If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“My dear young friends, I want to invite you to "dare to love". Do not desire anything less for your life than… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to say 'yes' to Jesus: to find your joy in doing His will — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement. Let Christ… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In the month of October, the universal Church highlights her missionary vocation. Guided by the Holy Spirit she knows she is called… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To the extent that we nourish ourselves on Christ and are in love with him, we feel within us the incentive to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The rediscovery of the value of one's own Baptism is at the root of every Christian's missionary commitment, because as we see… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The rediscovery of the value of one's baptism is the basis of the missionary commitment of every Christian, because we see in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Joseph Ratzinger never developed his own theological system. As a theologian he took on what was there, discerned its essentials, situated it in relation… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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