Each of us is necessary

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

#Solidarity needs subsidiarity. There is no true solidarity without social participation, without the contribution of families, associations, cooperatives, small businesses, and other expressions of society. #GeneralAudience

11:30 am · September 23, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Life is grounded in three fundamental and closely connected relationships: the Relationship with God, with our neighbour and with the earth. #SeasonOfCreation

11:30 am · September 22, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The journey of reconciliation calls for patience and trust. #Peace will not be obtained unless it is hoped for.

11:30 am · September 21, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

We need to pursue a genuine fraternity based on our common origin from God. The desire for #peace lies deep within the human heart, and we should not resign ourselves to seeking anything less than this.

9:30 am · September 21, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

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)

10:49 am · September 20, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

We are called to be instruments of God our Father, so that our planet might be what He dreamed of when he created it and correspond with his plan for peace, beauty and fullness. #SeasonOfCreation

11:30 am · September 19, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Everyone is important in God’s eyes, everyone can transform a part of the world polluted by human voracity into the good reality willed by the Creator. #SeasonOfCreation

11:30 am · September 18, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Today, the nature that surrounds us is no longer admired, but “devoured”. We must return to contemplation; so as not to be distracted by a thousand useless things, we must find silence; for the heart not to become sick, we must be still. #SeasonOfCreation

11:30 am · September 17, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

To contemplate and to care: these are two attitudes that show the way to correct and rebalance our relationship as human beings with creation. #SeasonOfCreation #GeneralAudience vatican.va/content/f…

11:30 am · September 16, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Contemplation, which leads us to an attitude of care, is not a question of looking at nature from the outside, as if we were not immersed in it. But we are inside nature, we are part of nature. #SeasonOfCreation #GeneralAudience

11:00 am · September 16, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

As many spiritual masters have taught us, heaven, earth, sea, and every creature have an iconic capacity or mystical capacity to bring us back to the Creator and to communion with creation. #SeasonOfCreation #GeneralAudience

10:33 am · September 16, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Climate restoration is of utmost importance for the Earth's future. Thus, I invite all nations to adopt more ambitious national targets to reduce emissions. #SeasonOfCreation

9:00 am · September 16, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The Sorrowful Virgin whose pierced heart mourned the death of Jesus now grieves for the sufferings of the crucified poor and for the creatures of this world laid waste by human power. #SeasonOfCreation

11:30 am · September 15, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The revelation of God’s love for us seems madness. Every time that we look at the cross, we find this love. The crucifix is truly the great book of God’s love. #ExaltationOfTheCross

11:30 am · September 14, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

In recent days, a series of fires have devastated the refugee camp of Moria on the Island of Lesbos. I express my solidarity and closeness to all the victims of these dramatic events.

3:01 pm · September 13, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

How much suffering, how many wounds, how many wars could be avoided if forgiveness and mercy were the style of our life! #GospelOfTheDay

11:30 am · September 13, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

In the #GospelOfTheDay (MT 18:21-35), Jesus exhorts us to open ourselves courageously to the strength of forgiveness, because not everything in life can be resolved with justice: there's a need for merciful love.

10:30 am · September 13, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Nature is filled with words of love, but how can we listen to them amid constant noise, and interminable and nerve-wracking distractions? #SeasonOfCreation

11:30 am · September 12, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

As believers, we do not look at the world from without but from within, conscious of the bonds with which the Father has linked us to all beings. #SeasonOfCreation

11:30 am · September 11, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Today, in the tragedy of a #pandemic, in the face of the many false securities that have now crumbled, in the face of so many hopes betrayed, in the sense of abandonment that weighs upon our hearts, Jesus says to each one of us: “Courage, open your heart to my love”.

9:30 am · September 10, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The common good requires everyone’s participation. If everyone contributes his or her part, and if no one is left out, we can regenerate good relationships on the communitarian, national and international level and even in harmony with the environment. #LaudatoSì

12:00 pm · September 9, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

To love everyone, including enemies, is difficult – I would say it is even an art! But an art that can be learned and improved. True love, that makes us fruitful and free, is always expansive and inclusive. This love cares, heals and does good. #GeneralAudience

11:30 am · September 9, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

A virus that does not recognise barriers, borders, or cultural or political distinctions must be faced with a love without barriers, borders or distinctions. #GeneralAudience vatican.va/content/f…

11:00 am · September 9, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The Christian response to the pandemic and to the consequent socio-economic crisis is based on love, above all, love of God who always precedes us (see 1 Jn 4:19). When we welcome this divine love, then we can respond similarly. #GeneralAudience

10:30 am · September 9, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Mary, the Mother who cared for Jesus, cares with maternal affection and pain also for this wounded world.

11:30 am · September 8, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Rather than a problem to be solved, the world is a joyful mystery to be contemplated with gladness and praise. #SeasonOfCreation #LaudatoSì

11:30 am · September 7, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

At times it takes greater love to rehabilitate a brother or sister. In the #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 18:15-20) Jesus invites us to put them in God's hands: only the Father can show a greater love than that of all brothers and sisters put together.

10:30 am · September 6, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Mother Teresa, tireless worker of charity, pray for us, so that our criterion for action might be gratuitous love, offered freely to everyone without distinction of language, culture, race, or religion.

9:30 am · September 5, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

During this #SeasonOfCreation, may we be attentive to the rhythms of creation. The world was made to communicate the glory of God, to help us to discover the Lord of all in its beauty, and to return to Him.

