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A daily message from Pope Francis
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
“Education is one of the most effective ways of making our world and history more human. Education is above all a matter of love and responsibility handed down from one generation to another.”
Pope Francis
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2021
“Starting a dialogue often happens not through words but silence, by not insisting, by patiently beginning anew to listen to others, hearing about their struggles and what they carry inside. The healing of the heart begins with listening. Listening. This is what restores the heart.” Pope Francis
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
“We often think that evil comes mainly from the outside: from other people’s conduct, from those who think badly of us, from society. How often we blame others, society, the world, for everything that happens to us! It is always the fault of “others”: it is the fault of people, of those who govern, of misfortune, and so on… And we spend time assigning blame; but spending time blaming others is wasting time. We become angry, bitter and keep God away from our heart… One cannot be truly religious in complaining: complaining poisons, it leads you to anger, to resentment and to sadness, that of the heart, which closes the door to God.”
Pope Francis
MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2021
“Hypocrites are people who pretend, flatter and deceive because they live with a mask over their faces and do not have the courage to face the truth. For this reason, they are not capable of truly loving: a hypocrite does not know how to love. They limit themselves to living out of egoism and do not have the strength to show their hearts transparently.” Pope Francis
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2021
“God made Himself flesh and blood; He lowered Himself to the point of becoming a man like us. He humbled Himself to the extent of burdening Himself with our sufferings and sin.” Pope Francis
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2021
“May Mary Most Holy, who bore her Son Jesus in the flesh and joined herself to His sacrifice, help us to always bear witness to our faith in our real lives.”
Pope Francis
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2021
“Indeed, Jesus affirms that the true bread of salvation, which transmits eternal life, is His very flesh; that to enter into communion with God, before observing the laws or satisfying religious precepts, it is necessary to live out a real and concrete relationship with Him… This means that one must not pursue God in dreams and in images of grandeur and power, but He must be recognised in the humanity of Jesus and, as a consequence, in that of the brothers and sisters we meet on the path of life.” Pope Francis
MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2021
“May these tranquil summer days be for you and your families a special time of grace and spiritual renewal. God bless you!”
Pope Francis
SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2021
“How do I live? In the fear that if I do not do this, I will go to hell? Or do I live with that hope too, with that joy of the gratuitousness of salvation in Jesus Christ? It is a good question. And also the second: do I disregard the Commandments? No. I observe them, but not as absolutes, because I know that it is Jesus Christ who justifies me.”
Pope Francis
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 2021
“Vaccination is a simple but profound way of promoting the common good and caring for each other, especially the most vulnerable. I pray to God that everyone may contribute their own small grain of sand, their own small gesture of love; no matter how small, love is always great. Contribute with these small gestures for a better future.” Pope Francis