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God\'s Love
 


God's love has this power: to renew all things, starting from the human heart which is his masterpiece and in which the Holy Spirit best brings about his transforming action.

 
Homily
Pompeii, Italy
19th October 2008

 
 
 
God\'s Love
 


God does not abandon us, that his love reaches us wherever we are and just as we are, in our wretchedness and weakness, in order to offer us a new possibility of good.

 
Letter to the Faithful of Rome
On Educating Young People
21 January 2008

 
 
 
God\'s Love
 


God is One in that He is entirely and solely Love, but precisely because He is Love He is openness, acceptance, dialogue. And in His relations with us, sinful mankind, He is mercy, compassion, grace, forgiveness.

 
Homily
Savona, Italy
17 May 2008

 
 
 
God\'s Love
 


‘I am the Good Shepherd…I lay down my life for my sheep,’ Jesus says of himself (John 10:14,15). It is not power, but love that redeems us! This is God’s sign: he himself is love.

 
Homily
Mass of Inauguration
St. Peter's Square
24 April 2005

 
 
 
God\'s Love
 


God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.

 
Address
Newly Appointed Bishops
19 September 2005

 
 
 
God\'s Love
 


Because God has loved us first and continues to do so, we can respond with love.

 
Encyclical Letter
Deus Caritas Est

 
 
 
God\'s Love
 


It is God who loved us first and made us his adoptive sons in Jesus.
Everything in our lives is a gift of his love; how can we be indifferent before such a great mystery?

 
Homily
Solemnity of All Saints
01 November 2006

 
 
 
God\'s Love
 


Let us look at Christ pierced in the Cross! He is the unsurpassing revelation of God's love.

 
Message for Lent
2007

 

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