Heroism, sanctity, daring, require a constant spiritual preparation. You
can only ever give to others what you already have. And in order to
give God to them you yourself need to get to know him, to live his Life,
to serve him. (The Forge, 78)
Pope Francis
Monday, 14 October 2013
Friday, 11 October 2013
11/10/2013 Pope Francis (@Pontifex): Give us the strength, Mary our Mother, to accept and embrace the Cross!
"When we encounter the Cross, we turn to Mary: Give us the strength, Mary our Mother, to accept and embrace the Cross!"
Pope Francis (@Pontifex)
Thursday, 10 October 2013
10/10/2013 Papa Francisco (@Pontifex_pt): O mistério da Cruz, um mistério de amor
O mistério da Cruz, um mistério de amor, pode-se compreender na oração. Rezar e chorar de joelhos diante da Cruz.
Papa Francisco (@Pontifex_pt
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
8/10/2013 Papa Francisco (@Pontifex_pt): Só o amor preenche os vazios, as voragens que o mal abre nos corações
O segredo da vida cristã é o amor. Só o amor preenche os vazios, as voragens que o mal abre nos corações.
Papa Francisco (@Pontifex_pt
8/10/2013 Pope Francis (@Pontifex): Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil
"The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil."
Pope Francis (@Pontifex)
Monday, 7 October 2013
7/10/2013 Pope Francis (@Pontifex): Mercy is the true power that can save from sin and evil
"Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil."
Pope Francis (@Pontifex)
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Sanctifying one's work is no fantastic dream - Personal sanctity is a remedy for everything
Sanctifying one's work is no fantastic dream, but the
mission of every Christian - yours and mine. That is what that
lathe-worker had discovered, when he said: "I am overwhelmed with
happiness when I think how true it is that while I am working at the
lathe and singing - singing all the time, on the outside and on the
inside - I can become a saint. How good God is!" (Furrow, 517)
During the time that God has granted you in this world, make up your mind in earnest to do something worthwhile; time is pressing and the mission of men - and women - on earth is most noble, heroic and glorious when it enkindles shrunken and dried-up hearts with the fire of Christ. It is worthwhile taking peace and happiness to others through a strong and joyful crusade. (Furrow, 613)
You sometimes allow the bad side of your character to come out, and it has shown itself, on more than one occasion, in an absurd harshness. At other times, you do not bother to prepare your heart and your head so that they may be a worthy dwelling for the Most Holy Trinity. And you invariably end up by remaining rather distant from Jesus, whom you know so little. Going on like this, you will never have interior life. (Furrow, 651)
Personal sanctity is a remedy for everything. That is why the saints have been full of peace, of fortitude, of joy, of security. (Furrow, 653)
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
1/10/2013 Papa Francisco (@Pontifex_pt): Rezamos de verdade?
Rezamos de verdade? Sem uma relação constante com Deus, é difícil ter uma vida cristã autêntica e coerente.
Saturday, 28 September 2013
“Take courage, Jesus said, it is myself; do not be afraid”
The Lord's calling - vocation - always presents itself like this: "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." Yes: a vocation demands self-denial, sacrifice. But how pleasant that sacrifice turns out to be -- Gaudium cum pace, joy and peace -- if that self-giving is complete. (Furrow, 8)
If you agree to let God take command of your boat, if you let him be the master, how safe you will be!... even when he seems to have gone away, to have fallen asleep, to be unconcerned; even though a storm is rising and it’s pitch dark all around you. St Mark tells us how once the apostles were in just such circumstances and Jesus ‘when the night had reached its fourth quarter, seeing them hard put to it with rowing (for the wind was against them), came to them walking on the sea... Take courage, he said, it is myself; do not be afraid. So he came to them on board the boat, and thereupon the wind dropped’.
My children, so many things happen to us here on earth!... I could tell you so many tales of sorrow, of suffering, of ill treatment, of martyrdom — and I mean it literally — of the heroism of many souls. In our mind’s eye we sometimes get the impression that Jesus is asleep, that he does not hear us. But St Luke describes how the Lord looks after his own. ‘When they (the disciples), were sailing, he slept. And there came down a storm of wind upon the lake and they began to ship water perilously. They came and awakened him saying, Master, we perish! But Jesus arising, rebuked the wind and the rage of the water. And it ceased and there was a calm. And he said to them, Where is your faith?’
