A famous saying attributed to Abba Anthony the Great, the first great father of monasticism, goes like this: “Remove temptations and no-one will be saved.”
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Pope Francis: ‘The devil is a seducer’
One must never dialogue, brothers and sisters, with the devil. Never!
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Pope Francis: Presents and parties aren’t the source of Christmas joy. Jesus is.
Pope Francis tells us that the nativity is like a living Gospel, enabling us to experience the “great joy” that comes from the mystery of Christ.
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Pope Francis: Christians cannot be closed off. Jesus calls us to be open.
The phrase “Ephphatha,” meaning “be open,” signifies the need for believers to be receptive to God’s message and to serve others. Christians are encouraged to embody openness.
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Pope Francis: Imitate the creativity and simplicity of the Holy Spirit
In his weekly audience, Pope Francis explained that as we bear witness to the Resurrected Christ, we are summoned to emulate the creativity and simplicity that characterize the Spirit’s actions.
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Pope Francis to COP28: ‘Destruction of the environment is an offense against God’
In a speech to the COP28 meeting of world leaders in Dubai read by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis decried the ‘inordinate greed that has made the environment the object of unbridled exploitation.’
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Pope Francis: Christians don’t need to live in the past. The Gospel is alive for us today.
We can easily be discouraged during these difficult times in our world. Yet, Saint Paul reminds us that in God’s plan, we are compelled to express the joy of the Gospel in our daily lives.
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Pope Francis: God’s call is not for just a privileged few
“We cannot say that we are privileged compared to others—no,” Pope Francis said at today’s general audience. “The calling is for a service. And God chooses one in order to love everyone, to reach everyone.”
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Bishop Flores to U.S. bishops: The synod offers us ‘Catholic way’ to grapple with real-world problems
The conversations of the synod are for the sake of building up an ethos, the conversatio of communion and confidence in the accessibility of Christ as He manifests himself in the church.
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Pope Francis: We either proclaim Jesus with joy—or we do not proclaim him at all
“Either we proclaim Jesus with joy, or we do not proclaim him, because another way of proclaiming him is not capable of bringing the true reality of Jesus,” Pope Francis said in his weekly audience.