear Witness To The Youthfulness And Vitality Of The Church.

An Authentic Faith-which Is Never Comfortable Or Completely Personal-always Involves A Deep Desire To Change The World, To Transmit Values, To Leave This Earth Somehow Better Than We Found It.

A Little Bit Of Mercy Makes The World Less Cold And More Just.

God's Image Is The Married Couple, A Man And Women, Together. Not Just The Man. Not Just The Woman. No, Both Of Them. That's God's Image.

If We Live According To The Law "an Eye For An Eye...," We Will Never Escape From The Spiral Of Evil.

It Is Difficult To Judge The Past By The Criteria Of The Present.

...because With Us What Is Highest Must Be At The Service Of Others.

The Family Is Threatened By Growing Efforts On The Part Of Some To Redefine The Very Institution Of Marriage, By Relativism, By The Culture Of The Ephemeral, By A Lack Of Openness To Life. These Realities Are Increasingly Under Attack From Powerful Forces, Which Threaten To Disfigure God’s Plan For Creation.

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.

For This The Gospel Offers Us A Serene Way Forward: Using The Three Languages Of The Mind, Heart And Hands - And To Use Them In Harmony. What You Think, You Must Feel And Put Into Effect. Your Information Comes Down To Your Heart And You Put It Into Practice. Harmoniously. What You Think, You Feel, And You Do. Feel What You Think And Feel What You Do. Do What You Think And What You Feel. The Three Languagesto Think. To Feel. To Do. And All In Harmony.

Legislative Activity Is Always Best Based On Care For The People.

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!

This Is Christian Hope, That The Future Is In God's Hands.

How Many Solutions Are Found To Family Problems If We Take Time To Reflect? If We Think Of A Husband Or Wife And We Dream About Their Good Qualities That They Have? Don’t Ever Lose The Illusion Of When You Were Boyfriend And Girlfriend!

Through Prayer, Charity And Humility Before God, People Receive A Heart Which Is Firm And Merciful, Attentive And Generous, A Heart Which Is Not Closed, Indifferent Or Prey To The Globalization Of Indifference.

The Family Is The Most Important Wealth Of A Nation. May We Endeavor To Defend And Strengthen The Foundation Of Society.

We Must Overcome...all Forms Of Racism. The Problem Of Intolerance Should Be Dealt With As A Whole: Every Time A Minority Is Persecuted And Marginalized...the Good Of The Whole Society Is In Danger.

The Blood Of Our Christian Brothers And Sisters Is A Testimony Which Cries Out To Be Heard By Everyone Who Can Still Distinguish Between Good And Evil.

Integrating In The Church Doesn't Mean Receiving Communion.

Pay Attention, My Young Friends: To Go Against The Current; This Is Good For The Heart, But We Need Courage To Swim Against The Tide. ... We Christians Were Not Chosen By The Lord For Little Things; Push Onwards Toward The Highest Principles. Stake Your Lives On Noble Ideals, My Dear Young People!

One Cannot Proclaim The Gospel Of Jesus Without The Tangible Witness Of One’s Life. Those Who Listen To Us And Observe Us Must Be Able To See In Our Actions What They Hear From Our Lips, And So Give Glory To God!

Every Child Who, Rather Than Being Born, Is Condemned Unjustly To Being Aborted, Bears The Face Of Jesus Christ, Bears The Face Of The Lord, Who Even Before He Was Born, And Then Just After Birth, Experienced The World’s Rejection. And Every Elderly Person…even If He Is Ill Or At The End Of His Days, Bears The Face Of Christ. They Cannot Be Discarded, As The ‘culture Of Waste’ Suggests!

There Is No Worse Material Poverty, I Am Keen To Stress, Than The Poverty Which Prevents People From Earning Their Bread And Deprives Them Of The Dignity Of Work.

Dignity Of Work

The Holy Spirit Truly Transforms Us. With Our Cooperation, He Also Wants To Transform The World We Live In.

We Must Recover The Whole Sense Of Gift, Of Gratuitousness, Of Solidarity. Rampant Capitalism Has Taught The Logic Of Profit At All Costs, Of Giving To Get, Of Exploitation Without Looking At The Person... And We See The Results In The Crisis We Are Experiencing! This Home Is A Place That Teaches Charity, A "school" Of Charity, Which Instructs Me To Go Encounter Every Person, Not For Profit, But For Love.

To Be Wise Use Three Languages: Think Well, Feel Well And Do Well. And To Be Wise Allow Yourselves To Be Surprised By The Love Of God. That Will Guarantee A Good Life.

Every Child That Isn't Born, But Is Unjustly Condemned To Be Aborted, Has The Face Of Jesus Christ, Has The Face Of The Lord.

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