If we give ourselves to him, he will give himself to us. We must trust the Master completely, place ourselves unreservedly in his hands; show him by our actions that the boat is his; that we want him to do as he pleases with all we possess. (Friends of God, 22)
27/09/2013 Pope Francis (@Pontifex): Faith is given to us in and through the Church
We do not become Christians by ourselves. Faith is above all a gift from God which is given to us in and through the Church.
Pope Francis (@Pontifex)
Thursday, 26 September 2013
24/09/2013 Pope Francis (@Pontifex): understanding and love
Let us ask the Lord to give us the gentleness to look upon the poor with
understanding and love, devoid of human calculation and fear.
Pope Francis (@Pontifex)
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Paz de Deus
"Não estejais inquietos por coisa alguma; antes as vossas petições sejam em tudo conhecidas diante de Deus pela oração e súplica, com ação de graças.
E a paz de Deus, que excede todo o entendimento, guardará os vossos corações e os vossos pensamentos em Cristo Jesus."
Filipenses 4:6-7
E a paz de Deus, que excede todo o entendimento, guardará os vossos corações e os vossos pensamentos em Cristo Jesus."
Filipenses 4:6-7
17/9/2013 Pope Francis (@Pontifex): Am I self-absorbed in my own concerns or am I aware of those who need help?
There are many people in need in today’s world. Am I self-absorbed in my own concerns or am I aware of those who need help?
Pope Francis (@Pontifex)
The gaze of Jesus always makes us worthy, gives us dignity
Allowing
ourselves to be looked upon by Jesus, whose gaze changes our lives:
this was the focus of Pope Francis’ remarks after the readings at Mass
on Saturday morning, the Feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist,
whose conversion story is told in the Gospel passage of the day.
Jesus looks Matthew – a tax collector, a public sinner whose whole life was money, which he idolized – right in the eye. Then, said Pope Fraancis, “[Matthew feels] in his heart the gaze of the Lord who looked upon him.”:
“That gaze overtook him completely, it changed his life. We say he was converted. He Changed his life. ‘As soon as he felt that gaze in his heart, he got up and followed him.’ This is true: Jesus’ gaze always lifts us up. It is a look that always lifts us up, and never leaves you in your place, never lets us down, never humiliates. It invites you to get up - a look that brings you to grow, to move forward, that encourages you, because [the One who looks upon you] loves you. The gaze makes you feel that He loves you. This gives the courage to follow Him: ‘And he got up and followed him.’”
“The gaze of Jesus,” said Pope Francis, “[is not something] magical: Jesus was not a specialist in hypnosis.” Jesus looked on everyone, and everyone felt His gaze upon him, as if Jesus had called each person by name … and this look would change the lives of everyone.” So did Peter change, who, after denying his Lord then met His gaze and wept bitterly. Then there is the final gaze, from the Cross. “He looked on His mother, looked at the [beloved] disciple and said, with that look, he told us that His mother was our mother and that the Church is mother - with a look. Then he looked at the Good Thief, and once again to Peter, “[who was] afraid, after the Resurrection, with those three questions: ‘Do you love me?’ - a look that shamed him. The Pope said it will do us well to think and pray about this gaze of Jesus, and to let ourselves be looked on by Him. “Jesus goes to the house of Matthew as he was sitting at the table many sinners arrive. “Word had spread, and all of society - but not the [respectable folks] - felt invited to lunch,” as it happened in the parable of the king who ordered the servants to go to the main crossroads to invite to his son’s wedding as many people as they met, both good and bad:
“And sinners, tax collectors and sinners, they felt that Jesus had looked on them and that gaze of Jesus upon them – I believe – was like a breath on embers, and they felt that there was fire in the belly, again, and that Jesus made lifted them up, gave them back their dignity. The gaze of Jesus always makes us worthy, gives us dignity. It is a generous look. ‘But behold, what a teacher: dining with the dregs of the city!’: But beneath that dirt there were the embers of desire for God, the embers of God's image that wanted someone who could help them be kindled anew. This is what the gaze of Jesus does.”
