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

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Lent
 


This is the gift and duty for each one of us during the season of Lent: to listen to Christ, like Mary. To listen to him in his Word, contained in Sacred Scripture. To listen to him in the events of our lives, seeking to decipher in them the messages of Providence. Finally, to listen to him in our brothers and sisters, especially in the lowly and the poor, to whom Jesus himself demands our concrete love. To listen to Christ and obey his voice: this is the principle way, the only way, that leads to the fullness of joy and of love.

 
Angelus Address
St Peter's Square
12 March 2006

 
 
 
Lent
 


In the Palm Sunday procession we join with the crowd of disciples who in festive joy accompany the Lord during his entry into Jerusalem. Like them, we praise the Lord with a loud voice for all the miracles we have seen. Yes, we too have seen and still see today the wonders of Christ: how he brings men and women to renounce the comforts of their lives and devote themselves totally to the service of the suffering; how he gives men and women the courage to oppose violence and deceit, to make room for truth in the world; how, in secret, he persuades men and women to do good to others, to bring about reconciliation where there had been hatred and to create peace where enmity had reigned.

 
Celebration of Palm Sunday
Saint Peter's Square
22nd World Youth Day
Sunday, 1st April 2007

 
 
 
Lent
 


In this Lenten Season we often contemplate Our Lady, who on Calvary sealed the "yes" she pronounced at Nazareth. United to Christ, Witness of the Father's love, Mary lived martyrdom of the soul. Let us call on her intercession with confidence, so that the Church, faithful to her mission, may offer to the whole world a courageous witness of God's love.

 
ANGELUS
Fifth Sunday of Lent,
25 March 2007

 
 
 
Lent
 


May the Virgin Mary, who after sharing in the sorrowful Passion of her divine Son experienced the joy of his Resurrection, accompany us during this Lent towards the Mystery of Easter, the supreme Revelation of God's Love.

 
General Audience
Ash Wednesday
21 February 2007

 
 
 
Lent
 


This is the gift and duty for each one of us during the season of Lent: to listen to Christ, like Mary. To listen to him in his Word, contained in Sacred Scripture. To listen to him in the events of our lives, seeking to decipher in them the messages of Providence. Finally, to listen to him in our brothers and sisters, especially in the lowly and the poor, to whom Jesus himself demands our concrete love. To listen to Christ and obey his voice: this is the principle way, the only way that leads to the fullness of joy and of love.

 
Angelus Address
12 March 2006

 
 
 
Lent
 


On the Lenten journey...we are accompanied by the certainty that God never abandons us and that his love is a source of joy and peace.

 
Homily
25 March 2007

 
 
 
Lent
 


In the Lenten journey…we are exhorted to come out of ourselves in order to open ourselves, in trustful abandonment, to the merciful embrace of the Father.

 
Message for Lent
2007

 
 
 
Lent
 


Through fasting and praying we allow Christ to come and satisfy the deepest hunger that we experience in the depths of our being: the hunger and thirst for God.

 
Message for Lent, 2009

 

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