Selected quotes of Pope Francis offered daily for prayer and reflection�€ï¿½.

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Mary, Mother of Jesus
 


By following Mary’s example, may we all discover that every soul that believes and hopes ’conceives and begets the Word of God’.

 
General Audience
5 February 2025

 
 
 
Mary, Mother of Jesus
 


The smallness of Mary was her invincible strength: it was she who remained at the foot of the cross, while the illusion of a triumphant Messiah was being shattered.

 
General Audience
22 May 2024

 
 
 
Mary, Mother of Jesus
 


Mary welcomes the Word in her own flesh and thus launches the greatest mission ever entrusted to a woman, to a human creature.

 
General Audience
22 January 2025

 
 
 
Mary, Mother of Jesus
 


Mary was the first of her Son’s disciples and in moments of difficulty she kept alive the hope of the apostles.

 
Homily
11 July 2015

 
 
 
Mary, Mother of Jesus
 


Today, as we gaze upon the image of the Christ Child nestled in his Mother's arms, let us rejoice in the profound truth that God, in his infinite love, has become one with us.

 
Homily
1st January 2024

 
 
 
Mary, Mother of Jesus
 


The motherhood of Mary is the path leading us to the paternal tenderness of God, the closest, most direct and easiest of paths.

 
Homily
1st January 2024

 
 
 
Mary, Mother of Jesus
 


May Mary, who gave Jesus her whole life, teach us to make everything an instrument of love.

 
Angelus Address
4 August 2024

 
 
 
Mary, Mother of Jesus
 


The Holy Mother of God is the mediatrix of the grace that always and only flows through Jesus Christ, by the action of the Holy Spirit.

 
Vespers
5 August 2024

 

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