In the #GospelOfTheDay (cf. Lk 12:32-48) Jesus urges us not to keep the gifts God has given us for ourselves, but to use them generously for the good of others, especially those who need our help most.

Faith does not spare us from the possibility of sin, but it always offers us a way out of it, which is the way of mercy. #GeneralAudience vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Mary, whom the Risen Christ took with Him body and soul into glory, shines as an icon of hope for her children on our pilgrimage across history.

As we journey, especially when clouds gather and the road becomes uncertain and difficult, let us lift up our eyes and gaze upon our Blessed Mother, so that we may discover the hope that does not disappoint (cf. Rom 5:5).

Mary's song, the Magnificat, strengthens the hope of the humble, those who hunger, God's hard-working servants. Those who bear witness to tenderness and forgiveness in places of conflict, and all peacemakers who build bridges in a broken world, are the joy of the Church. They are

Today we wish to entrust our prayer for peace to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, assumed into heaven. As a Mother, she suffers for the evils that afflict her children, especially the little ones and the weak.

In proclaiming the dogma of the Assumption, while the tragic experience of the Second World War was still painfully present, Pius XII wrote, “We may hope that those who meditate upon the glorious example Mary offers us may be more and more convinced of the value of a human life.”

How timely these words remain! Even today, sadly, we feel powerless before the spread of violence in the world — a violence increasingly deaf and insensitive to any stirring of humanity. Yet we must not cease to hope: God is greater than the sin of human beings. We must not

From the outside, the Church, like any human reality, may seem rough around the edges. However, her divine reality is revealed when we cross her threshold and find acceptance. Our poverty, vulnerability, and especially failures are finally embraced by the gentle strength of God,

Only together, only by becoming one Body in which even the most fragile participate with full dignity, are we the Body of Christ, the Church of God. This happens when the fire that Jesus came to bring burns away the prejudices, cautions, and fears that still marginalize those who

I am close to the peoples of Pakistan, India, and Nepal who have been struck by violent floods. I pray for the victims, for their families, and for all those who suffer because of this calamity.

Let us pray that efforts to bring wars to an end and to promote peace may bear fruit, and that in negotiations the common good of peoples may always be placed first.

How many relationships are broken, how many stories become complicated, how many unspoken words remain suspended. And yet the Gospel shows us that there is always a way to continue to love, even when everything seems irredeemably compromised.

To forgive does not mean to deny evil, but to prevent it from generating further evil. It is not to say that nothing has happened, but to do everything possible to ensure that resentment does not determine the future.

When the light of forgiveness succeeds in filtering through the deepest crevices of the heart, we understand that it is never futile. Even if the other does not accept it, even if it seems to be in vain, forgiveness frees those who give it: it dispels resentment, it restores

I invite all the faithful to take part in a day of fasting and prayer on August 22, imploring the Lord to grant us peace and justice, and to wipe away the tears of those who suffer because of ongoing armed conflicts. May Mary, Queen of Peace, intercede so that peoples may find

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Today we celebrate the memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven, also invoked as Queen of Peace. Let us fast and pray to implore the Lord for the gift of peace. Let us #PrayTogether that hearts may be freed from hatred, that we may move beyond the logic of division

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