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“He knocks at the door of our heart to find warmth and shelter.”

“He knocks at the door of our heart to find warmth and shelter.”

From the “Urbi et Orbi” Christmas message by Pope Francis, on December 25, 2022: He comes among us in silence and in the dark of night, because the word of God needs no spotlights or loud human voices. He is Himself the Word that gives life its meaning, He is…

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“Freedom is the means, whereas love is the end.”

“Freedom is the means, whereas love is the end.”

(an excerpt from Saint John Paul II’s “Love and Responsibility“) Love consists in a commitment of freedom because, after all, love is self-giving, and to give oneself means precisely to limit one’s freedom on account of the other person. The limitation of one’s own freedom would be something negative and…

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“Pray and work without rest, in order not to grow cold.”

(from a homily by Pope Francis, on June 29, 2020) We need lives that show the miracle of God’s love. Not forcefulness, but forthrightness. Not palaver, but prayer. Not speeches, but service. Do you want a prophetic Church? Then start serving and be quiet. Not theory, but testimony. We are…

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“Love is the motor that makes our hope carry on”

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(from Pope Francis’ general audience on April 12, 2017) But you might ask me, “No, it is a loser’s logic!” It may seem that way, that it is a losing logic, because he who loves loses power. Have you ever thought that? He who loves loses power, he who gives…

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