Lord, teach us to move beyond ourselves, and to set out in search of truth. Teach us to go out and see, teach us to listen, not to entertain prejudices or draw hasty conclusions. Teach us to go where no one else will go, to take the time needed to understand, to pay attention to… Read more »
Message for World Communications Day 2021 “Come and See” (Jn 1:46). Communicating by Encountering People Where and as They Are Communication is an encounter Pope Francis is not an expert in communication, but he is an exceptional communicator. As such, the Pope has always imagined communication not as a complex semiotic process, but… Read more »
Today we can recognize that “we fed ourselves on dreams of splendour and grandeur, and ended up consuming distraction, insularity and solitude. We gorged ourselves on networking, and lost the taste of fraternity. We looked for quick and safe results, only to find ourselves overwhelmed by impatience and anxiety. Prisoners of a virtual reality, we… Read more »
At a time when everything seems to disintegrate and lose consistency, it is good for us to appeal to the solidity born of the consciousness that we are responsible for the fragility of others as we strive to build a common future. Fratelli tutti, 115
Let us care for the needs of every man and woman, young and old, with the same fraternal spirit of care and closeness that marked the Good Samaritan. – Fratelli tutti, 79
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Service always looks to their faces, touches their flesh, senses their closeness and even, in some cases, ‘suffers’ that closeness and tries to help them. Service is never ideological, for we do not serve ideas, we serve people. – Fratelli tutti, 115
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They went to the tomb “They have taken the Lord away from the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him!” Peter then went out with the other disciple and went to the tomb. They both ran together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first. He… Read more »
Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, This year, too, Easter seems to have taken us by surprise. Indeed, as a human family, we feel that we are still immersed in the via crucis wrought by the pandemic, populated by hosts of brothers and sisters scourged or killed by the disease, and pierced by the… Read more »
Blessed is the coming Kingdom! They brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks over it, and he mounted it. Many of them spread their cloaks on the road, others spread leaves cut from the fields. Those who went before and those who followed cried out: “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name… Read more »
I will draw all to myself “Now is the judgment of this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all to myself”. Being lifted up suggests glory. The great of this earth are raised on the podium: the great… Read more »
