To sense each creature singing the hymn of its existence is to live joyfully in God’s love and hope. This contemplation of creation allows us to discover in each thing a teaching which God wishes to hand on to us, since for the believer, to contemplate creation is to hear a message, to listen to the paradoxical and silent voice of God
Easter is the feast of tombstones taken away, rocks rolled aside. God takes away even the hardest stones against which our hopes and expectations crash: death sin, fear, worldliness. Human history does not end before a tombstone, because today it encounters the “living stone”, the risen Jesus. We, as Church, are built on Jesus, and even when we grow disheartened and tempted to judge everything in the light of our failures, Jesus comes to make all things new, to overturn our every disappointment. Each of us is called to rediscover in the Risen Christ the one who rolls back from our heart the heaviest of stones. Easter Homily, 2019
We are called to live our Lenten journey as people directed toward the light of Christ. We are called to welcome this light into our conscience, to open our hearts to God’s infinite love, to God’s mercy full of tenderness and goodness. God always forgives our sins when we ask for forgiveness. Angelus Message
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. Pope Francis on Twitter
I come among you as a pilgrim, a penitent pilgrim of peace, in search of fraternity, animated by the desire to pray together and to walk together, with brothers & sisters of other religious traditions, under the sign of our Father Abraham, who unites Muslims, Jews and Christians in one family. I come to your blessed & wounded land as a pilgrim of hope. From you, in Nineveh, resounded the prophecy of Jonah, who prevented destruction and brought a new hope, the hope of God, which encourages us to rebuild & begin again, to build together a future of peace. Brothers & sisters of every religious tradition, it is up to us to continue the journey that Abraham began thousands of years ago: to walk together, in the same spirit, along the paths of peace, especially in these difficult times of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. I ask you to pray together with me to our God. Pope Francis to the People of Iraq, March 4, 2021
Lent is a journey of return to God, and an opportunity to deepen our love of our brothers and sisters. God is appealing to our hearts and our entire being, inviting us to Him. It is a time to reconsider the path we are taking, to find the route that leads us home, and to rediscover our profound relationship with God, on whom everything depends. Pope Francis” homily at Ash Wednesday Mass, 2/17/2021
“How can we not pray to the Father of all? Everyone prays as they know how, as they can, according to what they have received from their culture. We aren’t praying against each other… We are united in humanity as brothers and sisters. Angelus Talk , Jan. 13, 2021
Amid so much darkness, we see the Light of Christ. May we be in this world a ray of that Light which shone forth from Bethlehem, bringing joy and peace to the hearts of all men and women. Pope Francis
Only a gaze transformed by love can enable the dignity of others to be recognized, and as a consequence, the poor to be acknowledged and valued in their dignity, respected in their identity and culture, and thus truly integrated into society. Fratelli Tutti
We need to look at our cities with a gaze of faith, which sees God dwelling in homes, on the streets and in the squares. God’s presence must be found, discovered. God does not hide himself from those who seek him with a sincere heart. Pope Francis on Twitter.
