- General Audience Address, 24 October 2012
Showing posts with label Discipleship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discipleship. Show all posts
02 July 2015
Dear friends, our time needs Christians who have been grasped by Christ,
who grow in faith through their familiarity with Sacred Scripture and
the sacraments. People who are, as it were, an open book that tells of
the experience of new life in the Spirit, of the presence of that God
who supports us on our way and opens us to everlasting life.
To be baptized is never a solitary act by “me”; it is always,
necessarily, being united with all the others, being in unity and
solidarity with the whole Body of Christ, with the whole community of
his brothers and sisters. This event which is Baptism inserts me in
community, breaks my isolation. We must bear this in mind in our being
Christian.
- Lectio Divina, 11 June 2012
Becoming Christian is not something that follows a decision of mine:
“herewith I make myself a Christian”. Of course, my decision is also
necessary, but first of all it is an action of God with me: it is not I
who make myself Christian. I am taken on by God, taken in hand by God
and thus, by saying “yes” to God’s action I become Christian. Becoming
Christians, in a certain sense is passive; I do not make myself
Christian but God makes me his man, God takes me in hand and puts my
life in a new dimension. Likewise I do not make myself live but life is
given to me; I am not born because I have made myself a human being, but
I am born because I have been granted to be human. Therefore my
Christian being has also been granted to me, it is in the passive for me, which becomes active in
our, in my life. And this fact of being in the passive, of not making
ourselves Christian but of being made Christian by God, already to some
extent involves the mystery of the Cross: only by dying to my
selfishness, by coming out of myself, can I be Christian.
- Lectio Divina, 11 June 2012
17 February 2015
The disciple of Jesus does not respond to evil with evil, but is always an instrument of good instead, a herald of pardon, a bearer of happiness, a servant of unity. He wishes to write in each of your lives a story of friendship. Hold on to him, then, as the best of friends. He will never tire of speaking to those who always love and who do good. This you will hear, if you strive in each moment to be with him who will help you in more difficult situations.
- Meeting with Young People, 24 March 2012
08 October 2013
It is the crucified and glorious face of Christ which ought to
guide us, so that we may witness to his love for the world.
- Address to the Bishops of Benin, 19 November 2011
15 July 2013
The eyes
of the heart must be turned to the Lord, who is in our midst: this is a
fundamental disposition.
- General Audience Address, 26 September 2012
Finding one’s identity in Christ means reaching communion
with him, that does not wipe me out but raises me to the loftiest dignity, that
of a child of God in Christ...
- General Audience Address, 3 October 2012
Believing means entrusting one’s life
to the One who alone can give it fullness in time and open it to a hope beyond
time.
- Homily, 1 December 2012
Believing means entrusting one’s life
to the One who alone can give it fullness in time and open it to a hope beyond
time.
- Homily, 1 December 2012
...your role as
Christians is to take an active part in the life of society, seeking to make it
ever more humane, ever more marked by authentic freedom, justice and solidarity.
- Address, 11 November 2011
We also become visible instruments of his love in a
world that still profoundly yearns for that love amid the poverty, loneliness,
marginalization and ignorance that we see all around us.
- Address, 11 November 2011
It is important for everyone, in fact, to learn ever better
how to “remain” with the Lord daily in personal encounters to allow his love to
take hold of them and to be proclaimers of the Gospel. It is important to seek
to live one’s life generously, not according to one’s own plan, but to the one
God has for each of us, conforming our own will to the Lord’s; it is important
to be prepared, also through serious and committed study, to serve the People of
God in the tasks which will be entrusted to them.
- Homily, 4 November 2011
Today Christians are called to be witnesses of
prayer precisely because our world is often closed to the divine
horizon and to the hope that brings the encounter with God.
- General Audience Address, 30 November 2011
Faith starts with God, who opens his heart to us and invites us to share in his own divine life. Faith does not simply provide information about who Christ is; rather, it entails a personal relationship with Christ, a surrender of our whole person, with all our understanding, will and feelings, to God's self-revelation.
- Homily, 21 August 2011
06 July 2013
13 January 2013
God makes himself a man like us to give us a hope that is sure: if we follow him, if we are consistent in living our Christian life, he will draw us to him, he will lead us to communion with him; and there will be in our hearts true joy and true peace, even in difficulty, even in moments of weakness.
- Homily, 16 December 2012
Sin alone can distance us from him, but this is a factor of separation that we ourselves introduce into our relationship with the Lord. Yet, even when we cut ourselves adrift, he does not cease to love us and continues to be close with his mercy, with his readiness to forgive and to embrace us in his love.
- Homily, 16 December 2012
14 September 2012
In the faith we open the doors of our existence so that God may enter us, so that God can be the power that gives life and a path to our existence. In us there is room, let us open ourselves like Mary opened herself, saying: “Let your will be done, I am the servant of the Lord”. By opening ourselves to God, we lose nothing. On the contrary, our life becomes rich and great.
- Homily, 15 August 2012
It is not a matter here of following an idea or a project, but of encountering Jesus as a living Person, of letting ourselves be totally involved by him and by his Gospel.
- Angelus Address, 5 August 2012
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