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The Weekly Francis – 04 November 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 29 October 2020 to 4 November 2020.

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  • “I am close to the Catholic community of #Nice, mourning the attack that sowed death in a place of prayer and consolation. I pray for the victims, for their families and for the beloved French people, that they may respond to evil with good.” @Pontifex 29 October 2020
  • “Jesus challenges us to put aside all differences and, in the face of suffering, to draw near to others with no questions asked. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 30 October 2020
  • “We need to look at our cities with a contemplative gaze, a gaze of faith which sees God dwelling in homes, on the streets and squares. This presence must be found, discovered. God does not hide himself from those who seek him with a sincere heart. #WorldCitiesDay” @Pontifex 31 October 2020
  • “Every saint is a message which the Holy Spirit takes from the riches of Jesus Christ and gives to his people. #GaudeteEtExsultate #AllSaintsDay Image” @Pontifex 1 November 2020
  • “Choosing purity, meekness and mercy; choosing to entrust oneself to the Lord in poverty of spirit and in affliction; dedicating oneself to justice and peace – this means going against the current. This evangelical path was trodden by #AllTheSaints and Blesseds. #GospelOfTheDay” @Pontifex 1 November 2020
  • “Today we pray for all the #FaithfulDeparted and especially for the victims of the #Coronavirus: for those who have died alone, without the caress of their loved ones; and for those who have given their lives serving the sick.” @Pontifex 2 November 2020
  • “I express my sorrow and dismay for the terrorist attack in #Vienna, and I pray for the victims and their families. Enough violence! Let us together strengthen peace and fraternity. Only love can silence hate.” @Pontifex 3 November 2020
  • “Let us attend the school of Jesus Christ, teacher of #Prayer. May we learn from Him that prayer is primarily listening and encountering God, an art to be practiced with insistence, the place where we perceive that everything comes from God and returns to Him. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 4 November 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 28 October 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 22 October 2020 to 28 October 2020.

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  • “So often today man does not know what is within him, in the depths of his mind and heart…. Therefore, let Christ speak to man. He alone has words of life, of eternal life. #StJohnPaulII” @Pontifex 22 October 2020
  • “St #JohnPaulII and his passion for life and fascination with the mystery of God, of the world and of humankind was an extraordinary gift of God to the Church. Let us remember his faith: may it be an example to lives as witnesses today.” @Pontifex 22 October 2020
  • “Life without fraternal gratuitousness becomes a form of frenetic commerce, constantly weighing what we give and what we get back. God, instead, gives freely, helping even those who are unfaithful; he “makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good” (Mt 5:45). #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 23 October 2020
  • “If we want true integral human development for all, war must be avoided, ensuring the rule of law and tireless recourse to negotiation and arbitration. The United Nation ’s Charter applies transparently and sincerely, and is an reference point of justice and a peace. #UNDay” @Pontifex 24 October 2020
  • “What is not expressed in love of neighbour is not true love of God; and, likewise, what is not drawn from one’s relationship with God is not true love of neighbour. #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 22:34–40)” @Pontifex 25 October 2020
  • “Let us pray to the Lord for Nigeria, so that every form of violence might always be avoided, in the constant search of social harmony through the promotion of justice and the common good.” @Pontifex 25 October 2020
  • “Kindness frees us from the cruelty that at times infects human relationships, from the anxiety that prevents us from thinking of others, from the frantic flurry of activity that forgets that others also have a right to be happy. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 26 October 2020
  • “Those who love may be sure that none of their acts of love will be lost, nor any of their acts of sincere concern for others, nor any single act of love for God, nor any generous effort, nor any painful endurance. All of these enfold our world like a vital force. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 27 October 2020
  • ““You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased” (Lk 3:22). This simple phrase enables us to intuit something of the mystery of Jesus and of His heart, always turned to the Father. Jesus gave us His own #Prayer, which is His loving dialogue with the Father. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 28 October 2020
  • “I unite myself to the pain of the families of the students barbarically killed in #Kumba, #Cameroon. May God enlighten hearts, so that similar acts may never be repeated! I send my affection to the families and all Cameroon, and I invoke the comfort that only God can give.” @Pontifex 28 October 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 21 October 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 15 October 2020 to 21 October 2020.

