Open windows through which the light of God is given to us

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The Lord does not want us to keep thinking about our failings. He wants us to look to Him. In our failings He sees children to help up; in our misery He sees children in need of His merciful love. #DivineMercy

11:30 am · April 10, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The Lord calls us to cooperate in the construction of history, becoming, together with Him, peacemakers and witnesses of hope in a future of salvation and resurrection.

11:30 am · April 9, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

#Easter is the most important feast of our faith because it is the feast of our salvation, the feast of God's love for us.

11:30 am · April 8, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The first way to pray for someone is to speak to God about him or her. If we do this frequently, each day, our hearts are not closed, but open to our brothers and sisters. To pray for others is the first way to love them and it moves us toward concretely drawing near. #Prayer

1:00 pm · April 7, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Everyone needs assistance, especially the most vulnerable. Only together can we build a more just and health world. All of us are called to combat the pandemic and vaccines are an essential tool in this fight. #worldhealthday

10:45 am · April 7, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

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2:45 pm · April 6, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

In these dark months of the #pandemic, let us listen to the Risen Lord as he invites us to begin anew and never lose hope. #Easter

11:30 am · April 6, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Let us never tire of seeking the risen Christ who gives life in abundance to those who meet him. To find Christ means to discover peace in our hearts. #Easter #ReginaCoeli

12:49 pm · April 5, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

There are still too many wars and too much violence in the world! May the Lord, who is our peace, help us to overcome the mindset of war. vatican.va/content/f…

12:30 pm · April 4, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Amid the many hardships we are enduring, let us never forget that we have been healed by the wounds of Christ. In the light of the Risen Lord, our sufferings are now transfigured. Where there was death, now there is life. Where there was mourning, now there is consolation.

10:59 am · April 4, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Dear brother, dear sister: if on this night you are experiencing an hour of darkness, a day that has not yet dawned, a light dimmed or a dream shattered, open your heart with amazement to the message of #Easter: “Do not be afraid, he has risen!”

7:50 pm · April 3, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

This is the third message of #Easter: Jesus, the Risen Lord, loves us without limits and is there at every moment of our lives. He invites us to overcome barriers, banish prejudices and draw near to those around us every day in order to rediscover the grace of everyday life.

7:36 pm · April 3, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

This is the second message of #Easter: faith is not an album of past memories; Jesus is not outdated. He is alive here and now. He walks beside you each day, in every situation you are experiencing, in every trial you have to endure, in your deepest hopes and dreams.

7:33 pm · April 3, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

This is the first #Easter message that I would offer you: it is always possible to begin anew, because there is a new life that God can awaken in us in spite of all our failures. From the rubble of our hearts, God can create a work of art.

7:29 pm · April 3, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

From the cross God reigns with the disarmed and disarming power of love. He continues to amaze our minds and hearts. Let us allow ourselves to be filled with that amazement. Let us gaze upon the Crucified One and say: “Truly, You are the Son of God." You are my God. #GoodFriday

3:30 pm · April 2, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Jesus's cross is God's silent throne. Let us daily contemplate his wounds. In those gashes, we recognize our emptiness, our shortcomings, the wounds of our sin. His wounds were inflicted for our sake, and by those wounds we have been healed. #GoodFriday

10:00 am · April 2, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The cross expresses love, service, unreserved self-giving: it truly is the “tree of life”, of overabundant life. #GoodFriday

7:00 am · April 2, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The Eucharist is Jesus himself who gives himself entirely to us. Nourishing ourselves of Him and abiding in Him through Eucharistic Communion, if we do so with faith, transforms our life, transforms it into a gift to God and to our brothers and sisters. #HolyThursday

1:30 pm · April 1, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The preaching of the Gospel is effective not because of our eloquent words but because of the power of the cross (cf. 1 Cor 1:17). #ChrismMass vatican.va/content/f…

11:30 am · April 1, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The process of conversion always entails the cross. There is no holiness without sacrifice and without a spiritual battle. #HolyWeek

12:30 pm · March 31, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Christ’s Cross is like a beacon that indicates the port to ships that are still afloat on stormy seas. It is the sign of the hope that does not disappoint. And it tells us that not even one tear, not one sigh is lost in God’s saving plan. #Holy Week

11:00 am · March 31, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Along the daily way of the cross, we meet the faces of so many brothers and sisters in difficulty: let us not pass by, let us allow our hearts to be moved with compassion, and let us draw near.

