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There is an inseparable bond between the cross and the resurrection which Christians must never forget. Without this bond, to exalt the cross would mean to justify suffering and death, seeing them merely as our inevitable fate. For Christians, to exalt the cross means to be united to the totality of God’s unconditional love for mankind. It means making an act of faith!
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Address
Feast of the Exultation of the Cross
Melkite Basilica of St. Paul
Harissa, Lebanon
14 September 2012
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The Psalm says: “the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes” (Ps 118[117]:22-23). Jesus lived this very experience: being rejected by the leaders of his people and rehabilitated by God, placed as the foundational stone of a new temple, of a new people that was to praise the Lord with the fruits of justice.
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Homily
Priestly Ordination
St. Peter's Basilica
29 April 2012
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The sacrifice of the Cross of Christ is the unique and unrepeatable event with which the Father showed his love for us in a luminous way, not only in words but in practice.
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General Audience
Paul VI Hall
Vatican City
20 June 2012
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In Jesus, our every exile is ended. Every tear is dried in the mystery of his cross.
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General Audience
St. Peter's Square
12 October 2011
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On the "hard" Cross, God spoke in Christ the most beautiful, the truest Word of love, which is Jesus in his full and definitive gift of himself. He is God's last word, not in a chronological but in a qualitative sense. He is the universal, absolute Word, but it was spoken through that real man, in that time and in that place, in that "hour".
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Letter to Archbishop of Santiago de Compostella
Occasion of the solemn closure of the
Holy Year of Compostella 2010
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Contemplating Jesus on the Cross we see love in its most radical form. We can begin to imagine the path of love along which we must move.
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cf. 'Deus Caritas Est'
Letter to the Archbishop
of Santiago de Compostella
Occasion of the solemn closure of the Holy Year
of Compostella 2010
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Just as for Christ, carrying the cross was not an option but a mission to be embraced for love, so it is for Christians, too. In our world today, where the forces that divide and destroy seem to dominate, Christ does not cease to offer to all, his clear invitation: anyone who wants to be my disciple must renounce his own selfishness and carry the cross with me.
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Angelus
Castel Gandolfo
31 August 2008
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The Cross - the giving of himself on the part of the Son of God - is the definitive "sign" par excellence, given to us so that we might understand the truth about man and the truth about God: we have all been created and redeemed by a God who sacrificed his only Son out of love.
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Homily
Parish of 'Dio Padre Misericordioso'
Rome
26 March 2006
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