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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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General Audiences

Messages

Papal Tweets

  • “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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How to Decode Mysterious Church Father Citations

A reader writes:

Hi Mr. Akin,

I am an Indian Catholic and a huge fan of yours and am addicted to Catholic Answers content. I want to ask you how to verify sources of quotes.

I am currently collecting quotes on the Papacy in the early Church. I’ve got lots of stuff (copy-pasted from internet forums), but I want to be careful before I use them and see if they are accurate. I’ve seen these quotes being used in apologetic books, but I would like to see the original sources to confirm for myself.

A quote looks like, for example: Cyprian of Carthage (c. A.D. 200 – 258):

“the Chief or Ruling Church [at Rome], whence the Unity of the priesthood has its source, and to which heretical perfidy cannot gain access” [Epist. lv. ad Cornel. ed. Baluz].

I am not an academic so I don’t know how to work with these. What is this Epist. lv. ad Cornel. ed. Baluz.? This seems like an abbreviated name, so how do I find the exact title? Also, do you think I’d be able to find the book (even as a translation) online?

Thank you very much for writing and for your kind words. Your desire to look up quotations and verify them in context is very commendable! I wish more people did that!

You may find that not all of the quotations out there (either pro- or anti-papacy) are being used correctly and in context.

The system of citations used for these documents can take a little while to learn, and it helps to know some Latin, because those abbreviations are in Latin.

The citation “Epist. lv. ad Cornel. ed. Baluz” has 3 parts.

 

The first and most important is “Epist. lv.”

“Epist.” is short for “Epistula,” which is the Latin word for “epistle” or “letter”–so you know you’re looking for one of Cyprian’s letters.

“lv” is the Latin number for 55, so you’re looking for Cyprian’s Letter #55.

But letters can be numbered differently in different editions, so what’s Letter #55 in one book might have a different number in another book.

That’s where the other two parts of the citation come in.

 

“Ad Cornel.” tells you something else to help you identify the correct letter.

“Ad” is the Latin word for “to,” and “Cornel.” is an abbreviation for the name “Cornelius,” so “ad Cornel.” means the letter you’re looking for is addressed “to Cornelius.” If it’s addressed to someone else, it’s the wrong letter.

For example, here is Letter 55 in one collection that is available online:

https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050655.htm

Upon opening it, you might think, “Ah! This is Letter 55, so it must be the right one!” But it’s not. From the opening line, you can see it’s addressed “To the people abiding at Thibaris” not “To Cornelius.” Apparently, the editor of this collection gave the letters different numbers than the edition that was being cited.

 

So, who’s edition was that? This is where the last part of the citation comes in: “ed. Baluz”

“Ed.” is short for “editio”–the Latin word for “edition,” and “Baluz” is a proper name. So, somewhere out there, there was an edition of Cyprian’s letters by someone named Baluz, and in the edition of Baluz, Letter #55 was addressed to Cornelius, and that’s the letter you’re looking for.

Unfortunately, I don’t have Baluz’s edition. You might be able to find it, as it’s probably in the public domain. However, I went another route to find the letter you’re looking for.

I googled “cyprian chief or ruling church letter cornelius” and the first result was this one:

https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050654.htm

Instead of being Letter 55, it’s Letter 54–one off–in the collection that they have at NewAdvent.org

 

To find the specific passage, I then hit Ctrl-F and searched the letter for one of the keywords from your quotation–“unity”–and in section 14 of the letter, I found this:

After such things as these, moreover, they still dare — a false bishop having been appointed for them by, heretics— to set sail and to bear letters from schismatic and profane persons to the throne of Peter, and to the chief church whence priestly unity takes its source; and not to consider that these were the Romans whose faith was praised in the preaching of the apostle, to whom faithlessness could have no access.

That’s clearly the passage that you’re looking for; it’s just a different translation of it.

Because translations render words differently (note that this one uses “priestly unity” instead of “the unity of the priesthood”), you often have to try searching on more than one key term to find the right passage. If you’d searched on “priesthood” you wouldn’t have found the right passage. But searching on “unity,” you would find it.

 

If I were going to cite this passage for other people, I would do it like this:

Cyprian, Epistle 54:14

or

Cyprian, Letter 54:14

The reason is that I don’t want other people to have the same trouble finding the passage that I did. They probably won’t know what “Epist. lv ad Cornel. ed. Baluz” means. Neither will they likely know how to find Baluz’s edition, which is likely out of print.

But–if I update the citation to read “Letter 54” instead of 55–and if I add the section number 14, I can tell them exactly where to go in an edition that is easy to find on the Internet. I can even give them a direct link along with the citation (as above).

 

This procedure is what I used here, and variations on it will work when trying to identify other hard-to-understand citations.

If nothing else works, you can always just google key words from the quotation until you find the passage in its original context.

You may be aware of this, but something that can help when googling is using the “site:” tag to restrict the searching to a specific web site.

