Jimmy Akin

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 9 March 2023 to 15 March 2023.

Angelus

• 12 March 2023 – Angelus

General Audiences

• 15 March 2023 – General Audience – Catechesis. The passion for evangelization’ the apostolic zeal of the believer 7. The Second Vatican Council. 2. Being apostles in an apostolic Church

Speeches

• 9 March 2023 – To the Delegation of the ‘Joint Working Group for Dialogue’
• 11 March 2023 – To Participants in the meeting promoted by the ‘Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities’ (SACRU) and the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation

Papal Tweets

• “Almsgiving, practised far from the spotlight, gives peace and hope to the heart. It reveals to us the beauty of giving, which then becomes receiving, and thus enables us to discover a precious secret: our hearts find more joy in giving than in receiving (Acts 20:35). #Lent” @Pontifex, 9 March 2023
• “Fasting helps us to keep our spirit in shape. It makes us appreciate things for their true worth; it reminds us that life must not be made dependent upon the fleeting landscape of the present world. #Lent” @Pontifex, 10 March 2023
• “In this Season of #Lent, let us learn to allow the Holy Spirit to form us so that our #prayer might become a living testimony of God’s tenderness for every person experiencing difficulty.” @Pontifex, 11 March 2023
• “Let us remain united in faith and solidarity with the people who suffer because of war. Let us especially not forget the battered people of Ukraine.” @Pontifex, 12 March 2023
• “Thirsty for love, Jesus quenches our thirst with love. As with the Samaritan woman, he comes to meet us in our daily life, he shares our thirst, he promises us living water that makes eternal life well up within us. #GospelOfTheDay (Jn 4:5–42)” @Pontifex, 12 March 2023
• “Thank you for having accompanied me with your prayers. Please continue to do so.” @Pontifex, 13 March 2023
• “Just as we recognize a tree by its fruit, so a life filled with good deeds is enlightening and carries the fragrance of Christ into the world.” @Pontifex, 14 March 2023
• “The treasure we have received with our Christian vocation, we are obliged to give: it is the dynamic nature of the vocation, the dynamic nature of life.” @Pontifex, 15 March 2023
• “I am close to the people of #Malawi, of Mozambique, and of South Africa, who have been struck in recent days by a powerful cyclone. Let us #PrayTogether for the deceased, the injured, the displaced. May the Lord sustain the families and communities most affected by this disaster.” @Pontifex, 15 March 2023

Papal Instagram

• Franciscus

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 30 January 2023 to 8 March 2023.

Angelus

• 5 March 2023 – Angelus

General Audiences

• 8 March 2023 – General Audience – Catechesis. The passion for evangelization’ the apostolic zeal of the believer. 6. The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. 1. Evangelization as ecclesial service

Letters

• 30 January 2023 – Chirograph of the Holy Father for the new Statutes of the Institute for the Works of Religion

Speeches

• 4 March 2023 – To the Editorial Board of the television program ‘A sua immagine’
• 6 March 2023 – To the Community of the ‘Saint Mary Seminary’ of the diocese of Cleveland, United States of America

