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Peace
 


God, who is perfect and subsisting Love, has revealed himself in Jesus, embracing our human condition. In this way he has also pointed out to us the way of peace: dialogue, forgiveness, solidarity.
This is the only path that leads to true peace.

 
Angelus Address
St. Peter's Squre
1 January 2006

 
 
 
Peace
 


‘Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.’(Ephesians 1:2)
Grace is the power that transforms man and the world; peace is the mature fruit of this transformation. Christ is grace; Christ is peace.

 
Homily
Ephesus
29 November, 2006

 
 
 
Peace
 


The Risen Jesus spoke to his disciples … a greeting and even more… an announcement of his victory: "Peace be with you!" Peace is the gift that Christ left his friends (cf. Jn 14: 27) as a blessing destined for all men and women and all peoples. It is not a peace according to a "worldly" mentality, as equilibrium of forces, but a new reality, fruit of God's Love, of his Mercy. It is the peace that Jesus Christ earned by the price of his Blood and communicates to those who trust in him.

 
REGINA CĆLI
Second Sunday of Easter,
15 April 2007

 
 
 
Peace
 


At the start of the New Year, then, I extend to every disciple of Christ and to every person of good will a warm invitation to expand their hearts to meet the needs of the poor and to take whatever practical steps are possible in order to help them. The truth of the axiom cannot be refuted: to fight poverty is to build peace.

 
Message for the 42nd World Day of Peace,
1 January 2009.

 

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