12:30 pm · March 30, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Jesus was lifted up on the cross to descend into our suffering, to plumb the depths of our human experience, to draw near to us and not abandon us in our suffering and our death. To redeem us, to save us. #HolyWeek

11:30 am · March 30, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

During these days, the Church enters into the great meditation of the Lord's Passion. The suffering Christ is present in the person of the poor, the excluded, the sick, the hungry, those who bear the mystery of the cross with Him. #HolyWeek

11:30 am · March 29, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

What is most amazing about the Lord and his Passover? It is the fact that he achieves glory through humiliation. He triumphs by accepting suffering and death, things that we, in our quest for admiration and success, would rather avoid. #PalmSunday

12:30 pm · March 28, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

God is at our side in every affliction, in every fear; no evil, no sin will ever have the final word. God triumphs, but the palm of victory passes through the wood of the cross. For the palm and the cross are inseparable. #PalmSunday vatican.va/content/f…

10:30 am · March 28, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

We are called to recognize that other living beings have a value of their own in God’s eyes: by their mere existence they bless him and give him glory, and indeed, the Lord rejoices in all his works (Ps 104:31). #EarthHour #LaudatoSi’

7:30 pm · March 27, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

“Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?” (Mk 4:35-41). We have realized we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together. #PrayTogether #Covid-19 e.va/statioorbisen

12:30 pm · March 27, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Those who fast make themselves poor with the poor and "accumulate" the treasure of a love received and shared. Understood and practiced thus, fasting helps us love God and our neighbour, because love focuses our attention on others and considers them as one with ourselves. #Lent

12:30 pm · March 26, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

I would like once more to invite everyone to witness to the “Gospel of Life”, to promote and defend life in all its dimensions and at every stage. The Christian is the person who says “yes” to life, who says “yes” to God, the Living One. #EvangeliumVitae

1:30 pm · March 25, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

At this particular moment in history, characterized by many shadows, the figure of Dante, prophet of hope, can help us to advance with serenity and courage on the pilgrimage of life that each of us is called to make. vatican.va/content/f…

11:30 am · March 25, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Mary is not only the bridge joining us to God; she is more. She is the road that God travelled to reach us, and the road that we must travel in order to reach him. #AnnunciationOfTheLord

9:31 am · March 25, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

#Praytogether for the victims and those reported missing because of the terrible fire that broke out in a #Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, which generously welcomed thousands of people. Let us pray for the twenty thousand brothers and sisters, who lost the little they had.

8:00 am · March 25, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Mary was and is present in these days of the pandemic, near to the people who, unfortunately, have concluded their earthly journey all alone, without the comfort of or the closeness of their loved ones. Mary is always there next to us, with her maternal tenderness.

2:30 pm · March 24, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

I learned with sorrow the news of the recent terrorist attacks in #Niger, which caused the deaths of 137 people. Let us #PrayTogether for the victims, for their families and for the entire population.

2:06 pm · March 24, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

I am near the people and the families affected by the major floods that have caused serious damage in New South Wales in Australia, especially those who saw their houses destroyed. #PrayTogether

12:30 pm · March 24, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Today is World #Tuberculosis Day. May this annual event foster a renewed interest in the treatment of this disease and increased solidarity toward those who suffer from it.

12:01 pm · March 24, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

May we not let this time of grace pass in vain, in the foolish illusion that we can control the times and means of our conversion to the Lord! #Lent

1:30 pm · March 23, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

How many times have we told the Lord: “Lord, I will come to you later... I can’t come today. Tomorrow I will begin to pray and do something for others”. In this life, we will always have things to do and excuses to offer, but right now is the time to return to God. #Lent

11:30 am · March 23, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

For us believers, “sister water” is not merchandise: it is a universal symbol and is the source of life and health. Many brothers and sisters have access to too little and perhaps polluted water. It is necessary to assure potable water and hygienic services to all. #WorldWaterDay

12:30 pm · March 22, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

“Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (Jn 12:23-24). Precisely then, in trials and in solitude while the seed is dying, that is the moment in which life blossoms, to bear ripe fruit in due time

