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To be truly alive is to be transformed from within, open to the energy of God’s love. In accepting the power of the Holy Spirit you too can transform your families, communities and nations. Set free the gifts! Let wisdom, courage, awe and reverence be the marks of greatness!
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Evening Vigil
WYD, Australia
20 July 2008
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“I myself will look after and tend my sheep” (Ez 34:11).
God personally looks after me, after us, after all mankind. I am not abandoned, adrift in the universe and in a society which leaves me ever more lost and bewildered. God looks after me. He is not a distant God, for whom my life is worthless… It is fine and consoling to know that there is someone who loves me and looks after me. But it is far more important that there is a God who knows me, loves me and is concerned about me.
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Homily
Solemnity, Sacred Heart of Jesus
St. Peter's Square
11 June 2010
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God rejects no one. And the Church rejects no one. Yet in his great love, God challenges all of us to change and to become more perfect.
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Address
Meeting with the Young People
Great Port of Valletta, Malta
18 April 2010
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How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel! ... My heart recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst’ (Hosea 11:8-9).
God's passionate love for his people—for humanity—is at the same time a forgiving love. It is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice. Here Christians can see a dim prefigurement of the mystery of the Cross: so great is God's love for man that by becoming man he follows him even into death, and so reconciles justice and love.
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Encyclical Letter
'Deus Caritas Est'
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God loves every one of us with a depth and intensity that we can hardly begin to imagine. And he knows us intimately, he knows all our strengths and all our faults. Because he loves us so much, he wants to purify us of our faults and build up our virtues so that we can have life in abundance. When he challenges us because something in our lives is displeasing to him, he is not rejecting us, but he is asking us to change and become more perfect.
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Address
Meeting with the Young People
Great Port of Valletta, Malta
18 April 2010
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God never fails in his loyalty, and even if we move away and get lost, he continues to follow us with his love, forgive our mistakes and speak to our inner consciousness, to call us back to him.
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Angelus Address
St Peter's Square
14 March 2010
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"The love of Christ impels us" (II Cor. 5: 14).
The charity that moved the Father to send his Son into the world, and moved the Son to offer himself for us even to death on the Cross, that same charity has been poured out by the Holy Spirit in the hearts of believers.
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Angelus Address
St. Peter's Squre
22 October 2006
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St. Augustine said that God thirsts after our thirst for him, that is, he desires to be desired. The further the human being distances himself from God, the more closely God pursues him with his merciful love.
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Homily
Third Sunday of Lent
24 February 2008
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