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Listening to God
 


For God to dwell in us, we need to listen to him; we must allow his Word to challenge us every day, meditating upon it in our hearts after the example of Mary (cf. Lk 2:51). In this way we grow in friendship with him, we learn to understand what he expects from us and we are encouraged to make him known to others.

 
Homily
Expo Bicentenario Park
León, Cuba
25 March 2012

 
 
 
Listening to God
 


For God to dwell in us, we need to listen to him; we must allow his Word to challenge us every day, meditating upon it in our hearts after the example of Mary (cf. Lk 2:51). In this way we grow in friendship with him, we learn to understand what he expects from us and we are encouraged to make him known to others.

 
Homily
Expo Bicentenario Park
León, Cuba
25 March 2012

 
 
 
Listening to God
 


Turning in prayer to Mary, let us recognize in her the human creature transfigured within by Christ's grace and entrust ourselves to her guidance, to walk joyfully on our path through Lent.

 
Angelus Address
Second Sunday of Lent
St Peter's Square
17 February 2008

 
 
 
Listening to God
 


God's love grows in us if we are really united to him in prayer and in listening to his word, with openness of heart.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
16 September 2009

 
 
 
Listening to God
 


It is important for us today… to know how to make silence within us, to listen to God's voice, to seek, as it were, a "parlor" in which God speaks with us. Learning the word of God in prayer and in meditation is the path to life.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
9 September 2009

 
 
 
Listening to God
 


The Virgin Mary herself, among all human creatures the closest to God, still had to walk day after day in a pilgrimage of faith, constantly guarding and meditating on in her heart the Word that God addressed to her through Holy Scripture and through the events of the life of her Son, in whom she recognized and welcomed the Lord's mysterious voice.
And so, this is the gift and duty for each one of us ...to listen to Christ, like Mary. To listen to him in his Word, contained in Sacred Scripture. To listen to him in the events of our lives, seeking to decipher in them the messages of Providence. Finally, to listen to him in our brothers and sisters, especially in the lowly and the poor, to whom Jesus himself demands our concrete love. To listen to Christ and obey his voice: this is the principle way, the only way that leads to the fullness of joy and of love.

 
Marian shrine of Mariazell
Austria
8 September 2007