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Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests.

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.
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Love makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.
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The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out..If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is not important : They are Christians. The blood is the same: It is the blood which confesses Christ.
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There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.
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The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money.
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Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.
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You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples to whom you belong. . . . [W]e have to follow Christ along the concrete path of our daily lives so that he can transform us.
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The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.
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The Lord always grants more than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings you into his Kingdom!
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Do good: we will meet one another there.
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Beware of getting too comfortable! When we are comfortable, it’s easy to forget other people.
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We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.
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May the deepest spiritual values of the Filipino people continue to find expression in your efforts to provide your fellow citizens with an integral human development. In this way, each person will be able to fulfill his or her potential, and thus contribute wisely and well to the future of this country.
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I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.
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Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more
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But always think this: do not be afraid of failure. Do not be afraid of falling. In the art of walking, what is important is not avoiding the fall but not remaining fallen.
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How beautiful it is to see that young people are 'street preachers,' joyfully bringing Jesus to every street, every town square and every corner of the earth!
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Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised.
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We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you.' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attracting, not proselytizing.
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Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.
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