Papal Tweets

• “Let us #PrayTogether for those who have suffered because of the wrongs done to them by members of the Church. May they find within the Church herself a concrete response to their pain and suffering. #PrayerIntention #ClickToPray Video” @Pontifex, 2 March 2023
• “Our whole life of faith is a shared experience, for we follow Jesus together. Our Lenten journey is “synodal”, since we travel together along the same path, as disciples of the one Master. #Lent” @Pontifex, 4 March 2023
• “The #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 17:1–9) teaches us how important it is to remain with Jesus. In fact, it is by staying with him that we learn to recognize on his face the luminous beauty of love he gives us, even when it bears the marks of the cross.” @Pontifex, 5 March 2023
• “These past days, my thought has been often gone to the victims of the train accident that happened in Greece. Many were young students. I am praying for the deceased. I am near the wounded and their relatives. May Our Lady comfort them.” @Pontifex, 5 March 2023
• “I am praying for the numerous victims of the shipwreck that took place off of Cutro, near Crotone. I renew my appeal that similar tragedies may not be repeated. Let the human traffickers be stopped so they do not continue to dispose of the lives of so many innocent people!” @Pontifex, 5 March 2023
• “The path of poverty and self-denial (fasting), concern and acts of love for wounded humanity (almsgiving), and familiar dialogue with the Father (prayer) make it possible for us to incarnate a sincere faith, a living hope, and active charity. #Lent” @Pontifex, 6 March 2023
• “In this Season of #Lent, let us exercise interior clarity, placing ourselves before the #WordOfGod in #prayer, so that an advantageous struggle against the evil that enslaves us, a struggle for freedom, may take place within us.” @Pontifex, 7 March 2023
• “Let us #PrayTogether so that #women, every woman, may be respected, protected and esteemed. Violence against women and mothers is violence against God himself, who from a woman, from a mother, took on our human condition.” @Pontifex, 8 March 2023
• “Every baptized person is sent to announce the Good News by loving and serving others. We cannot remain mere spectators. Apostolic zeal impels us to always seek new ways of proclaiming and witnessing to God’s love. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex, 8 March 2023

Papal Instagram

• Franciscus

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 9 February 2023 to 26 February 2023.

Angelus

• 26 February 2023 – Angelus

Speeches

• 9 February 2023 – To a delegation of representatives of the Medical Area of the Health Pastoral Office of the diocese of Rome
• 17 February 2023 – To a group of businesspeople from Mexico
• 18 February 2023 – To participants in Study Day on Siblings with Disabilities
• 23 February 2023 – To a Delegation of the Max Planck Society
• 23 February 2023 – To the Delegation of of priests and monks of the Oriental Orthodox Churches
• 24 February 2023 – To the Members of the ‘Pro Petri Sede’ Association
• 24 February 2023 – Impromptu words of the Holy Father at the end of the screening of the documentary ‘Freedom on Fire’ Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom’
• 25 February 2023 – Inauguration of the Judicial Year of Vatican City State Tribunal
• 25 February 2023 – To Rectors, professors, students and staff of the Roman Pontifical Universities and Institutions

Papal Tweets

• “#Lent is the “favourable time” to return to what is essential, to divest ourselves of all that weighs us down, to be reconciled with God, and to rekindle the fire of the Holy Spirit hidden beneath the ashes of our frail humanity.” @Pontifex, 23 February 2023
• “One year ago the absurd war against Ukraine began. Let us remain close to the tormented Ukrainian people, who continue to suffer, and let us ask ourselves: has everything possible been done to stop the war? Peace built on rubble will never be a true victory.” @Pontifex, 24 February 2023
• “During #Lent we are called to respond to God’s gift by accepting his word, which is “living and active” (Heb 4:12). Regular listening to the #WordOfGod makes us open and docile to his working and bears fruit in our lives.” @Pontifex, 25 February 2023
• “I renew my appeal to make dialogue prevail over hatred and vengeance in the Holy Land, and I pray to God for Palestinians and Israelis, that they may find the path to fraternity and peace, with the help of the international community.” @Pontifex, 26 February 2023
• “Let’s #PrayTogether for the people of Burkina Faso, so that the violence they have suffered does not make them lose faith in the path of democracy, justice and peace.” @Pontifex, 26 February 2023
• “Jesus teaches us to repel the attacks of the devil who, as his name says, wants to sow division in us, between us and God, between us and others. How do we repel him? Not by negotiating with him, but by opposing him in faith with the divine word. #GospelOfToday (Mt 4:1–11)” @Pontifex, 26 February 2023
• “Let’s #PrayTogether also for the victims of the shipwreck this morning, off the Calabrian coast, including many children, and for the other surviving migrants. I thank those who have brought relief and are providing shelter.” @Pontifex, 26 February 2023

Papal Instagram

• Franciscus