How is it possible that God uses a sinner, a frail and weak person, to do His will? Everything has been prepared in God’s plan.
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Pope Francis: Those who insist on ‘keeping the truth’ over preaching the Gospel have always threatened the church
This situation in Paul’s letter to the Galatians is not far removed from the experience of many Christians today.
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Pope Francis: In your most painful moments, know that Jesus is praying for you.
With prayer and with life, there remains only to have courage and hope, to to feel the prayer of Jesus strongly and to keep on going.
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Pope Francis: Pray constantly — but don’t lose touch with reality
“A prayer that is alien from life is not healthy. A prayer that alienates itself from the concreteness of life becomes spiritualism, or worse, ritualism.”
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Pope Francis: Don’t forget that Jesus is praying for you — right now and always.
Jesus not only wants us to pray as He prays, but assures us that we can always count on His prayer. We must be aware of this: Jesus prays for me.
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Pope Francis: Why does it seem like God doesn’t answer our prayers sometimes?
’Prayer is not a magic wand: It is a dialogue with the Lord.’
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Read: Pope Francis’ message to the Jesuits and their collaborators for the Ignatian Year
In Pamplona, five hundred years ago, all Ignatius’ worldly dreams were shattered in an instant. The cannonball that wounded him changed the course of his life, and the course of the world.
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Read: Pope Francis on fighting distraction in prayer
Prayer often co-exists with distraction.
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Pope Francis: Prayer can be a struggle. That’s normal. Embrace it.
Christian prayer, like all Christian life, is not a “walk in the park.”
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Pope Francis: In Jesus, there is no conflict between contemplation and action
“There is only one great call in the Gospel, and it is that of following Jesus on the way of love,” Pope Francis said in his weekly Wednesday audience. “In this sense, charity and contemplation are synonymous.”