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  • “Today we recall Saint #TeresaOfJesus, master of #prayer. She teaches us that prayer is an expression of friendship with God who always loves us. With God nothing can disturb or frighten us, because ”God alone suffices.”” @Pontifex 15 October 2020
  • “It is time to subscribe to a global pact on education for and with future generations. This requires commitment from families, communities, schools, universities, institutions, religions, governments, and the human family to train mature men and women. #GlobalCompactOnEducation” @Pontifex 15 October 2020
  • “Education bears within itself a seed of hope: the hope of peace and justice; the hope of beauty and goodness; the hope of social harmony. #GlobalCompactOnEducation Message” @Pontifex 15 October 2020
  • “Hunger is not only a tragedy for humanity, it is shameful. Faced with this reality, we cannot remain insensitive or paralyzed. We are all responsible. #WorldHungerDay” @Pontifex 16 October 2020
  • “A courageous decision? Using the money spent on weapons for a “global Fund” to defeat hunger. This would help avoid many wars and the emigration of many of our brothers and sisters from the poorest nations.” @Pontifex 16 October 2020
  • “We need to develop the awareness that nowadays we are either all saved together or no one is saved. #Poverty, decadence and suffering in one part of the earth are a breeding ground for problems that will end up affecting the entire planet. #FratelliTutti #EndPoverty” @Pontifex 17 October 2020
  • “Today and tomorrow, one million children around the world pray the Rosary. May we confidently recite the #Rosary every day. It is a weapon that protects us from evil and temptation. #ChildrenPraying” @Pontifex 18 October 2020
  • “The mission, the ‘Church on the move’, is not a programme to be carried out by sheer force of will. It is Christ who makes the Church go out of herself. In the mission of evangelization, you move because the Holy Spirit pushes you, and carries you. #WorldMissionDay” @Pontifex 18 October 2020
  • “Belonging to Christ, and the resulting way of life, do not isolate the believer from the world, but rather make him or her the protagonist in a service of love for the common good.” @Pontifex 18 October 2020
  • “I invite you again to take the #Rosary and lift up your gaze to Our Lady, sign of consolation and sure hope. One million children around the world are doing this today, as they pray for unity and peace. #ChildrenPraying” @Pontifex 19 October 2020
  • “Our present gathering represents an incentive to religious leaders and to all believers to pray fervently for peace, never resigned to war, but working with the gentle strength of faith to end conflicts. #Peaceandfraternity YouTube” @Pontifex 20 October 2020
  • “The “gospel” of save yourself is not the Gospel of salvation. It is the falsest of the apocryphal gospels, making others carry the cross. Whereas the true Gospel bids us take up the cross of others. #Peaceandfraternity” @Pontifex 20 October 2020
  • ““Enough!” says Jesus (Lk 22:38), when his disciples produce two swords before the Passion. “Enough!” That single word of Jesus echoes through the centuries and reaches us forcefully in our own time: enough of swords, weapons, violence and war!” @Pontifex 20 October 2020
  • “To all believers, and to men and women of good will, we say: let us become creative artisans of peace, let us build social friendship, let us make our own the culture of dialogue. #Peaceandfraternity Homily” @Pontifex 20 October 2020
  • “Prayer is the centre of life. If there is prayer, even a brother, a sister, becomes important. Those who adore God, love His children. Those who respect God, respect human beings. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 21 October 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 07 October 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 20 November 2017 to 17 October 2020.

