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The Church is called to be the house of the Father, with doors always wide open. One concrete sign of such openness is that our church doors should always be open, so that if someone, moved by the Spirit, comes there looking for God, he or she will not find a closed door.
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Apostolic Exhortation
'The Joy of the Gospel'
Evangelii Gaudium
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A Church which “goes forth” is a Church whose doors are open. Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world. Often it is better simply to slow down, to put aside our eagerness in order to see and listen to others, to stop rushing from one thing to another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way. At times we have to be like the father of the prodigal son, who always keeps his door open so that when the son returns, he can readily pass through it.
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Apostolic Exhortation
'The Joy of the Gospel'
Evangelii Gaudium
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The church is the totality of God’s people.
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Interview with
Fr. Antonio Spadaro S.J.
for 'La Civiltà Cattolica'
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We are called to show that the church is the home of all, where people, whatever their situation in life, can enter.
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48TH WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
24 January 2014
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Maranatha, an expression composed of two Aramaic words which, according to how they are pronounced, may be understood as a supplication: “Come, Lord!”, or as a certainty nourished by faith: “Yes, the Lord is coming, the Lord is near”. The whole of Christian revelation culminates in this exclamation, at the conclusion of the marvelous contemplation which is offered to us by John in Revelation (cf. 22:20).
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General Audience
St. Peter's Square
11 December 2013
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Jesus has called us to belong to a new family: his Church, to this family of God, walking together on the path of the Gospel.
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Angelus Address
St. Peter's Square
17 March 2013
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Let us go forth, then, let us go forth to offer everyone the life of Jesus Christ. Here I repeat for the entire Church what I have often said to the priests and laity of Buenos Aires: I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security. I do not want a Church concerned with being at the centre and which then ends by being caught up in a web of obsessions and procedures. If something should rightly disturb us and trouble our consciences, it is the fact that so many of our brothers and sisters are living without the strength, light and consolation born of friendship with Jesus Christ, without a community of faith to support them, without meaning and a goal in life. More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: “Give them something to eat” (Mk 6:37).
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Apostolic Exhortation
'The Joy of the Gospel'
Evangelii Gaudium
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In the school of the Mother, the Church learns to become each day the “handmaid of the Lord”, to be ready to set out to meet the situations of greatest need, to be attentive to the little ones and the excluded. But we are all called to live this service of love in ordinary situations, that is, in the family, in the parish, at work, with our neighbors.... It is everyday love, ordinary charity.
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Homily
Old Romagnoli Stadium
Campobasso, Italy
5 July 2014
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