"Love made Christ descend, and love is
also the power by which he ascends. The power by which he
brings us with him." - April 7, 2007
"Jesus knocks at the door of our
hearts and asks to come in not just for one day, but for
forever." - June 07, 2007
"May Mary.. with her maternal care may
she help us to follow Jesus, to know the truth, and to live
in the freedom of love.." - July 1, 2007
"Man is redeemed by love, which renders social life
good and beautiful. Because of this the great hope, that one
that is full and definitive, is guaranteed by God, by God
who is love, who has visited us in Jesus and given his life
to us." - Dec. 2, 2007
"Christian joy thus flows from this certainty: God is
near, he is with me, he is with us, in joy and suffering, in
health and sickness, as friend and faithful husband."- Dec.
12, 2007
"The mission arises from the heart: When one
pauses to pray before a crucifix, looking at
that pierced side, one cannot but feel within
oneself the joy of knowing that one is loved and
the desire to love and to make oneself an
instrument of mercy and reconciliation." -
October 22, 2006
"In
the Gospel, we hear of a poor widow who gave to
the Lord all she had, without keeping anything
for herself. Her generosity is an inspiration to
all of us to give ourselves totally to Christ."
- November 12, 2006
"The victory
of love is possible; what is more... it is certain." -
December 8, 2008
"Suffering
is the path of transformation, and without suffering nothing changes."
"Without in
any sense renouncing personal responsibility, the free human response to
God thus becomes "co-responsibility", responsibility in and with Christ,
through the action of his Holy Spirit; it becomes communion with the One
who makes it possible for us to bear much fruit (cf. Jn 15:5)."
Message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2009
"The Church
lives in people and whoever wants to get to know the Church, to
understand its mystery, must consider the people who have lived and who
continue to live its message, its mystery." April 22, 2009
"Love transforms every thing...Looking upon him and worshiping him,
we say: Yes, love exists, and since it exists, things can change for the
better and we can hope." - June 14, 2009
"The figure of the Child Jesus, the tender infant, brings home to us
God's closeness and his love. We come to understand how precious we
are in his eyes, because it is through him that we in our turn have
become children of God" - September 27, 2009, Prague.
"The Virgin Mary is the Star that guides every journey of holiness.
Her 'Fiat' is a model of perfect adherence to the divine will and
her 'Magnificat' expresses the song of exultation of the Church..."
Angelus, October 11, 2009
"The figure of the Child Jesus, the tender infant, brings home to us
God’s closeness and his love. We come to understand how precious we
are in his eyes, because it is through him that we in our turn have
become children of God.” - September 27, 2009
"Truly, dear
friends, the saints are the best interpreters of the Bible; they,
incarnating in their lives the Word of God, render it more than
attractive, so that it really speaks to us.” -
January 27, 2010
"Love is the
essence of God himself, it is the meaning of creation and history, it is
the light that gives goodness and beauty to every man’s existence.” January 31, 2010
"Thanks to
Christ’s action, we may enter into the "greatest" justice, which is that
of love (cf. Rm 13, 8-10), the justice that recognizes itself in every
case more a debtor than a creditor, because it has received more than
could ever have been expected.” Lenten Message 2010
"By the very
fact that God is love and man is in his image and likeness, we
understand the profound identity of the person, his vocation to love.
Man is made to love; his life is fully realized only if he lives in
love.” Message- March 20, 2010
"Whoever
fixes his gaze upon that pierced Heart that is always open out of love
for us, senses the truth of this invocation: “Lord, you are my only
good”... and is ready to leave everything to follow the Lord” Angelus -
6/27/10
"The Petrine
ministry is a guarantee of freedom in the sense of full adherence to
truth and authentic tradition, so that the People of God may be
preserved from mistakes concerning faith and morals." Homily -
6/29/10
"To
trust God does not mean to see everything clearly according to our
criteria, it does not mean to carry out what we have planned; to trust
God means to empty ourselves of ourselves and to deny ourselves, because
only one who accepts losing himself for God can be 'just' as St. Joseph,
that is, can conform his own will to God's and thus be fulfilled."
Address - 7/5/10
"The
Christian’s project, taken from Jesus’ teaching, is “a heart that sees”
where love is needed and acts appropriately." Angelus 7/11/10
"Without love, even the most
important activities lose value and do not bring joy." Angelus 7/18/10
“We are in no way already complete as sons of God, but we must more and
more become so and be so through our ever deeper communion with Jesus.
