Selected quotes of Pope Benedict XVI offered daily for prayer and reflection….

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The Father
 


‘You, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name’. Our God is a father prepared to forgive repentant sinners and to welcome those who trust in his mercy.

 
Homily
Basilica of San Lorenzo
Rome
30 November 2008

 
 
 
The Father
 


Jesus came to reveal to us the true Face of the Father and if we now use the word "God", it is no longer a reality known only from afar. We know the Face of God: it is that of the Son, who came to bring the heavenly realities closer to us and to the earth.

 
General Audience
3 January 2007

 
 
 
The Father
 


Jesus has revealed to us that man is essentially a “son”, a creature who lives in the relationship with God the Father, and in this way in relationship with all his brothers and sisters. Man is not fulfilled in an absolute autonomy, deceiving himself that he is God but, on the contrary, by recognizing himself as a child, an open creature, reaching out to God and to his brethren in whose faces he discovers the image of their common Father.

 
Homily
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
18 May 2008

 

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