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The Cross
 


Christ’s Cross, embraced with love, never leads to sadness but to joy, to the joy of having been saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

 
Homily
24 March 2013

 
 
 
The Cross
 


In the ‘failure’ of the Cross, love is seen; a love that is gratuitous, which Jesus gives us.

 
Angelus Address
22 November 2015

 
 
 
The Cross
 


In the Passion of Christ, we find God’s response to the desperate and at times indignant cry that the experience of pain and death evokes in us. He tells us that we cannot flee from the Cross, but must remain at its foot, as Our Lady did.

 
Homily
7 June 2016

 
 
 
The Cross
 


The Cross of Christ contains all the love of God; there we find his immeasurable mercy. This is a love in which we can place all our trust, in which we can believe.

 
Message for Lent, 2017

 
 
 
The Cross
 


In the Cross, we see the monstrosity of man, when we allow ourselves to be guided by evil; but we also see the immensity of God's mercy who does not treat us according to our sins, but according to His mercy.

 
'Via Crucis'

The Colosseum, Rome

17 April 2014

 
 
 
The Cross
 


There is no cross in our life, big or small, that the Lord does not share with us.

 
Way of the Cross
,
Rio de Janeiro
26 July 2013

 
 
 
The Cross
 


The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us to love that overcomes evil and sin.

 
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The Cross
 


The Word always brings one near to the glorious cross of Christ.

 
Letter
Carmelites, General Chapter
4 September 2013

 

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