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Christ defeated sin and death by the total giving of Himself. For this reason…we must embrace and adore the Lord's cross, make it our own, accept its weight as Simon of Cyrene did, in order to participate in the only thing that can redeem all of humanity.
Become ever more worthy of the cross and you will never be ashamed of this supreme sign of love.
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Audience with Youth from Madrid
Rome
6 April 2009
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Suffering unites us to Christ and to our brothers and sisters, and expresses the fullness of love, the source and supreme trial of which is Christ's own Cross.
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Address
Rrecently-appointed bishops
Castelgandolfo
20 September 2008
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The Sign of the Cross is the epitome of our faith and by making it with an attentive heart, we enter into the full mystery of our salvation.
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General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
17 September 2008
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Christ does not conquer through the sword, but through the Cross. He wins by conquering hatred. He wins through the force of his greater love. The Cross of Christ expresses his “no” to violence. And in this way, it is God’s victory sign, which announces Jesus’ new way. The one who suffered was stronger than the ones who exercised power. In his self-giving on the Cross, Christ conquered violence.
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Homily
Holy Thursday
St Peter's Basilica
1st April 2010
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The Cross is an expression of what love means:
only those who lose themselves find themselves.
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Homily
5th World Youth Day
St Peter's Square
28 March 2010
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With his Cross, Jesus opened God's door, the door between God and men. Now it is open. But the Lord also knocks with his Cross from the other side: he knocks at the door of the world, at the doors of our hearts, so many of which are so frequently closed to God. And he says to us something like this: if the proof that God gives you of his existence in creation does not succeed in opening you to him, if the words of Scripture and the Church's message leave you indifferent, then look at me - the God who let himself suffer for you, who personally suffers with you - and open yourself to me, your Lord and your God.
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Homily
Palm Sunday
St Peter's Square
1st April 2007
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God is love, and his love is the secret of our happiness. So it is that there is no other way to enter into this mystery of love than to lose ourselves, to give ourselves: the way of the Cross.
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General Audience
Ash Wednesday
21 February 2007
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"It is finished" (19: 30). Through Jesus' love the Cross becomes metabasis, a transformation from being human into being a sharer in God's glory. He involves us all in this transformation, drawing us into the transforming power of his love to the point that, in our being with him, our life becomes a "passage", a transformation. Thus, we receive redemption, becoming sharers in eternal love, a condition for which we strive throughout our life.
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Homily
Mass of the Lord's Supper
Basilica of St John Lateran
20 March 2008
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