11:30 am · March 21, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Every child who a woman expects in her womb is a gift that changes a family’s history: the life of fathers and mothers, grandparents and of brothers and sisters. That child needs to be welcomed, loved and nurtured. Always! #WorldDownSyndromeDay

10:00 am · March 21, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Racism is a virus that quickly mutates and, instead of disappearing, goes into hiding, and lurks in waiting. Instances of racism continue to shame us, for they show that our supposed social progress is not as real or definitive as we think. #FightRacism #FratelliTutti

9:00 am · March 21, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Each day that begins, if welcomed in #prayer, is accompanied by courage, so that the problems we have to face no longer seem to be obstacles to our #happiness, but rather appeals from God, opportunities for our encounter with him. #WorldHappinessDay

12:30 pm · March 20, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

To be a good father means to offer everything, holding nothing back; to protect without suffocating; to pardon without asking anything in return; to wait patiently and trustingly. It means following the example of the "Good Father" who is in heaven. May God bless all fathers!

1:30 pm · March 19, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Saint Joseph is an outstanding example of acceptance of God’s plans. May he help everyone, especially young people who are discerning, to make God’s dreams for them come true. #Vocations vatican.va/content/f…

11:15 am · March 19, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

I pray that every family may feel the living presence of the Holy Family of Nazareth in their own home, that they may fill our small domestic communities with sincere and generous love, a source of joy even in trials and difficulties. #AmorisLaetitia pic.twitter.com/ku78…

10:00 am · March 19, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

To experience #Lent in hope means receiving the hope of Christ, who gave his life on the cross and was raised by God on the third day, and always being prepared to make a defence to anyone who calls us to account for our hope (1 Pt 3,15).

12:30 pm · March 18, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

With great sorrow, I must recall the dramatic situation in #Myanmar, where many people, especially young people, are losing their lives to offer hope to their country. I too kneel in the streets of Myanmar and say: End the violence! May dialogue prevail!

12:30 pm · March 17, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The Holy Spirit writes the history of the Church and of the world. We are open books, willing to receive his handwriting. And in each of us the Spirit composes original works, because there is never one Christian who is completely identical to another. #GeneralAudience

11:30 am · March 17, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

In these days of uncertainty about our future, in our charity may we speak works of reassurance and help others to realise that God loves them as sons and daughters. #Lent

12:30 pm · March 16, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

To experience #Lent with love means caring for those who suffer or feel abandoned and fearful because of the #Covid-19 pandemic.

12:30 pm · March 15, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Ten years ago, the bloody conflict in Syria began that has caused one of the most serious humanitarian catastrophes. Let us #PrayTogether so that all the suffering experienced by beloved and tortured Syria might not be forgotten and so that our solidarity might revive their hope.

2:40 pm · March 14, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

Dear brothers and sisters from the #Philippines, five hundred years have passed since the Christian message first arrived in your land and you received the joy of the Gospel. And this joy is evident in your people. Thank you for the joy you bring to the whole world!

12:30 pm · March 14, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

If God so loves us that he gives himself to us, the Church too has this mission. She is not sent to judge but to welcome; not to impose, but to sow; not to condemn, but to bring Christ who is our salvation. vatican.va/content/f…

12:00 pm · March 14, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

In Jesus, God went in search of us where we were lost. In Jesus, he came to raise us up when we fell. In Jesus, he wept with us and healed our wounds. In Jesus, he blessed our life forever. #Laetare

11:30 am · March 14, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

#Lent is about discerning where our hearts are directed. Let us ask: Where is my life’s navigation system taking me – towards God or towards myself?

12:30 pm · March 13, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

By receiving forgiveness in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, that is the heart of our process of conversion, we spread forgiveness. Having received forgiveness, we can offer it through attentive dialogue and giving comfort to those experiencing sorrow and pain. #Lent

12:30 pm · March 12, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

I encourage you to dedicate time to the Word of God, to the Sacraments, and to fasting and prayer, in order to renew our relationship with God, ourselves, and our neighbor. #Lent #24hoursfortheLord

11:30 am · March 12, 2021

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

The beginning of the return to God is the recognition of our need for him and his mercy. This is the right path, the path of humility. #Lent #24hoursfortheLord

10:30 am · March 12, 2021