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Mary is the image and model of all mothers, of their great mission to be guardians of life, of their mission to be teachers of the art of living and of the art of loving.
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Homily
Fifth World Meeting of Families
Valencia, Spain
9 July 2006
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Mary leads the nascent Church in prayer; she is, as it were in person, the Church at prayer. And thus, along with the great community of the saints and at their center, she stands even today before God, interceding for us, asking her Son to send his Spirit once more upon the Church and to renew the face of the earth.
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Homily
Kapellplatz
Alotting, Germany
11 September 2006
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May Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, the lovable consoler of your souls, the sure guide of your will, the support of your footsteps, and a persuasive inspirer of the imitation of Jesus Christ, always come first in your thoughts and affections.
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Address
Blessing of Statue of the Virgin Mary
Monte Mario - Rome
24 June 2010
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Let us invoke the Virgin Mary, so that she may help us faithfully and joyfully carry out the mission which the Risen Lord entrusts to each one.
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Regina Caeli
Easter Monday
Castel Gandolfo
25 April 2011
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Mary tells us that we are all called to open ourselves to the action of the Holy Spirit in order, in our ultimate destiny, to attain an immaculate state, fully and definitively free from evil. She tells us this with her own holiness, with her gaze full of hope and compassion which evokes words such as these: “Do not fear, my child, God loves you; he loves you personally; he thought of you before you came into the world and called you into being to fill you with love and with life; and for this reason he came to meet you, he made himself like you, he became Jesus, God-man, like you in all things but without sin; he gave himself for your sake to the point of dying on the Cross, and thus he gave you a new life, free, holy and immaculate” (cf. Eph 1:3-5).
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Address
Solemnity, the Immaculate Conception
of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8 December 2010
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Mary’s gaze is God’s gaze upon each one of us. She looks at us with the Father’s love itself and blesses us. She acts as our “advocate” and we invoke her thus in the Salve, Regina: Advocata nostra. Even if everyone were to speak badly of us, she, the Mother, would speak well of us because her Immaculate Heart is in tune with God’s mercy.
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Solemnity, the Immaculate Conception
of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8 December 2010
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Lourdes really is a place of light, of prayer, of hope and of conversion ... where pilgrims learn to see the crosses of their own lives in the light of the glorious Cross of Christ.
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General Audience
Paul VI Hall
17 September 2008
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Mary suffers with those who are in affliction, with them she hopes, and she is their comfort, supporting them with her maternal help.
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Homily
World Day of the Sick
2008
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