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Virtues
 


Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

 
'Jesus of Nazareth'
p.343

 
 
 
Virtues
 


We ask Christ, to reign in our hearts, making them pure, docile, filled with hope, and courageous in humility.

 
Homily
Expo Bicentenario Park
León, Cuba
25 March 2012

 
 
 
Virtues
 


Christian patience and constancy, are not synonymous with apathy or resignation; rather, they are virtues of those who know that they can and must not build on sand but on the rock; virtues of those who can respect the times and ways of the human condition and therefore avoid clouding the deepest expectations of the mind with utopian or transient hopes that subsequently disappoint.

 
Vespers
St Peter's Basilica
16 December 2010