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The birth of Christ helps us to become aware of the value of human life, the life of every human being, from the first instant to natural death.
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Angelus Address
4th Sunday of Advent
24 December 2006
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Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.
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Homily
Midnight Mass
Christmas
24 December 2011
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God has opened for us the treasures of his profound silence and, with his Word, has communicated himself to us. In Bethlehem the everlasting today of God brushes against our fleeting time that receives from it orientation and light for the journey through life.
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Vespers
St Peter's Basilica
16 December 2010
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The Baby that we see in the manger is God himself who made himself man, to show us how much he desires our good, how much he loves us: God has become one of us, that he might make himself close to each of us, that he might conquer evil, liberate us from sin, give us hope, that he might tell us that we are never alone. We can always look to Him without fear, calling Him Father, sure that in every moment, in every situation of life, even the most difficult ones, He never forgets us. May we say ever more often: Yes, God himself takes care of me, he loves me, Jesus was born for me, too; I must trust in him always.
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Christmas Lunch
with Rome's poor
Paul VI Audience Hall
December 26 2010
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Our human time is loaded with evils, sufferings and dramas of every kind - from those caused by man's own wickedness to those deriving from adverse natural events - but it now contains, definitively and unchangeably, the joyful and liberating novelty of Christ the Saviour.
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Homily at Vespers
Solemnity, Mary Mother of God
Vatican Basilica
31 December 2010
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It is necessary to liberate this Christmas period from an overly moralistic and sentimental wrapping. The celebration of Christmas does not only present us with examples to imitate, such as the humility and poverty of the Lord, his benevolence and love for mankind; rather it is an invitation to let oneself be transformed totally by the One who entered our flesh.
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General Audience
Paul VI Hall
5 January 2011
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“To us a child is born, to us a son is given. The government will be upon his shoulder” (Is 9:6). …It is God’s eternal Word that unites humanity with divinity. To this child belong those titles of honor which Isaiah’s coronation song attributes to him: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Is 9:6). Yes, this king does not need counselors drawn from the wise of this world. He bears in himself God’s wisdom and God’s counsel. In the weakness of infancy, he is the mighty God and he shows us God’s own might in contrast to the self-asserting powers of this world.
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Homily,
Mass of the Night
Nativity of the Lord
St Peter's Basilica
25 December 2010
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“To us a child is born, to us a son is given. The government will be upon his shoulder” (Is 9:6). …It is God’s eternal Word that unites humanity with divinity. To this child belong those titles of honor which Isaiah’s coronation song attributes to him: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Is 9:6). Yes, this king does not need counselors drawn from the wise of this world. He bears in himself God’s wisdom and God’s counsel. In the weakness of infancy, he is the mighty God and he shows us God’s own might in contrast to the self-asserting powers of this world.
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Homily
Mass at Night
Nativity of the Lord
St. Peter's Basilica
25 December 2010
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