11:30 am · September 4, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

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7:06 am · September 4, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Today we hear the voice of creation admonishing us to return to our rightful place in the natural created order – to remember that we are part of this interconnected web of life, not its masters. #SeasonOfCreation

11:30 am · September 3, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

I invite everyone to join in a universal day of prayer and fasting for Lebanon, on 4 September. I also invite our brothers and sisters of other religious confessions to join in this initiative in whatever way they deem best. w2.vatican.va/conten…

2:55 pm · September 2, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

As a human family we have our common origin in God. We dwell in a common home, the garden-planet where God placed us. But when we forget all this, our social fabric is weakened and the environment deteriorates. #GeneralAudience

11:30 am · September 2, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The current pandemic has highlighted our interdependence: we are all linked to each other, for better or for worse. Therefore, to come out of this crisis better than before, we have to do so together, all of us, in solidarity. #GeneralAudience

10:30 am · September 2, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

A #JubileeForTheEarth is a time to restore the original harmony of creation and to heal strained human relationships. #SeasonOfCreation w2.vatican.va/conten…

11:30 am · September 1, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

A #JubileeForTheEarth is a time to return to God, our loving Creator. We cannot live in harmony with creation if we are not at peace with the Creator who is the source and origin of all things.

11:00 am · September 1, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

A #JubileeForTheEarth is a good time to remember creation’s original vocation to exist as a community of love. We exist only in relationships: with God the Creator, with our brothers and sisters, and with all of God’s creatures within our common home.

10:30 am · September 1, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The #JubileeForTheEarth calls us to think once again of our fellow human beings, especially the poor and the most vulnerable. We are asked to re-appropriate God’s original and loving plan of creation as a common heritage. w2.vatican.va/conten…

10:06 am · September 1, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Today marks the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. From now until October 4th we will celebrate the #JubileeForTheEarth with our Christian brothers and sisters of various Churches and traditions. #SeasonOfCreation

9:30 am · September 1, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

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2:45 pm · August 31, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

I follow with concern the tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean area and I appeal for constructive dialogue and respect for international law to resolve the conflicts that threaten the peace of the peoples of that region.

11:30 am · August 31, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

For Peter and the other disciples – but for us too! - the cross is a 'hindrance', whereas Jesus considers the 'hindrance' escaping the cross, which would mean avoiding the Father's will, the mission that the Father has entrusted to Him for our salvation. #GospelOfTheDay

10:30 am · August 30, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Putting the paschal mystery at the center of our lives means feeling compassion towards the wounds of the crucified Christ present in the many innocent victims of wars and violence, in attacks on life, in environmental disasters, and in poverty.

11:30 am · August 29, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Trust in the Lord and make an effort to enter into his plans, accepting that His salvation can reach us in ways that may be different from what we expect.

11:30 am · August 28, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

We must always have this “holy restlessness” in our hearts, in the search for the true good who is God. Let us help others feel the thirst for God. He gives peace and happiness to our hearts.

11:30 am · August 27, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

If we take care of the goods that the Creator gives us, if we put what we possess in common in such a way that no one would be lacking, then we would truly inspire hope to regenerate a more healthy and equal world. #GeneralAudience

12:30 pm · August 26, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

After the crisis, will we continue with this economic system of social injustice and depreciating care for the environment, of creation, of our common home? Let’s think about this. #GeneralAudience vatican.va/content/f…

11:30 am · August 26, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The root of every spiritual error is believing ourselves to be righteous. To consider ourselves righteous is to leave God, the only righteous one, out in the cold.

11:30 am · August 25, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Today is the tenth anniversary of the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico. I express my solidarity with the families of the victims who today are still asking for truth and justice. The Lord will hold us to account for all of the migrants who have fallen on their journey of Hope.

12:30 pm · August 24, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

To pray is to allow yourself to be looked at by God without illusions, excuses, or justifications. Because from the devil come darkness and lies, from God come light and truth.

11:30 am · August 24, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Let’s not forget the victims of the coronavirus. So much suffering, so many people who lost their lives; and so many volunteers, doctors, nurses, sisters, priests, who also lost their lives. Let us remember the families who have suffered because of this.

1:30 pm · August 23, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

In the #GospelOfTheDay, we hear Jesus’s question directed to each one of us: “And you, who do you say I am?”. It is a question of giving not a theoretical answer, but one that involves faith, that is, life, because faith is life!

10:30 am · August 23, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

God does not love you because you behave well. He loves you, plain and simple. His love is unconditional; it does not depend on you.

12:30 pm · August 22, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

God has no need to be defended by anyone and does not want His name to be used to terrorize people. We call upon everyone to stop using religions to incite hatred, violence, extremism and blind fanaticism. #HumanFraternity

9:30 am · August 22, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Amid so many passing things, the Lord wants to remind us of what will remain forever: love, because “God is love”.

11:30 am · August 21, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

May the Holy Spirit make us grow constantly in knowledge of God so that we might spread His love and His truth in the world.

11:30 am · August 20, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The response to the pandemic is dual: we need to find a cure for this small which has brought the whole world to its knees and we must cure a larger virus, that of social injustice. #GeneralAudience

11:30 am · August 19, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Wealth can force us to build walls. Jesus, instead, invites His disciples to transform goods and riches into relationships, because people are worth more than things, they are more valuable than any riches we possess.

11:30 am · August 18, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

It is not the wealthy who bear fruit in life, but those who build and maintain many friendships through various "riches", namely, through the various gifts God has given them.

11:30 am · August 17, 2020

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

If we present our poverty to the Lord, with an existence marked by tears and suffering, but with the tenacious faith of the Canaanite woman (see Mt 15:21-28) then the Lord cannot but welcome our prayer with His paternal eyes and heart. #GospelOfTheDay

11:00 am · August 16, 2020