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Are we often weary, disheartened and sad? Do we feel weighed down by our sins? Do we think that we won't be able to cope?
Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up. There are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive, if only we open ourselves to him.
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Homily
Holy Saturday
Vatican Basilica
30 March 2013
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Before evening falls each one of us can think of the twilight of life: “What will my passing away be like?”. All of us will experience sundown, all of us! Do we look at it with hope? Do we look with that joy at being welcomed by the Lord? This is a Christian thought that gives us hope.
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Homily
Solemnity of All Saints
Cemetery of Verano
1st November 2013
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Do not allow yourselves to be robbed of hope. May we not be robbed of hope, because this strength is a grace, a gift from God which carries us forward with our eyes fixed on heaven.
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Homily
Solemnity of the Assumption
Castel Gandolfo
15 August 2013
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Hope is a little like leaven that expands our souls. There are difficult moments in life, but with hope, the soul goes forward and looks ahead to what awaits us.
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Homily
Solemnity of All Saints
Cemetery of Verano
, Rome
1st November 2013
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Christian hope is not simply a desire or wish, it is not optimism. No! For a Christian, hope is expectation, a fervent, passionate expectation of the ultimate and definitive fulfillment of a mystery: the mystery of the love of God in which we were reborn and are already living.
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General Audience
St Peters Square
15 October 2014
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We find the ancient prayer of blessing which God gave to Moses to hand on to Aaron and his sons: “The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace” (Num 6:24-25). There is no more meaningful time than the beginning of a new year to hear these words of blessing: they will accompany our journey through the year opening up before us. They are words of strength, courage and hope. Not an illusory hope, based on frail human promises, or a naïve hope which presumes that the future will be better simply because it is the future. Rather, it is a hope that has its foundation precisely in God’s blessing, a blessing which contains the greatest message of good wishes there can be; and this is the message which the Church brings to each of us, filled with the Lord’s loving care and providential help.
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Homily
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Vatican Basilica
1st January 2014
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Christian hope is not simply a desire or wish, it is not optimism. No! For a Christian, hope is expectation, a fervent, passionate expectation of the ultimate and definitive fulfillment of a mystery: the mystery of the love of God in which we were reborn and are already living.
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General Audience
St Peters Square
15 Oct 2014
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Let us think about the passing away of so many of our brothers and sisters who have preceded us, let us think about the evening of our life, when it will come. And let us think about our hearts and ask ourselves: “Where is my heart anchored?”. If it is not firmly anchored, let us anchor it beyond, on that shore, knowing that hope does not disappoint because the Lord Jesus does not disappoint.
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Homily
Solemnity of All Saints
Cemetery of Verano
1st November 2013
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