You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.
To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.
Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.
The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.
Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.
Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.
Inequality is the root of social evil.
Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.
The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace."
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more
How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!
Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.
Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!
Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.
It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.
The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts.
Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!
We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.
We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.
Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.
Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.
Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.
On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.
Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.
Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.
Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins.
The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!
So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart...
The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.
Don't let anyone rob you of hope.
Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.
Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.
Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity
God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.
Let Jesus preach to you, and and let Jesus heal you. We are all wounded. Everyone.
Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace.
A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.
If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.
Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.
There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness
No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.