For example, NewAdvent.org has a lot of documents by the Church Fathers, and so–in addition to your key words–you can add the tag “site:newadvent.org” to your search query, and it will search New Advent only for the key terms, making it more likely that you’ll find the quotation in a primary source document.

Years ago, when I first started researching in the Church Fathers it took me a while to figure all this out, so I hope it’s helpful to you!

God bless you in your studies!

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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General Audiences

Papal Tweets

  • “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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General Audiences

Messages

Papal Tweets

  • “#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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Mysterious World Fan Art: Episode 116 (Amigurumi Jimmy)

Heather C. from Maryland writes by Email:

Our whole family enjoys the podcast and many of the others on SQPN. I enjoyed the recent submission of fan art and was inspired to make my own contribution in the only medium in which I excel, yarn.

Attached, please find pictures of Amigurumi Jimmy. I would love to send him in to you, but in the meantime he’ll hang out with some of my other amigurumi efforts, Panda with a Taco, and my favorite Pinewood Derby car from my tenure as a Cubmaster (My once little Cub is a Life Scout now!)

Please keep up the amazing shows and I’ll keep dividing my discretionary spending between being a Patron and feeding my yarn habit!

Thanks so much, Heather! I’ve now received Amigurumi Jimmy, and it’s awesome!

 

 

The Weekly Francis – 30 July 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 16 July 2020 to 30 July 2020.

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Papal Tweets

  • “#OurLadyOfMountCarmel, our mother, help us to have innocent hands and a pure heart, and not to utter lies or speak ill of our neighbor. Then we will be able to go up to the mountain of the Lord and obtain His blessing, His justice, and His salvation.” @Pontifex 16 July 2020
  • “In the parable of the weeds from the #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 13:24–43), Jesus helps us understand God’s patience, opening our hearts to hope.” @Pontifex 19 July 2020
  • “When love for parents and children is inspired and purified by love for the Lord, it then becomes wholly fruitful and produces good fruits within the #family itself and well beyond it.” @Pontifex 21 July 2020
  • “Prophecy is born whenever we allow ourselves to be challenged by God, not when we are concerned to keep everything quiet and under control.” @Pontifex 22 July 2020
  • “The true pilgrim is capable of going at the pace of the slowest person. And Jesus is capable of this. Jesus is our pilgrim companion. He respects our situation, and does not accelerate the pace. He is the Lord of patience.” @Pontifex 25 July 2020
  • “The Kingdom of Heaven is the opposite of the superfluous things the world offers, the opposite of a dull life: it is a treasure that renews everyday life and leads it to extend towards wider horizons. #GospelOfTheDay” @Pontifex 26 July 2020
  • “On the memorial of the Saints Joachim and Anne, Jesus’s “grandparents”, I would like to invite young people to do something tender towards the elderly, especially the loneliest, in their homes or residences. Dear young people, each elderly person is your grandparent!” @Pontifex 26 July 2020
  • “When someone offers us a service, we should not think that we deserve everything. Gratitude, appreciation is, first of all, good manners, but it is also a characteristic of a Christian. It is a simple but genuine sign of the Kingdom of God.” @Pontifex 27 July 2020
  • “Men and women who pray know that hope is stronger than discouragement. They believe that love is more powerful than death, and that love will surely triumph one day, even if it be in times and ways we do not know. #Prayer” @Pontifex 29 July 2020
  • “Trafficking in persons still constitutes an open wound on the body of contemporary society. I offer heartfelt thanks to all those who work on behalf of the innocent victims of the commodification of the human person. Much remains to be done! #EndHumanTrafficking” @Pontifex 30 July 2020
  • “#Friendship is one of life’s gifts and a grace from God. Faithful friends, who stand at our side in times of difficulty, are a reflection of the Lord’s love, His gentle and consoling presence in our lives.” @Pontifex 30 July 2020

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Cottingley Fairy Photos

For Episode 109 of Mysterious World

First photograph (Frances and dancing fairies)

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Original, unretouched print of first photo?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second photo (Elsie with gnome)

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Third photo (Frances with leaping fairy)

Fourth photo (Fairy offering flower to Elsie)

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Fifth photo (Fairy sunbath/bower)

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Original illustrations compared to fairy photos

 

The Weekly Francis – 15 July 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 9 July 2020 to 14 July 2020.

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Papal Tweets

  • “Faith is either missionary or it is no faith at all. Faith takes us out of ourselves and toward others. Faith must be transmitted, not to convince but to offer a treasure. Let us ask the Lord to help us live our faith with open doors: a transparent faith.” @Pontifex 9 July 2020
  • “#SaintBenedict, Patron of Europe, show us Christians of today how joyful hope always springs from faith, and how this can change the world.” @Pontifex 11 July 2020
  • “The #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 13:1–23) recalls that the Word of God is a fruitful and effective seed that God scatters generously everywhere. If we want, we can become good soil, ploughed and carefully cultivated, to help ripen the seed of the Word. Making it fruitful depends on us.” @Pontifex 12 July 2020
  • “On this #SeaSunday, we entrust to the Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea, all maritime personnel, fishermen, and their families. They have made many sacrifices – even during the lockdown – to continue working to provide us with food and other primary needs.” @Pontifex 12 July 2020
  • “On the Day of Judgment we will not be judged for our ideas, but for the compassion we have shown to others.” @Pontifex 14 July 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 08 July 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 2 July 2020 to 8 July 2020.