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  • “The destruction of the human environment is extremely serious, not only because God has entrusted the world to us, but because human life is itself a gift which must be defended. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 24 September 2020
  • “Everyone’s talents and involvement are needed to redress the damage caused by human abuse of God’s creation. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 25 September 2020
  • “The #pandemic has shown us that we cannot live without one another. The United Nations was established to bring nations together, to be a bridge between peoples. Let us make good use of it to build together the future we all desire. #UN75
    @UN” @Pontifex 25 September 2020
  • “I renew my appeal that in light of the present circumstances, that all nations be enabled to meet the greatest needs of the moment, reducing or forgiving the debt of the poorest nations. #UN75
    @UN” @Pontifex 25 September 2020
  • “We need to dismantle the perverse logic that links personal and national security to the possession of weaponry. This logic serves only to increase the profits of the arms industry, while fostering a climate of distrust and fear between persons and peoples. #UN75
    @UN” @Pontifex 25 September 2020
  • “I urge civil authorities to be especially attentive to children who are denied their fundamental rights and dignity, particularly their right to life and to schooling. #UN75
    @UN Message” @Pontifex 25 September 2020
  • “Let us ask the Lord for the gift of peace, for a world without arms of mass destruction! Let us dedicate ourselves to free humanity from nuclear arms, this serious threat to the human race.” @Pontifex 26 September 2020
  • “We see the face of Jesus in the faces of the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, the sick, strangers and prisoners; Christ calls us to help. #WDMR2020 #DisplacedlikeJesus
    @M_RSection Message” @Pontifex 27 September 2020
  • “Let’s pray for the millions of internally displaced people. Just like Jesus and his parents who fled to Egypt, they live with fear, uncertainty and unease. #WDMR2020 #DisplacedlikeJesus
    @M_RSection” @Pontifex 27 September 2020
  • “Today we celebrate the Memorial of #StVincentDePaul, Patron of charitable organizations. May St Vincent’s example lead all of us to joyful and disinterested service to the most in need, and open us to hospitality and the gift of life.” @Pontifex 27 September 2020
  • “The #GospelOfTheDay questions the way of living a Christian life, which is not made up of dreams or beautiful aspirations, but of concrete commitments, to open ourselves ever more to God’s will and to love for our brothers and sisters.” @Pontifex 27 September 2020
  • “Almighty God, present in the entire universe and in the smallest of Your creatures, fill us with the strength of Your love so that we might take care of life and beauty. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 28 September 2020
  • “Saint Michael, help us in the battle for salvation we are fighting. Saint Gabriel, bring us the good news that Jesus has saved us, and grant us hope. Saint Raphael, take our hands and help us along on the path of complete healing. #ArchangelSaints” @Pontifex 29 September 2020
  • “Devotion to sacred Scripture, a “living and tender love” for the written word of God: this is the legacy that Saint Jerome bequeathed to the Church by his life and labours. Apostolic Letter” @Pontifex 30 September 2020
  • “Let us not go back to the ”normality“ sick with with injustice, inequality and environmental degradation.The normality to which we are called is that of the Kingdom of God, where there is bread for all and the social organisation is based on contributing, sharing and distributing” @Pontifex 30 September 2020
  • “#SaintThereseOfLisieux invites us to practise the little way of love, not to let the possibility of offering a smile to slip by, or any small gesture that sows peace and friendship. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 1 October 2020
  • “Let us continue to grow in the awareness that we all live in a common home as members of a single family! #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 2 October 2020
  • “The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes the task of uniting the entire human family in searching for sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 2 October 2020
  • “The effort to build a more just society implies the capacity of fraternity, a spirit of human communion. #SeasonOfCreation #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 3 October 2020
  • “I offer this social Encyclical as a modest contribution to continued reflection, in the hope that in the face of present-day attempts to eliminate or ignore others, we may prove capable of responding with a new vision of fraternity and social friendship. #FratelliTutti. Image” @Pontifex 3 October 2020
  • “#SaintFrancisofAssisi, faithful to Scripture, invites us to see nature as a magnificent book in which God speaks to us and grants us a glimpse of his infinite beauty and goodness. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 4 October 2020
  • “The parable of the murderous vinedressers (Mt 21:33–43) is an admonition for all times, including our own. The vineyard is the Lord’s, not ours. And God awaits the fruit of His vineyard from those He has sent to work in it. #GospelOfTheDay” @Pontifex 4 October 2020
  • “Encyclical #FratelliTutti Encylical Image” @Pontifex 4 October 2020
  • “#SaintFrancisofAssisi, this saint of fraternal love, simplicity and joy, who inspired me to write the Encyclical Laudato Si’, prompts me once more to devote this new Encyclical to fraternity and social friendship. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 4 October 2020
