Category: Pope Francis

FAITHLINK News.Va: “#PopeFrancis: Divine Motherhood of #Mary a Gift to Us All”

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“‘To celebrate #Mary as Mother of #God and our mother at the beginning of the new year means recalling a certainty that will accompany our days,’ said #PopeFrancis, ‘we are a people with a Mother; we are not orphans.’ … ‘To celebrate the feast of the Holy Mother of God reminds us that we are not interchangeable items of merchandise or information processors. We are children, we are family, we are God’s People.’ …”

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VIDEO: #Christmas Eve #Catholic #Mass from St. Peter’s Basilica at the #Vatican, Celebrated by #PopeFrancis – The Nativity of the Lord 12.25.16

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#Catholic #Mass from St. Peter’s Basilica at the #Vatican, #Christmas Eve 2016, Celebrated by #PopeFrancis. [Click here for Mass Readings]

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FAITHLINK News.va: “Angelus: The Kingdom of Heaven is the Love and Humility of God”

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“‘The Kingdom of God is at hand and is indeed in the middle of us, this is the central message of all Christian mission.’ Those were the words of Pope Francis during his Angelus address in St Peter’s Square on the Second Sunday of Advent. …”

 

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FAITHWATCH: “Pope Francis: Advent Calls Us to Enlarge Our Horizons” – News.Va/ Vatican Radio

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“Pope Francis marked the beginning of the new liturgical year at the Angelus for the First Sunday of Advent. … the Gospel introduces us to one of the most ‘evocative’ themes of the Advent season: the visit of the Lord to humanity. Pope Francis pointed out three visits of the Lord: the first … the Incarnation, and Birth of Jesus at Christmas; the second, in the present, as Jesus visits us continually, every day; and the final visit, in the future, when Jesus ‘will come again in Glory to judge the living and the dead.’ * * * … During Advent … ‘we are called to enlarge the horizons of our hearts, to be surprised by the life that is presented each day with its newness. In order to do this we need to learn to not depend on our own securities, our own established plans, because the Lord comes in the hour which we don’t imagine.'”

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FAITHLINK CNA: “Papal Advent advice: Don’t be dominated by material things”

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“The season of Advent is a reminder to us to open our horizons and have concern for more than just material things, the Pope said Sunday during his Angelus address. Advent is an invitation ‘to sobriety, to not be dominated by the things of this world, to material reality, but rather to govern them,’ Pope Francis said Nov. 27 in St. Peter’s Square. ‘If, on the contrary, we are conditioned and overpowered by them, it is not possible to perceive that which is much more important: our final encounter with the Lord: and this is important. That, that encounter.’ …”

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FAITHLINK News.Va: “Pope Francis: Full Text of Homily for Solemnity of Christ the King”

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“The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, is the crown of the liturgical year and this Holy Year of Mercy. The Gospel in fact presents the kingship of Jesus as the culmination of his saving work, and it does so in a surprising way. ‘The Christ of God, the Chosen One, the King’ (Lk 23:35,37) appears without power or glory: he is on the cross, where he seems more to be conquered than conqueror. His kingship is paradoxical: his throne is the cross; his crown is made of thorns; he has no sceptre, but a reed is put into his hand; he does not have luxurious clothing, but is stripped of his tunic; he wears no shiny rings on his fingers, but his hands are pierced with nails; he has no treasure, but is sold for thirty pieces of silver. …”

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CATHOLIC NEWSLINK News.va: “Pope condemns brutal killing of two Mexican priests”

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… Poza Rica and its surrounding territory has been the scene of drug-related gang violence and trafficking for many years. But it’s unclear why the Catholic priests were targeted.

Priests have been killed before in Mexico, but many of the killings have occurred in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero. The two murders bring the total number of Catholic priests killed in Mexico since 2012 to 14. …

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FAITHWATCH: “Pope Francis Canonizes Mother Teresa – Woman of Mercy” – News.Va

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Mother Teresa was ‘a generous dispenser of Divine Mercy’ among the ‘abandoned and discarded”. … Pope Francis thus described Mother Teresa during his homily on Sunday, 4 September, in the Canonization Mass for the Foundress of the men and women Missionaries of Charity.

More than a hundred thousand people gathered in St Peter’s Square for the solemn right, one of the central moments of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. During his homily for the canonization Mass, the Pontiff defined Mother Teresa as a “tireless worker of mercy”, and held her up as a “model of holiness” for the numerous representatives of the “the whole world of volunteers” present at the celebration. “How many hearts”, the Pontiff said, “have been comforted by volunteers! How many hands they have held; how many tears they have wiped away; how much love has been poured out in hidden, humble and selfless service!”. That service gives voice to the faith”, he added, “and expresses the mercy of the Father, who draws near to those in need ….

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