Being sons becomes equivalent to following Christ.” from "Jesus of
Nazareth," p. 168, as cited in the Angelus 7/25/10
"We have seen that also today the Church, although she suffers so much,
as we know, is, however, a joyful Church. It is not an aged Church, but
we have seen that the Church is young and that faith creates joy." Words
on seeing film on Pontificate 7/30/10
"Let us not limit ourselves
to admire Mary in her glorious destiny, as a person who is far from us:
no! We are called to see what the Lord, in his love, also willed for us,
for our final destiny: to live through faith in perfect communion of
love with him and thus to truly live.” Homily on the Assumption 8/16/10
"Let us ask him and the Virgin Mary to guide us along the way of
humility to become worthy of the divine recompense." Angelus 7/29/10
"Yes, the Lord wants me, and
he will give me strength. If I listen to him and walk with him, I become
truly myself. What counts is not the fulfilment of my desires, but of
his will. In this way life becomes authentic.” WYD Message 2011
(8/6/2010)
As Bishop of Rome and
Successor of the Apostle Peter, I reaffirm – like my predecessors – that
the Church is committed to praying and working tirelessly to ensure that
hatred will never reign in the hearts of men again." Pilgrimage to Holy
Land - May 11, 2009
"Our eternal destiny is conditioned by our attitude; it is up to us to
follow the road to life that God has shown us, and this is the road of
love, not understood as sentiment but as service to others in the
charity of Christ." Angelus Message 9/26/10
"The Church invites us to
learn from Mary, by praying the Holy Rosary, to contemplate the Father's
plan of love for humanity, to love her as he loves her.” Angelus Message
10/3/10
"It is a prayer of the heart
in which the repetition of the "Hail Mary" orients one's though and
affection toward Christ, and thus one confidently supplicates his Mother
and ours." Angelus Message 10/10/10
"The missionary task is not to bring about revolution in the world but
to transfigure it, drawing power from Jesus Christ." Angelus Message
10/24/10
"The world becomes beautiful and good if one knows this will of God and if
the world corresponds to this will of God, which is the true light,
beauty, love that gives the world meaning." Q- & A- with
Catholic Action Youth 10/30/10
"Do not tire of entrusting yourselves to Christ and of proclaiming him
with your life, in the family and in every environment." General
Audience 11/10/10
"Let us learn from her, the woman of Advent, to live with a new spirit
in our daily gestures, with the sentiment of a profound expectation that
only the coming of God can fulfill." Angelus Message 11/28/10
"As we contemplate in the Mother of God a life totally shaped by the
word, we realize that we too are called to enter into the mystery of
faith, whereby Christ comes to dwell in our lives." Apostolic
Exhortation Verbum Dei as cited in Angelus Message
12/5/10
"Mary, Mother of Christ, tells us that Grace is greater than sin, that
God's mercy is more powerful than evil, and it is able to transform it
into goodness." Angelus Message 12/8/10
"We venerate the legal father of Jesus (Code of Canon Law, 532), because
the new man takes form in him, who looks to the future with confidence
and courage, does not follow his own project, but entrusts himself
totally to the infinite mercy of him who fulfills the prophecies and
inaugurates the season of salvation." Angelus Message 12/19/10
"The Word-become-a-child helps us to understand God's way of acting, so
that we will be capable of allowing ourselves to be transformed
increasingly by his goodness and his infinite mercy." General Audience
12/22/10
"Those who love desire to share with the beloved, they want to be one
with the beloved, and Sacred Scripture shows us the great love story of
God for his people which culminated in Jesus Christ." Christmas Message
12/25/2010
"His humility is determined by a desire to establish full communion with
humanity, by the desire to achieve a true solidarity with man and his
condition." Homily, Baptism of the Lord 1/9/2011
"The events of our time bring very much to light the urgent need for
Christians to proclaim the Gospel with their life.” General Audience,
1/12/11
"To be a sign and instrument in the world of intimate union with God and
of unity among men, we Christians must base our life on these four
cardinal principles: life founded on the faith of the Apostles
transmitted in the living Tradition of the Church, fraternal communion,
the Eucharist and prayer." Angelus Message 1/23/11
"The Beatitudes are a new program of life to liberate us from the false
values of the world and open us to the true goods, present and future."
