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At the moment of deep suffering....no insurance policy will be able to protect us. The only valid insurance in those moments, is the one that comes to us from the Lord, who assures us: 'Do not fear, I am always with you.' We can fall, but in the end, we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands.
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Homily
Parish of Santa Maria Consolatrice
Rome
18 December 2005
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At times we would like to say to Jesus: Lord, your yoke is far from light. Indeed, it is tremendously heavy in this world. But then looking at the One who bore everything - who tried out on himself obedience, weakness, suffering, all the darkness, then these complaints of ours fade. His yoke is that of loving with him. And the more we love him and with him become loving people, the lighter becomes his seemingly burdensome yoke.
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Homily
Chrism Mass
St Peter's Basilica
5 April 2007
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I ask you not to lose hope. It is in the communion of the Church that we encounter the person of Jesus Christ, who was himself a victim of injustice and sin. Like you, he still bears the wounds of his own unjust suffering. He understands the depths of your pain and its enduring effect upon your lives and your relationships, including your relationship with the Church. I know some of you find it difficult even to enter the doors of a church after all that has occurred. Yet Christ’s own wounds, transformed by his redemptive sufferings, are the very means by which the power of evil is broken and we are reborn to life and hope. I believe deeply in the healing power of his self-sacrificing love – even in the darkest and most hopeless situations – to bring liberation and the promise of a new beginning.
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PASTORAL LETTER
To the Catholics of Ireland
Victims of Sexual Abuse
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In times and situations of difficulty, recall those words of the Letter to the Hebrews: 'Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame....so that you may not grow weary or lose heart.'
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Letter to the Spanish Bishops
Holy Chalice Chapel
Valencia Cathedral, Spain
10 July 2006
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Christ imparts his salvation by means of the Sacraments, and especially in the case of those suffering from sickness or disability, by means of the grace of the Sacrament of the Sick. For each individual, suffering is always something alien. It can never be tamed. That is why it is hard to bear, and harder still - as certain great witnesses of Christ's holiness have done - to welcome it as a significant element in our vocation.
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Homily
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
Lourdes, France
15 September 2008
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Christ is not a healer in the manner of the world. In order to heal us, he does not remain outside the suffering that is experienced; He eases it by coming to dwell within the one stricken by illness, to bear it and live it with him. Christ's presence comes to break the isolation which pain induces.
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Homily
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
Lourdes, France
15 September 2008
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He who took upon himself our afflictions, is well acquainted with the mystery of human suffering and manifests his loving presence in those who suffer. They in their turn, united to the passion of Christ, share closely in his work of redemption.
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Homily at Vespers
Cathedral of Aosta
Italy
24 July 2009
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It is important to remain constant and faithful in our relationship with God, especially in moments of aridity, difficulty and suffering. Only if we are seized by the love of Christ will we be able to face adversity, as Paul did, in the conviction that we can do all things through him who gives us strength.
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General Audience
Paul VI Hall
Vatican City
13 June 2012
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