“All of us, in our lives,” concluded Pope Francis, “have felt this gaze, and not once only: many times! Perhaps the person of a priest, who taught us doctrine or forgave our sins, perhaps in the help of friends.”:
“But all of us find ourselves before that gaze, that marvelous gaze, and we go forward in life, in the certainty that He looks upon us. He too, however, awaits us, in order to look on us definitively – and that final gaze of Jesus upon our lives will be forever, it will be eternal. I ask all the saints upon whom Jesus has looked, to prepare us to let ourselves be looked upon in life, and that they prepare us also for that final – and first! – gaze of Jesus!”
Jesus looks Matthew – a tax collector, a public sinner whose whole life was money, which he idolized – right in the eye. Then, said Pope Fraancis, “[Matthew feels] in his heart the gaze of the Lord who looked upon him.”:
“That gaze overtook him completely, it changed his life. We say he was converted. He Changed his life. ‘As soon as he felt that gaze in his heart, he got up and followed him.’ This is true: Jesus’ gaze always lifts us up. It is a look that always lifts us up, and never leaves you in your place, never lets us down, never humiliates. It invites you to get up - a look that brings you to grow, to move forward, that encourages you, because [the One who looks upon you] loves you. The gaze makes you feel that He loves you. This gives the courage to follow Him: ‘And he got up and followed him.’”
“The gaze of Jesus,” said Pope Francis, “[is not something] magical: Jesus was not a specialist in hypnosis.” Jesus looked on everyone, and everyone felt His gaze upon him, as if Jesus had called each person by name … and this look would change the lives of everyone.” So did Peter change, who, after denying his Lord then met His gaze and wept bitterly. Then there is the final gaze, from the Cross. “He looked on His mother, looked at the [beloved] disciple and said, with that look, he told us that His mother was our mother and that the Church is mother - with a look. Then he looked at the Good Thief, and once again to Peter, “[who was] afraid, after the Resurrection, with those three questions: ‘Do you love me?’ - a look that shamed him. The Pope said it will do us well to think and pray about this gaze of Jesus, and to let ourselves be looked on by Him. “Jesus goes to the house of Matthew as he was sitting at the table many sinners arrive. “Word had spread, and all of society - but not the [respectable folks] - felt invited to lunch,” as it happened in the parable of the king who ordered the servants to go to the main crossroads to invite to his son’s wedding as many people as they met, both good and bad:
“And sinners, tax collectors and sinners, they felt that Jesus had looked on them and that gaze of Jesus upon them – I believe – was like a breath on embers, and they felt that there was fire in the belly, again, and that Jesus made lifted them up, gave them back their dignity. The gaze of Jesus always makes us worthy, gives us dignity. It is a generous look. ‘But behold, what a teacher: dining with the dregs of the city!’: But beneath that dirt there were the embers of desire for God, the embers of God's image that wanted someone who could help them be kindled anew. This is what the gaze of Jesus does.”
“All of us, in our lives,” concluded Pope Francis, “have felt this gaze, and not once only: many times! Perhaps the person of a priest, who taught us doctrine or forgave our sins, perhaps in the help of friends.”:
“But all of us find ourselves before that gaze, that marvelous gaze, and we go forward in life, in the certainty that He looks upon us. He too, however, awaits us, in order to look on us definitively – and that final gaze of Jesus upon our lives will be forever, it will be eternal. I ask all the saints upon whom Jesus has looked, to prepare us to let ourselves be looked upon in life, and that they prepare us also for that final – and first! – gaze of Jesus!”
Saturday, 21 September 2013
25/08/2013 Papa Francisco (@Pontifex_pt): misericórdia de Deus
"Não tenham medo de pedir perdão a Deus. Ele nunca se cansa de nos perdoar. Deus é pura misericórdia."
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10/9/2013 Papa Francisco (@Pontifex_pt): guerra contra o mal
"A única guerra que todos nós devemos combater é a guerra contra o mal."
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21/9/2013 Papa Francisco (@Pontifex_pt): vençamos o medo
"A verdadeira caridade exige um pouco de coragem: vençamos o medo de sujarmos as mãos para ajudar os necessitados."
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Wednesday, 11 September 2013
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