On this night, brothers and sisters, let us allow the women of the Gospel to lead us by the hand, so that, with them, we may glimpse the first rays of the dawn of God’s life rising in the darkness of our world.
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Read: Pope Francis’ homily for Palm Sunday 2022. ‘God can forgive every sin.’
“In the course of this week, let us cling to the certainty that God can forgive every sin. He forgives everyone. He can bridge every distance, and turn all mourning into dancing.”
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Read: Pope Francis’ homily for the 400th anniversary of St. Ignatius’ and St. Francis Xavier’s canonization
“Dear brothers and sisters, may our holy father Ignatius help us to preserve discernment, our precious legacy, as an ever timely treasure to be poured out on the Church and on the world.”
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Pope Francis at Midnight Mass: God comes into the world in littleness.
This is what we should ask Jesus for at Christmas: the grace of littleness.
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Pope Francis: World Day of the Poor asks us to take a close look at the suffering of those most vulnerable
Pope Francis: The Gospel helps us to interpret “today’s pain and tomorrow’s hope” and calls on us to be ”witnesses of compassion amid widespread disinterest.”
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Pope Francis: Synod calls us to become experts in the art of encounter
Nothing leaves Jesus indifferent; everything is of concern to him. Encountering faces, meeting eyes, sharing each individual’s history.
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Pope Francis: Which of you knows the exact date of your baptism?
Baptism is not merely an external rite. Those who receive it are transformed deep within, in their inmost being, and possess new life.
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Read: Pope Francis on the risen Jesus’ message of mercy
Pope Francis’s homily for the second Sunday of Easter: ’Having received mercy, let us now become merciful.‘
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Read: Pope Francis’ homily for Ash Wednesday
Lent is a humble descent both inwards and towards others. It is about realizing that salvation is not an ascent to glory, but a descent in love.
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Pope Francis: God wants to open hearts, forgive, heal
“Jesus announces to us that God is not an idea or an abstract doctrine, but God is the one who ‘contaminates’ himself with our human woundedness and is not afraid to come into contact with our wounds,” the pope said.