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Jesus Christ
 


Without love, even the most important activities lose their value and give no joy. Without a profound meaning, all our activities are reduced to sterile and unorganized activism. And who, if not Jesus Christ, gives us Love and Truth?

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
18 July 2010

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


Faith does not run counter to your highest ideals; on the contrary, it elevates and perfects those ideals. Do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love; do not be satisfied with anything less than Christ.

 
Address, Prayer Vigil
World Youth Day
Madrid, Spain
20th August 2011

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


The Gospel ends with the words: ‘He who hears you, hears me’. What an admonition! What an examination of conscience those words are! Is it true that those who hear me are really listening to the Lord? Let us work and pray so that it may be ever truer, that those who hear us hear Christ.

 
Homily
Redemptoris Mater Chapel
Apostolic Palace
6 October 2006

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


How many people also in our time are in search of God, in search of Jesus…and are waiting for a "sign" that will touch their minds and their hearts! Today, as then, the Evangelist reminds us that the only "sign" is: Jesus raised on the Cross. Jesus, who died and rose, is the absolutely sufficient sign. Through him we can understand the truth about life and obtain salvation.

 
Homily
Parish of 'Dio Padre Misericordioso'
Rome
26 March 2006

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


Lord, we thank you because for our sake you opened your heart; because in your death and in your resurrection you became the source of life.

 
Homily
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
St Peter's Square
11 June 2010

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


The…crucifix… serves as a reminder that Christ, our eternal high priest, daily unites our own sacrifices, our own sufferings, our own needs, hopes and aspirations, to the infinite merits of his sacrifice. Through him, with him, and in him, we lift up our own bodies as a sacrifice holy and acceptable to God (cf. Rom 12:1). In this sense we are caught up in his eternal oblation, completing, as Saint Paul says, in our flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, the Church (cf. Col 1:24).

 
Homily
Westminster Cathedral
London, England
18 September 2010

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


God is our origin and our destination, and Jesus the way.

 
Address
St. Joseph's Seminary
New York
19 April 2008

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


We are celebrating the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and in the liturgy we peer, as it were, into the heart of Jesus opened in death by the spear of the Roman soldier. Jesus’ heart was indeed opened for us and before us – and thus God’s own heart was opened.

 
Homily
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
St Peter's Square
11 June 2010

 

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