Angelus Message 1/30/11
"The Lord cares for man in
every situation, shares his suffering and opens his heart to hope." - Angelus Message, 2/6/11
"Christian life does not grow if it is not nourished by participation in
the liturgy, particularly in Sunday's holy Mass, and by personal daily
prayer, by personal contact with God." - General
Audience, 2/9/11
"We are all called to love
unconditionally, as today’s Gospel reminds us, and to place ourselves
generously at the service of our neighbor." - Angelus Message, 2/20/11
"Jesus has demonstrated to us what it means to live with our feet firmly
planted on the earth, attentive to the concrete situations of our
neighbor, and at the same time having our heart always in Heaven,
immersed in God's mercy." - Angelus Message, 2/27/11
"The victorious battle against temptation, the starting point of Jesus’
mission, is an invitation to become aware of our own fragility in order
to accept the Grace that frees from sin and infuses new strength in
Christ." - Lenten Message 2011
"God does not tolerate evil
because he is Love, Justice, Fidelity; and it is precisely because of
this that he does not wish the death of the sinner, but desires that the
sinner covert and live." H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 3/13/11
"Love's omnipotence always respects man's freedom; it knocks at his heart and awaits his answer with patience." H. H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 3/27/11
"When we let our life be illumined by the light of Christ, we experience the joy of being liberated from all that threatens our life’s complete fulfillment." H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 4/3/11
"Here is the novelty that breaks and goes beyond every barrier! Christ destroys the wall of death, in him there dwells the fullness of God, who is life, eternal life." H.H Benedict XVI - Angelus 4/10/11
"We need the humility of a faith which seeks the face of God and trusts in the truth of his love." H.H Benedict XVI - Homily 4/17/11
"All of us, as members of the people of God - bishops, priests, deacons, laity, men and women religious - are making our pilgrim way to the heavenly homeland where the Virgin Mary has preceded us, associated as she was in a unique and perfect way to the mystery of Christ and the Church." H.H. Benedict XVI - Homily 5/1/11
"In [Mary] the luminous face of Christ is reflected. If we follow her with docility, the Virgin will lead us to him." H.H Benedict XVI - Angelus 5/8/11
"Only those who are attentive to the Lord’s voice are able to determine by their own conscience the right choices to act according to God." H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 5/15/11
"Also today the vocation of the Church is evangelization: whether to populations which have not yet been "irrigated" by the living water of the Gospel, or those that, though having ancient Christian roots, are in need of new sap to bear new fruits, and rediscover the beauty and joy of the faith." H.H. Benedict XVI - Regina Coeli 5/29/11
"We have been created and saved by love, and it is only in love, the love which desires and seeks the good of others, that we truly experience the meaning of life and find happiness in living it." H.H. Benedict XVI - Address to Croatian Youth 6/4/11
"The Holy Spirit...gives meaning to prayer, he gives vigor to the evangelizing mission, he makes the hearts of those who hear the glad tidings burn." H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 6/12/11
"God does not force us to believe in him, but he draws us to himself with the truth and goodness of his incarnate Son: love, in fact, always respects freedom." H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 7/10/11
"If we are children of such a great and good Father, we must seek to resemble him!"
H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 7/17/11
"The true quality of our own life and that of society depends on a person’s rightly formed conscience, and on everyone’s capacity to recognize good, separating it from evil, and to try and bring it about patiently to contribute to the cause of justice and peace." H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 7/24/11
"In the Eucharist Jesus also makes us witnesses of God’s compassion towards all our brothers and sisters. The Eucharistic mystery thus gives rise to a service of charity towards neighbour." H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 7/31/11
"Even before we seek the Lord or invoke him, it is he himself who comes to meet us, who lowers Heaven to stretch out his hand to us and raise us to his heights; all he expects of us is that we trust totally in him, that we really take hold of his hand." H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 8/7/11
"The Christian knows that he does not carry the cross alone but with Jesus, sharing in his way of donation." H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus 8/28/11
"Dare to be glowing saints, in whose eyes and hearts the love of Christ beams and who thus bring light to the world." Address 9/24/11
"God gives himself into our hands, he allows himself to be an unfathomable mystery of weakness and manifests his omnipotence in fidelity to a
plan of love." Angelus - 10/02/11
"By her yes to the call of God, she contributed to the manifestation of divine love in the midst of humanity." Address - 11/18/11
"True joy is not a mere passing state of soul, nor something that is achieved by our own power but is a gift; it is born from the encounter with the living person of Jesus." Angelus - 12/11/11
"The high standard of the Christian life consists in loving "as" God loves; with a love that is shown in the total, faithful and fruitful gift of self." Message for Vocations - 12/18/2011
"If God’s merciful love is infinite, he who even sent his only Son as a ransom for our life, [then] our responsibility is likewise great." Angelus 3/18/12
"Each of us is the fruit of love...in the moment that I realize this, my life changes: it becomes a response to this love,
greater than any other, and thus is my freedom fully realized." H.H. Benedict XVI - Regina Coeli, April 29, 2012
"We must learn to believe first of all... in authentic love, the kind that comes from God and unites us to Him" Homily, June 3, 2012
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"The Christian life requires, as it were, the 'martyrdom' of daily fidelity to the Gospel; the courage, that is, to allow Christ to increase in us." H.H. Benedict XVI - General Audience, August 29, 2012
"Charity moves us to be attentive to others and to meet their needs rather than looking for justifications to defend our interests." - H.H. Benedict XVI - Angelus, December 16, 2012
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