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Jesus Christ
 


Christ... tells us who man truly is and what a man must do in order to be truly human. He shows us the way, and this way is the truth. He himself is both the way and the truth, and therefore he is also the life which all of us are seeking. He also shows us the way beyond death; only someone able to do this is a true teacher of life.

 
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
Spe Salvi

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


Jesus is the Truth that makes us free to love. Let us not fear! By dying, the Lord saved sinners, in other words, all of us

 
The Lord's Passion
WAY OF THE CROSS AT COLOSSEUM
21 March 2008

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


"The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness did not receive it."
As in the past, the tragedy of the rejection of Christ unfortunately manifests and expresses itself also today in so many different ways. Perhaps even the most subtle and dangerous are the forms of the rejection of God in the contemporary era: from a clear refusal to indifference, from scientific atheism to the presentation of a so-called modernized or better, post-modernized Jesus. A man Jesus, reduced in a different way to a mere man of his time, deprived of his divinity; or a Jesus so highly idealized that he seems at times like the character of a fable. Yet Jesus, the true Jesus of history, is true God and true man and never tires of proposing his Gospel to all.

 
General Audience
3 January 2007

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


To know Jesus is to know God. In Jesus, the eternal Son, God takes on a human face.

 
General Audience
6 September 2006

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


Let us seek Jesus, let us be drawn to his light which dispels sadness and fear from every human heart. Let us draw near to him with confidence.

 
URBI ET ORBI MESSAGE
Christmas 2008

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


The grace of God has appeared to all. Jesus – the face of the "God who saves", did not show himself only for a certain few, but for everyone… He came for all: Jews and Gentiles, rich and poor, those near and those far away, believers and non-believers… for everyone. Supernatural grace, by God’s will, is meant for every creature.

 
URBI ET ORBI MESSAGE
Christmas 2008

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


The Church is called to live these hours, making the Virgin Mary's sentiments her own. With her, the Church is invited to keep her gaze fixed on the Infant Jesus, the new Sun rising on the horizon of humanity and, comforted by his light, to take care to present to him "the joy and the hope, the grief and the anguish of the people of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted". (Gaudium et Spes, n. 1).

 
TE DEUM AND FIRST VESPERS
Homily, St Peter's Basilica
31 December 2006

 

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