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

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To love
 


God calls us to reject anything that discriminates, excludes, or discards people; and instead, to promote in our communities and neighborhoods a strong culture of welcome in which the narrow places of fear and denunciation are replaced by open spaces of encounter, integration, and sharing of life.

 
Homily
6 January 2025

 
 
 
To love
 


This is love: closeness, compassion and tenderness. We can do this without the need for extraordinary means or sophisticated methods, but simply by making our hearts bright with faith, our gazes generous in welcome, our gestures and words full of gentleness and kindness.

 
Homily
6 January 2025

 
 
 
To love
 


We are called to act, to pause before situations of fragility and pain, to know how to listen to the cry of loneliness and anguish; to stoop, to lift up and bring back to life those who fall into the slavery of drugs.

 
General Audience
26 June, 2024

 
 
 
To love
 


Let us not forget to keep 'the little details of love': stopping, drawing near, giving a little attention, a smile, a caress, a word of comfort.

 
'Gaudete et Exsultate'
Apostolic Exhortation

 
 
 
To love
 


We are called to throw open bright windows of proximity to those who are suffering, of forgiveness, of compassion and reconciliation, to make the journey clearer, safe, and possible for all.

 
Angelus Address
5 January 2025

 
 
 
To love
 


Let us start again from this originality of God, which shone in Jesus and which now binds us to serve, to love fraternally, to acknowledge ourselves as small; and to see the least, to listen to them, and to be their voice.

 
Jubilee Audience
11 January 2025

 
 
 
To love
 


The disciples of Jesus Christ must never allow children to be neglected or mistreated, to be deprived of their rights, not to be loved or protected. Christians have the duty to earnestly prevent and firmly condemn violence or abuse against children.

 
General Audience,
8 January2025

 
 
 
To love
 


It is important to fix in our hearts the most important commandment: “Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself”.

 
Angelus Address
3 November 2024

 

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