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The Father
 


Jesus called God ‘Abba’. The word means ...‘Father’. Yet, it is not the usual form of the word ‘father’, but rather a children’s word, and affectionate name which one would not have dared to use in speaking to God. It is the language of the one who is truly a ‘child’, the Son of the Father, the one who is conscious of being in communion with God, in deepest union with him.

 
Homily
Mass of the Last Supper
Basilica of St John Lateran
5 April 2012

 
 
 
The Father
 


Through Christ we know God truly. 'No one has ever seen God, ' says St. John. The one 'who is close to the Father's heart...has made him known.' Now we see God as he truly is: he is Father, and this is an absolute goodness to which we can entrust ourselves.

 
Homily
Mass of the Last Supper
Basilica of St John Lateran
5 April 2012

 
 
 
The Father
 


The humility, poverty, even the ignominy of the Passion, enable us to know what God is truly like. The Face of the Son faithfully reveals that of the Father.

 
Homily

Feast of the Epiphany

St Peter's Basilica

6 January 2006

 
 
 
The Father
 


The splendor of the face of God, shining upon us and granting us peace, is the manifestation of his fatherhood: the Lord turns his face to us, he reveals himself as our Father and grants us peace.

 
Homily
Solemnity of Mary,
Mother of God
Vatican Basilica
1 January 2013

 
 
 
The Father
 


The Lord is our good and provident Father, who gives his children their heritage and lavishes life-giving food upon all. God who created the heavens and the earth and the great heavenly bodies, who entered human history to bring all his children to salvation is the God who fills the universe with his presence of goodness, caring for life and providing bread.

 
General Audience
St. Peter's Square
19 October 2011

 
 
 
The Father
 


In Jesus, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we can address God ... with the trust and abandonment of children who turn to a Father who loves them with an infinite love.

 
General Audience
St. Peter's Square
2 May 2012

 
 
 
The Father
 


God is the Merciful Father, who, in Jesus loves us beyond all measure.

 
Homily
Chapel of the Merciful Father
18 March 2007

 
 
 
The Father
 


Jesus has revealed to us that man is essentially a “son”, a creature who lives in the relationship with God the Father, and in this way in relationship with all his brothers and sisters. Man is not fulfilled in an absolute autonomy, deceiving himself that he is God but, on the contrary, by recognizing himself as a child, an open creature, reaching out to God and to his brethren in whose faces he discovers the image of their common Father.

 
Homily
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
18 May 2008

 

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