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Homilies

Letters

Papal Tweets

  • “Video” @Pontifex 2 July 2020
  • “Christian joy flows from listening to, and accepting, the Good News of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Whoever believes this message knows that life is born of the love of God the Father.” @Pontifex 3 July 2020
  • “In some places, #cooperatives are being developed to exploit renewable sources of energy which ensure local self-sufficiency. They can make a real difference in the fight against climate change, thanks to a strong sense of community and a deep love for the land.” @Pontifex 4 July 2020
  • “In the #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 11:25–30), Jesus praises the Father, because He has hidden the secrets of His Kingdom ”from the wise and the learned“ and revealed them to the ”little ones“, who long for Him and expect everything from Him.” @Pontifex 5 July 2020
  • “The United Nations has called for an immediate, global ceasefire in order to face the Covid–19 pandemic and provide humanitarian aid. I hope this Resolution will be implemented quickly for the good of those who suffer and become a first step toward a future of peace.” @Pontifex 5 July 2020
  • “Faith makes us walk with Jesus on the roads of this world, in the certainty that the power of His Spirit will bend the forces of evil, subjecting them to the power of God’s love.” @Pontifex 6 July 2020
  • “On the anniversary of my visit to #Lampedusa, let us pray that we might discover the face of Jesus in all people forced to flee their homeland because of the many injustices that continue to afflict our world.
    @M_RSection” @Pontifex 8 July 2020

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The Weekly Francis – 01 July 2020

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 8 May 2020 to 1 July 2020.

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Daily Homilies (fervorinos)

Homilies

Messages

Speeches

Papal Tweets

  • “In these difficult times, your work as maritime personnel and fishermen has become even more important. Today I would like to offer you a message of hope, comfort and consolation. #SeafarersAreKeyWorkers Message” @Pontifex 25 June 2020
  • “Let us begin anew from the numerous examples of generous, freely-given love, which in these months have shown us how much closeness, care, and sacrifice are needed to nourish fraternity and civil coexistence. In this way, we will emerge from this crisis stronger.” @Pontifex 25 June 2020
  • “Only those who see with the heart see things well, because they know how to “look into” each person: to see a brother or sister apart from his or her mistakes, hope amid difficulty. They see God everywhere.” @Pontifex 26 June 2020
  • “If you are looking for meaning in life but, not finding one, you throw yourself away with ”imitations of love“, such as wealth, career, pleasure, or an addiction, let Jesus look at you, and you will discover you have always been loved.” @Pontifex 27 June 2020
  • “Jesus says to His disciples: “Whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me” (Mt 10:38). There is no true love without the cross, without a personal price to pay. When borne with Jesus, the cross is not scary because He’s always at our side to help us.” @Pontifex 28 June 2020
  • “God’s generous gratitude takes into account even the smallest gesture of love and service given to our brothers and sisters. Jesus teaches us this in #TheGospelOfTheDay (Mt 10:42).” @Pontifex 28 June 2020
  • “I invite everyone to pray for the people of Yemen, especially children, who are suffering as a result of the very serious humanitarian crisis, and for those affected by the severe floods in Western Ukraine.” @Pontifex 28 June 2020
  • “On the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, I would like to share two key words: unity and prophecy. The Lord asks each of us: “Do you want to be a builder of unity? Do you want to be a prophet of my heaven on earth?” Let’s find the courage to answer: “Yes, I do!”” @Pontifex 29 June 2020
  • “Just as the Lord transformed Simon into Peter, so He calls each one of us, to make us living stones with which to build a renewed Church and a renewed humanity.” @Pontifex 29 June 2020
  • “The proud Saul became Paul, a name that means “small”. The Lord shook him. He shattered Paul’s illusion of being respectably religious to make him His instrument. Homily” @Pontifex 29 June 2020
  • “Today we are united in a special way with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Peter and Andrew were brothers. Whenever possible, we exchange fraternal visits on our respective feast days, as we journey together towards the goal that the Lord desires: full unity.” @Pontifex 29 June 2020
  • “Today the Fourth Conference of the European Union and the United Nations to “support the future of Syria and the region” takes place. Let us pray for this meeting, so that it might place above everything the good of peoples who need food, health care, education, work.” @Pontifex 30 June 2020
  • “Today we commemorate the first martyrs of the Church of Rome. They have left us an inheritance to protect and imitate: the Gospel of love and mercy. The Christian martyrs of every period are men and women of peace, despite persecution.” @Pontifex 30 June 2020
  • “Evil never gives peace. It causes frenzy first then leaves bitterness. Instead, God’s voice never promises cheap, easily acquired joy. He invites us to go beyond our ego to find that true good: peace.” @Pontifex 1 July 2020

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