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The true disciple serves not himself or the "public", but his Lord, simply and generously: "and your Father who sees in secret will reward you" (Mt 6:4,6,18). Our witness, then, will always be more effective the less we seek our own glory and the more we realize that the reward of the just is God himself: being one with him here below on the journey of faith, and, at life’s end, in the luminous peace of seeing him face to face for ever (cf. 1 Cor 13:12).
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Homily
St. Peter's Basilica
13 February 2013
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A Christian follows the Lord when he accepts lovingly his own cross, which in the world's eyes seems a defeat and to “lose life”, knowing that he is not carrying it alone but with Jesus, sharing his same journey of self-giving.
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Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
28 August 2011
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If we follow God in all that we think and do, then we draw closer together, we gain freedom and thus true fraternity is born.
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Homily
Munich, Germany
10 September 2006
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There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know him and to speak to others of our friendship with him.
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Homily
Mass of Inauguration
14 April 2005
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The Lord challenges us to move beyond the boundaries of our own world and to bring the Gospel to the world of others, so that it pervades everything and hence the world is opened up for God’s kingdom.
We are reminded that even God stepped outside himself, he set his glory aside in order to seek us, in order to bring us his light and his love. We want to follow the God who sets out in this way, we want to move beyond the inertia of self-centredness, so that he himself can enter our world.
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Homily
Solemnity, Sts. Peter and Paul
Vatican Basilica
29 June 2011
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Jesus says to us: “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Lk 9:23). In other words he tells us that in order to attain, with him, the light and joy of the Resurrection, the victory of life, of love and of goodness, we too must take up our daily cross
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General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
9 March 2011
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When Jesus announces openly for the first time that he must suffer and be killed, Peter himself opposes the prospect of suffering and death. Jesus must then rebuke him sternly, to make him understand that it is not enough to believe that he is God but that, impelled by charity, it is necessary to follow him on the same path, that of the Cross (cf. Mk 8: 31-33). Jesus did not come to teach us philosophy but to show us a way, indeed the way that leads to life.
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Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
13 September 2009
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"Have this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus". To learn to feel as Jesus felt; to conform our way of thinking, deciding and acting to the sentiments of Jesus; we will take up this path if we look to conform our sentiments to those of Jesus. Let us take up the right path.
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General Audience
26 October 2005
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