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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI advice to Parents and role of Christian Family
Inspiring message from Pope Benedict XVI on the happiness that comes from Jesus even when suffering, directed to the youth but really for everyone
Pope Benedict XVI, June 4, 2011:
Jesus speaks to you today, through the Gospel and his Holy Spirit. He is your contemporary! He seeks you even before you seek him! While fully respecting your freedom, he approaches each one of you and offers himself as the authentic and decisive response to the longing deep within your hearts, to your desire for a life worth living. Let him take you by the hand! Let him become more and more your friend and companion along life's journey. Put your trust in him and he will never disappoint you!".
"Jesus enables you to know at first hand the love of God the Father; he helps you realize that your happiness comes from his friendship, from fellowship with him. Why? Because we have been created and saved by love, and it is only in love, the love which desires and seeks the good of others, that we truly experience the meaning of life and find happiness in living it, even amid difficulties, trials and disappointments, even when it means swimming against the tide".
Benedict XVI emphasized that "Jesus is not a Teacher who deceives his disciples: he tells us clearly that walking by his side calls for commitment and personal sacrifice, but it is worth the effort". In this sense he encouraged the youth to not let themselves "be led astray by enticing promises of easy success, by lifestyles which regard appearances as more important than inner depth. Do not yield to the temptation of putting all your trust in possessions, in material things, while abandoning the search for the truth which is always "greater", which guides us like a star high in the heavens to where Christ would lead us. Let it guide you to the very heights of God!"
Pope Benedict XVI on importance of forming conscience
Pope Benedict XVI on conscience and its role in societal success or failure:
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI on humanism
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI invokes Mary to spread joy of Christ
Pope Benedict XVI quote on Mary and Catholic Faith
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Pope Benedict quote to priests: Be available for Confession
Pope Asks Priests: Be Available for Confessions
"As the great saints did," Benedict XVI asks priests to be generous in dedicating time to hearing confessions. Saints he mentions as an example in this regard include Padre Pio, St. John Bosco, and St. Josemaría Escrivá.
"Faithful and generous availability by priests to hear confessions, following the example of great saints of the recent past (St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney, St. John Bosco, St. Josemaría Escrivá, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, St. Joseph Cafasso, and St. Leopoldo Mandić), shows that the confessional is a 'place' of true sanctification."
The Pope was speaking during a forum organized by the Apostolic Penitentiary. He told those present that every confession is a lesson in humility and faith for the priest himself, since it reminds him that it is not he who pardons, but God.
Benedict XVI stressed how important it is for the penitent to tell his sins to the priest, because "often it is the only opportunity to speak in depth" about matters of conscience.
He added that the advice the priest gives in confession helps the penitent to grow in self-knowledge and in interior peace.