  • “To care for the world in which we live means to care for ourselves. Yet we need to think of ourselves more and more as a single family dwelling in a common home. #SeasonOfCreation #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 4 October 2020
  • “By his actions, the Good Samaritan showed that the existence of each and every individual is deeply tied to that of others: life is not simply time that passes; life is a time for interactions. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 5 October 2020
  • “We cannot be indifferent to suffering; we cannot allow anyone to go through life as an outcast. Instead,we should feel indignant,challenged to emerge from our comfortable isolation and to be changed by our contact with human suffering.That is the meaning of dignity #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 5 October 2020
  • “It is my desire that, in this our time, by acknowledging the dignity of each human person, we can contribute to the rebirth of a universal aspiration to fraternity. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 6 October 2020
  • “Let us dream, as a single human family, as fellow travelers sharing the same flesh, as children of the same earth which is our common home, each of us bringing the richness of his or her beliefs and convictions, each of us with his or her own voice, brothers and sisters all.” @Pontifex 6 October 2020
  • “As believers, we are convinced that, without an openness to the Father of all, there will be no solid and stable reasons for an appeal to fraternity. #FratelliTutti” @Pontifex 7 October 2020
  • “The journey of fraternity has a Mother. In the power of the risen Lord, she wants to give birth to a new world, where all of us are brothers and sisters, where there is room for all our societies discard, where justice and peace are resplendent. #OurLadyOfTheRosary #FratelliTuttiI” @Pontifex 7 October 2020
  • “The proof of #prayer is real love for our neighbour. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 17 October 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 23 September 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 10 September 2020 to 23 September 2020.

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  • “Everyone is important in God’s eyes, everyone can transform a part of the world polluted by human voracity into the good reality willed by the Creator. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 18 September 2020
  • “We are called to be instruments of God our Father, so that our planet might be what He dreamed of when he created it and correspond with his plan for peace, beauty and fullness. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 19 September 2020
  • “Those who reason using human logic, that is, the logic of the merits acquired through one’s own greatness, from being first, find themselves last. Instead, those who humbly entrust themselves to the Father’s mercy, from being last, find themselves first (see Mt 20:1–16)” @Pontifex 20 September 2020
  • “We need to pursue a genuine fraternity based on our common origin from God. The desire for #peace lies deep within the human heart, and we should not resign ourselves to seeking anything less than this.” @Pontifex 21 September 2020
  • “The journey of reconciliation calls for patience and trust. #Peace will not be obtained unless it is hoped for.” @Pontifex 21 September 2020
  • “Life is grounded in three fundamental and closely connected relationships: the Relationship with God, with our neighbour and with the earth. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 22 September 2020
  • “#Solidarity needs subsidiarity. There is no true solidarity without social participation, without the contribution of families, associations, cooperatives, small businesses, and other expressions of society. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 23 September 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 17 September 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 3 September 2020 to 17 September 2020.

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  • “The Sorrowful Virgin whose pierced heart mourned the death of Jesus now grieves for the sufferings of the crucified poor and for the creatures of this world laid waste by human power. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 15 September 2020
  • “Climate restoration is of utmost importance for the Earth’s future. Thus, I invite all nations to adopt more ambitious national targets to reduce emissions. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 16 September 2020
  • “As many spiritual masters have taught us, heaven, earth, sea, and every creature have an iconic capacity or mystical capacity to bring us back to the Creator and to communion with creation. #SeasonOfCreation #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 16 September 2020
  • “Contemplation, which leads us to an attitude of care, is not a question of looking at nature from the outside, as if we were not immersed in it. But we are inside nature, we are part of nature. #SeasonOfCreation #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 16 September 2020
  • “To contemplate and to care: these are two attitudes that show the way to correct and rebalance our relationship as human beings with creation. #SeasonOfCreation #GeneralAudience
    General Audience” @Pontifex 16 September 2020
  • “Today, the nature that surrounds us is no longer admired, but “devoured”. We must return to contemplation; so as not to be distracted by a thousand useless things, we must find silence; for the heart not to become sick, we must be still. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 17 September 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 09 September 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 13 May 2020 to 14 September 2020.

