‘If God can visit us, even when our hearts seem like a lowly manger, we can truly say: Hope is not dead; hope is alive and it embraces our lives forever!’
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Pope Francis on Epiphany: ‘Let us find God in flesh and bone, in the faces of those we meet each day.’
On the Solemnity of the Epiphany, Pope Francis reminds us that “contemplating God is beautiful, but it is only fruitful if we take a risk, the risk of the service of bringing God to others.”
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Pope Francis: The beauty of Christ crucified is the great paradox of our faith
Pope Francis preaches on Jesus’ love and desires for us at the Way of the Cross at World Youth Day.
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Pope Francis’ Easter Vigil homily 2023: The women at Easter bring the news that will change life and history forever
This is what the Pasch of the Lord accomplishes: it motivates us to move forward, to leave behind our sense of defeat, to roll away the stone of the tombs in which we often imprison our hope, and to look with confidence to the future.
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Read: Pope Francis’ homily for Palm Sunday 2023. ‘The abandoned’ are the ‘Christs of our day.’
“Christ, in his abandonment, stirs us to seek him and to love him and those who are themselves abandoned. For in them we see not only people in need, but Jesus himself, abandoned.”
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Pope Francis: ‘The ashes remind us who we are.’
“The rite of the imposition of ashes serves as the beginning of this return journey. It exhorts us to do two things: to return to the truth about ourselves and to return to God and to our brothers and sisters.”
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‘Mary gives us hope’: the homily of Pope Francis for Jan. 1
On the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God and the 54th World Day of Peace, Pope Francis reminded Christians to “imitate the shepherds: let us learn to see! To understand by seeing with our hearts.”
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Pope Francis: Rediscover the meaning of Christmas in the manger
‘Why is the manger so important? Because it is the sign, and not by chance, of Christ’s coming into this world. It is how he announces his coming.’
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Pope Francis’ homily at the beatification of John Paul I: He lived ‘in the joy of the Gospel.’
Let us pray to John Paul I “to obtain for us ‘the smile of the soul,’ a transparent smile that does not deceive.”
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Pope Francis on Pentecost: ‘The Holy Spirit creates harmony with division.’
“The Holy Spirit wants us to concentrate on the here and now, because the time and place in which we find ourselves are themselves grace-filled.”