How can I be a good confessor?
A priest needs to think of his own sins, to listen with tenderness, to pray to the Lord for a heart as merciful as his, and not to cast the first stone because he, too, is a sinner who needs to be forgiven….
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“We ask Mary that, as the first disciple, she teach us to remain watching, that she accompany us in patience, strengthen us in hope; we ask that she lead us towards the meeting with her Risen Son; that she free us from fear, so that we can hear the…
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Remember this: the church is apostolic because we pray – our first duty – and because we proclaim the gospel by our life and by our words.
– Pope Francis
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How many of you pray every day to the Holy Spirit? Pray every day to the Holy Spirit that he open our heart to Jesus.
– Pope Francis
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Remember this: the church is apostolic because we pray – our first duty – and because we proclaim the gospel by our life and by our words.
– Pope Francis, The Church of Mercy
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Called by God. “You did not choose me, but I chose you” (John 15:16).
“I appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit be authentic” (John 15:16). It is not creativity, however pastoral it may be, or meetings or planning that ensures our fruitfulness, even…
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Holy fathers first act (after cracking a joke about the Cardinals having to go to the ends of the earth to find a new Bishop of Rome) was to ask us to pray for him before he bestowed his blessing upon us.
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Unity in faith, hope, and charity, unity in the sacraments, the ministry; We are at home, we are in the family, and we are among brothers and sisters. And this is a great gift of God! The church is one for us all.
– Pope Francis
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Let us try asking ourselves: am I open to the action of the Holy Spirit? Do I pray to him to give me a elimination, to make me more sensitive to God’s things? This is a prayer we must pray every day: “Holy Spirit, make my heart open to…
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How many of you pray every day to the Holy Spirit? Pray every day to the Holy Spirit that he open our heart to Jesus.
– Pope Francis, The Church of Mercy
Pope Francis Tweets
Those who reason using human logic, that is, the logic of the merits acquired through one’s own greatness, from being first, find themselves last. Instead, those who humbly entrust themselves to the Father’s mercy, from being last, find themselves first (see Mt 20:1-16)