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  • Day of prayer @Pontifex 4 September 2020
  • “During this #SeasonOfCreation, may we be attentive to the rhythms of creation. The world was made to communicate the glory of God, to help us to discover the Lord of all in its beauty, and to return to Him.” @Pontifex 4 September 2020
  • “Mother Teresa, tireless worker of charity, pray for us, so that our criterion for action might be gratuitous love, offered freely to everyone without distinction of language, culture, race, or religion.” @Pontifex 5 September 2020
  • “At times it takes greater love to rehabilitate a brother or sister. In the #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 18:15–20) Jesus invites us to put them in God’s hands: only the Father can show a greater love than that of all brothers and sisters put together.” @Pontifex 6 September 2020
  • “Rather than a problem to be solved, the world is a joyful mystery to be contemplated with gladness and praise. #SeasonOfCreation #LaudatoSì” @Pontifex 7 September 2020
  • “Mary, the Mother who cared for Jesus, cares with maternal affection and pain also for this wounded world.” @Pontifex 8 September 2020
  • “The Christian response to the pandemic and to the consequent socio-economic crisis is based on love, above all, love of God who always precedes us (see 1 Jn 4:19). When we welcome this divine love, then we can respond similarly. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 14 September 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 02 September 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 20 August 2020 to 27 September 2020.

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  • “May the Holy Spirit make us grow constantly in knowledge of God so that we might spread His love and His truth in the world.” @Pontifex 20 August 2020
  • “Amid so many passing things, the Lord wants to remind us of what will remain forever: love, because “God is love”.” @Pontifex 21 August 2020
  • “God has no need to be defended by anyone and does not want His name to be used to terrorize people. We call upon everyone to stop using religions to incite hatred, violence, extremism and blind fanaticism. #HumanFraternity” @Pontifex 22 August 2020
  • “God does not love you because you behave well. He loves you, plain and simple. His love is unconditional; it does not depend on you.” @Pontifex 22 August 2020
  • “In the #GospelOfTheDay, we hear Jesus’s question directed to each one of us: “And you, who do you say I am?”. It is a question of giving not a theoretical answer, but one that involves faith, that is, life, because faith is life!” @Pontifex 23 August 2020
  • “Let’s not forget the victims of the coronavirus. So much suffering, so many people who lost their lives; and so many volunteers, doctors, nurses, sisters, priests, who also lost their lives. Let us remember the families who have suffered because of this.” @Pontifex 23 August 2020
  • “To pray is to allow yourself to be looked at by God without illusions, excuses, or justifications. Because from the devil come darkness and lies, from God come light and truth.” @Pontifex 24 August 2020
  • “Today is the tenth anniversary of the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico. I express my solidarity with the families of the victims who today are still asking for truth and justice. The Lord will hold us to account for all of the migrants who have fallen on their journey of Hope.” @Pontifex 24 August 2020
  • “To pray is to allow yourself to be looked at by God without illusions, excuses, or justifications. Because from the devil come darkness and lies, from God come light and truth.” @Pontifex 24 August 2020
  • “The root of every spiritual error is believing ourselves to be righteous. To consider ourselves righteous is to leave God, the only righteous one, out in the cold.” @Pontifex 25 August 2020
  • “After the crisis, will we continue with this economic system of social injustice and depreciating care for the environment, of creation, of our common home? Let’s think about this. #GeneralAudience General Audience @Pontifex 26 August 2020
  • “If we take care of the goods that the Creator gives us, if we put what we possess in common in such a way that no one would be lacking, then we would truly inspire hope to regenerate a more healthy and equal world. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 26 August 2020
  • “Trust in the Lord and make an effort to enter into his plans, accepting that His salvation can reach us in ways that may be different from what we expect.” @Pontifex 28 August 2020
  • “Putting the paschal mystery at the center of our lives means feeling compassion towards the wounds of the crucified Christ present in the many innocent victims of wars and violence, in attacks on life, in environmental disasters, and in poverty.” @Pontifex 29 August 2020
