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Looking at Mary, we recognize the loftiness and beauty of God's plan for everyone: to become holy and immaculate in love (cf. Eph 1: 4), in the image of our Creator."
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Angelus Address
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
St Peter's Square
8th December 2007
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For God to dwell in us, we need to listen to him; we must allow his Word to challenge us every day, meditating upon it in our hearts after the example of Mary (cf. Lk 2:51). In this way we grow in friendship with him, we learn to understand what he expects from us and we are encouraged to make him known to others.
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Homily
Bicentennial Park
Silao, Guanajuato
Mexico
25 March 2012
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Mary lived her life to the full, her daily duties, her role as a mother, but she knew how to reserve an inner space to reflect on the word and will of God, on what was occurring within her and on the mysteries of the life of her Son.
In our time we are taken up with so many activities and duties, worries and problems: we often tend to fill all of the spaces of the day, without leaving a moment to pause and reflect and to nourish our spiritual life, contact with God.
Mary teaches us how necessary it is to find in our busy day, moments for silent recollection, to meditate on what the Lord wants to teach us, on how he is present and active in the world and in our life: to be able to stop for a moment and meditate.
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General Audience
Castel Gandolfo
17 August 2011
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As the first and perfect disciple of her Son Mary has always showed, as she accompanies the Church's journey, particular concern for those who suffer.
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Homily
St. Peter's Basilica
World Day of the Sick
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
11 February 2010
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Throughout Mary’s trials she remained faithful to her promise, sustained by the Spirit of fortitude. And she was gloriously rewarded. We too, must remain faithful to the “yes” that we have given to the Lord’s offer of friendship. We know that he will never abandon us. We know that he will always sustain us through the gifts of the Spirit.
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Angelus Address
Randwick Racecourse
Sydney Australia
20 July 2008
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As we turn our gaze to Mary, "Mother of holy joy", let us ask her to help us deepen the reasons for our faith, so that, renewed in the spirit and with a joyful heart, we may respond to the eternal and boundless love of God.
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Homily
Parish of 'Dio Padre Misericordioso'
Rome
26 March 2006
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(The earth has yielded its fruits" (Ps 67: 7).
Mary is the offshoot from which grew the tree of redemption and of the redeemed. God has not failed, as it might have seemed formerly at the beginning of history with Adam and Eve or during the period of the Babylonian Exile, and as it seemed anew in Mary's time when Israel had become a people with no importance in an occupied region and with very few recognizable signs of its holiness.
God did not fail. In the humility of the house in Nazareth lived holy Israel, the pure remnant. God saved and saves his people. From the felled tree trunk Israel's history shone out anew, becoming a living force that guides and pervades the world. Mary is holy Israel: she says "yes" to the Lord, she puts herself totally at his disposal and thus becomes the living temple of God.
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Homily
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
8 December 2005
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The Virgin Mary’s maternal love disarms all pride; it renders man capable of seeing himself as he is, and it inspires in him the desire to be converted so as to give glory to God.
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Angelus Address
Prairie, Lourdes
14 September 2008
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