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The joy arising from the knowledge that God loves us is a central element of Christian experience. In a world often characterized by sadness and anguish, this is an important testimony of the beauty and reliability of the faith. Be joyful witnesses of Christ!
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Angelus Address
Palm Sunday
1 April 2012
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We must open ourselves to the certainty that God is omnipotent love. He is the only One capable of offering us the chance to live a full life and to experience true joy.
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Homily
Vatican Basilica
6 January 2011
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True joy is to be found in sharing, in giving, in loving with the same gratuitousness as God, which breaks all the logic of human selfishness.
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Lunch with Rome's poor
Paul VI Audience Hall
December 26 2010
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If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true happiness and joy.
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Address
World Youth Day Prayer Vigil
Madrid, Spain
20th August 2011
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The love of God, the merciful Father… is the true secret of Christian joy.
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Homily
Parish of 'Dio Padre Misericordioso'
Rome
26 March 2006
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Joy, kindness and goodness grow only if the heavens above us are opened. The days aren’t always sunny... sometimes we must cross through dark valleys. Even then, though, we can remain joyous and human -- but only if heaven is open for us, only if we can be strengthened in the certainty that God loves us in full, that God is good , and through this, in the certainty that it’s good to be human.
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Remarks to:
Group from Bavaria
Castel Gandolfo
30 July 2011
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The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation.
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Address to the Roman Curia
Christmas, 2008
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Perhaps we, at times, see God as a kind of rival. Perhaps we too are blind to His signs, deaf to His words, because we believe that He puts limitations on our lives and does not allow us to dispose of our existence as we wish. When we see God in this way we end up feeling dissatisfied and discontented, because we do not allow ourselves to be guided by the One Who is the foundation of all things, We must remove all idea of rivalry from our minds and hearts, the idea that giving space to God is a limit to the self. We must open ourselves to the certainty that God is omnipotent love which takes away nothing, which threatens nothing. Quite the contrary, He is the only One capable of offering us the chance to live a full life and to experience true joy.
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Homily
Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
Vatican Basilica
6 January 2011
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