  • “For Peter and the other disciples – but for us too! – the cross is a ‘hindrance’, whereas Jesus considers the ‘hindrance’ escaping the cross, which would mean avoiding the Father’s will, the mission that the Father has entrusted to Him for our salvation. #GospelOfTheDay” @Pontifex 30 August 2020
  • “I follow with concern the tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean area and I appeal for constructive dialogue and respect for international law to resolve the conflicts that threaten the peace of the peoples of that region.” @Pontifex 31 August 2020
  • “#SeasonOfCreation Video” @Pontifex 31 August 2020
  • “Today marks the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. From now until October 4th we will celebrate the #JubileeForTheEarth with our Christian brothers and sisters of various Churches and traditions. #SeasonOfCreation” @Pontifex 1 September 2020
  • “The #JubileeForTheEarth calls us to think once again of our fellow human beings, especially the poor and the most vulnerable. We are asked to re-appropriate God’s original and loving plan of creation as a common heritage. Message” @Pontifex 1 September 2020
  • “A #JubileeForTheEarth is a good time to remember creation’s original vocation to exist as a community of love. We exist only in relationships: with God the Creator, with our brothers and sisters, and with all of God’s creatures within our common home.” @Pontifex 1 September 2020
  • “A #JubileeForTheEarth is a time to return to God, our loving Creator. We cannot live in harmony with creation if we are not at peace with the Creator who is the source and origin of all things.” @Pontifex 1 September 2020
  • “A #JubileeForTheEarth is a time to restore the original harmony of creation and to heal strained human relationships. #SeasonOfCreation Message” @Pontifex 1 September 2020
  • “The current pandemic has highlighted our interdependence: we are all linked to each other, for better or for worse. Therefore, to come out of this crisis better than before, we have to do so together, all of us, in solidarity. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 2 September 2020
  • “As a human family we have our common origin in God. We dwell in a common home, the garden-planet where God placed us. But when we forget all this, our social fabric is weakened and the environment deteriorates. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 2 September 2020
  • “I invite everyone to join in a universal day of prayer and fasting for Lebanon, on 4 September. I also invite our brothers and sisters of other religious confessions to join in this initiative in whatever way they deem best. General Audience” @Pontifex 2 September 2020
  • “We must always have this “holy restlessness” in our hearts, in the search for the true good who is God. Let us help others feel the thirst for God. He gives peace and happiness to our hearts.” @Pontifex 27 September 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 19 August 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 13 August 2020 to 19 August 2020.

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  • “https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/1293872426867142657” @Pontifex 13 August 2020
  • “Hope needs patience, the patience of knowing that we sow, but it is God who gives growth.” @Pontifex 14 August 2020
  • “With God, nothing is lost! In Mary, the goal has been reached and we have before our eyes the reasons why we journey: not to gain the things here below, which are fleeting, but the homeland above, which is for ever.” @Pontifex 15 August 2020
  • “Let us invoke the intercession of the “Mother of hope” for all the situations in the world that are most in need of hope, in particular for the population of the northern region of Nigeria, victim of violence and terrorist attacks.” @Pontifex 15 August 2020
  • “If we present our poverty to the Lord, with an existence marked by tears and suffering, but with the tenacious faith of the Canaanite woman (see Mt 15:21–28) then the Lord cannot but welcome our prayer with His paternal eyes and heart. #GospelOfTheDay” @Pontifex 16 August 2020
  • “It is not the wealthy who bear fruit in life, but those who build and maintain many friendships through various ”riches“, namely, through the various gifts God has given them.” @Pontifex 17 August 2020
  • “Wealth can force us to build walls. Jesus, instead, invites His disciples to transform goods and riches into relationships, because people are worth more than things, they are more valuable than any riches we possess.” @Pontifex 18 August 2020
  • “The response to the pandemic is dual: we need to find a cure for this small which has brought the whole world to its knees and we must cure a larger virus, that of social injustice. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 19 August 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 12 August 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 29 June 2020 to 12 August 2020.

