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An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and it embraces human life, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.
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Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.
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From the way children are treated society can be judged.
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Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.
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Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!
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The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.
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Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
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We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).
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The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.
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I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
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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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Total openness to serving others is our hallmark, it alone is our title of honour!
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Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not let him out because of our own need for security, because so often we are locked into ephemeral structures that serve solely to make us slaves and not free children of God.
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Whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms.
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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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Jesus is not a figure from the past: He continues now and always to light the way for us.
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In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!
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Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.
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Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.
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