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  • “#SaintIgnatius teaches us humility. Humility makes us aware that it is not we who build the Kingdom of God, but always the Lord’s grace which acts within us. We are fragile clay vessels, yet we bear and communicate an immense treasure.” @Pontifex 31 July 2020
  • “With the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves (see Mt 14:13–21), Jesus wants to educate His friends, both then and now, about God’s logic: the logic of taking responsibility for others. #GospelOfTheDay” @Pontifex 2 August 2020
  • “How important it is to put God’s forgiveness, which ‘generates heaven’ in us and around us, back at the centre! #PardonOfAssisi” @Pontifex 2 August 2020
  • “Let’s look at the ”saints next door“ who, with simplicity, respond to evil with good, have the courage to love their enemies and to pray for them.” @Pontifex 3 August 2020
  • “Dear brother priests, let us ask the Lord that we be men whose lives bear witness to the compassion and mercy that Jesus alone can bestow on us. #HolyCureOfArs” @Pontifex 4 August 2020
  • “Video” @Pontifex 4 August 2020
  • “Let us pray for the victims of the explosions in Beirut and for their families; and let us pray for Lebanon so that, through the dedication of all its social, political and religious elements, it might face this extremely tragic and painful moment.” @Pontifex 5 August 2020
  • “In the next few weeks, I invite you to tackle together the pressing questions that the pandemic has brought to the fore, social ills above all. And we will do it in the light of the Gospel, of the theological virtues and of the principles of the Church’s social doctrine.” @Pontifex 5 August 2020
  • “Let us keep our eyes fixed on the resplendent face of God, whom we contemplate in Christ transfigured on Mount Tabor. He is the light that illuminates the events of every day. #Transfiguration” @Pontifex 6 August 2020
  • “On the 75th anniversary of the atomic explosion at Hiroshima, let us remember that resources used in the arms race could and should be used instead to promote integral human development and to protect the natural environment. #Hiroshima75” @Pontifex 6 August 2020
  • “Men and women of #Prayer bear the reflection of light on their faces. Even on the darkest days the sun does not cease to illuminate them.” @Pontifex 7 August 2020
  • “We are all in need of the Father who extends His hand to us. To pray to Him, to invoke Him, is not an illusion. Illusion is to think we can do without Him! Prayer is the soul of hope.” @Pontifex 8 August 2020
  • “Having faith means keeping your heart turned to God, to His love, to His Fatherly tenderness, amid the storm. Jesus wanted to teach this to Peter and the disciples, and also to us today (Mt 14:22–33). #GospelOfTheDay” @Pontifex 9 August 2020
  • “Let us again pray for #Lebanon: after the catastrophe, for its particular identity, fruit of the encounter of different cultures, that with God’s help and everyone’s genuine participation, it may be reborn free and strong.” @Pontifex 9 August 2020
  • “We are born with a seed of dissatisfaction in search of fulfillment. Our heart, even without knowing it, thirsts for the encounter with God and seeks it, many times taking the wrong road. When our dissatisfaction encounters Jesus, the life of grace begins.” @Pontifex 10 August 2020
  • “God does not choose us because of our “goodness”, but precisely because we are and we feel small.” @Pontifex 11 August 2020
  • “The coronavirus is not the only disease to be fought, but rather, the pandemic has shed light on broader social ills. One of these is a distorted view of the person, a perspective that ignores the dignity and relational character of the person. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 12 August 2020

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