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Impresionante discurso del Papa León XIV esta noche en Montevideo en la Vigilia de oración en el Estadio Centenario. De esos que merece la pena leer completos, guardar y meditar. Algunas frases extraordinarias:
«Dios escogió Belén, y esa elección basta para que no identifiquemos pequeñez con insignificancia».
«La vida se llena de ocupaciones, afectos, proyectos y distracciones, hasta que la ausencia de Dios deja de sentirse como ausencia».
«Cuando se pretende construir un mundo sin Dios, se corre el riesgo de dejar también al hombre sin lugar».
«¡No le teman al “para siempre”! Matrimonios, abran su casa a la vida, incluso cuando el mundo les diga que un hijo es una carga».
«Cuando ser justo y honrado tenga un precio, páguenlo. Cuando perdonar parezca una derrota, perdonen».
«Necesitamos custodiar a Cristo en el centro de nuestra vida mediante la oración, la Misa, la Confesión y la lectura meditada del Evangelio. Todos hemos de volver una y otra vez a ser discípulos».
«Para iluminar mucho no hace falta ser muchos, sino reflejar la luz del Señor».
«¡Sean santos! No se conformen con una vida simplemente correcta ni con una fe de costumbre que se contente con lo indispensable. No le den a Dios solamente una parte de ustedes, ¡dense por completo!».
«Cristo no nos llamó a la mediocridad, nos llamó a una vida nueva y plena como la suya».
Y una frase preciosa para terminar:
«¡Que se note que hemos estado en Belén! Que se note que Cristo vive y que encontrarse con Él hace la diferencia».
Qué maravilla de discurso. Qué claridad para hablar de las exigencias de la vida cristiana y qué manera de recordar que la fe no consiste simplemente en ser buenas personas, sino en entregarse por completo a Jesucristo.
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#PapaEnUruguay #ViajeApostolico
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The Biblical apocalypse culminates in the revelation of the Lamb of God as the meaning of all history and the one in whom history is redeemed. When the dust of history finally settles and all the sin, death, and satanism that bring so much to ruin, the one reality that remains is the Lamb in whom there is redemption and restoration. Secular apocalypticism posits false ideologies as redemptive and salvific, all of which culminate in destruction and totalitarianism. Such a vision of history is always nihilistic, and all the claims that it is not nihilism, are false and empty promises. It drives its nihilism forward with sin, death and satanism, but these will be masked by virtue and justified by righteous intentions. In the biblical understanding of apocalypse the Lamb is the sacrifice, once and for all, in the secularist understanding the sacrifice is you and all of humanity.
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Holiness is not a privilege reserved for a few, but a universal vocation that speaks to each of us where we live. This is the hope-filled message of today’s feast: God sees the good that we do not see, knows stories that we do not know, and reaches hearts to which we have no access.
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This is precisely what it means to “give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s”: to be truthful, free from servile fear or hypocrisy, free to do good. Let us pray to the Lord to help us live in this way. #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 22:15-21)
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Great job by this theology professor! The Bible is not silent on abortion because the Bible is clear on the sanctity of human life and the value of children.
James Talarico used faith to defend the destruction of innocent lives. He cannot be trusted to lead.
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Friends, Fulton Sheen was a fierce voice against communism, recognizing its threat and its essential atheism. He would be deeply troubled by its comeback in our country.
While in St. Louis, I shared with Fox why we need that voice again today. Read it below:
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Gospel of the Day (John 11,19-27)
Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother [Lazarus, who had died].
When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home.
Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."
Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise."
Martha said to him, "I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day."
Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,
and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world."
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In 1979, not long before he died, Archbishop Fulton Sheen gave his final interview to Marie Torre of WABC. The 5 most important things he said in the interview were....
1. Modern erotic culture is a failure of purpose, not merely a failure of rules.
2. The family depends on sacrificial love, not mutual self-satisfaction.
3. The human heart wants life, truth, and love in an absolute form; this desire points to God.
4. The Church cannot become credible by copying the world.
5. Children require moral formation, not permissive abandonment disguised as freedom.
When he gave this interview, no one knew it would be his. Let us never forget his wisdom.
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Today, the U.S. bishops consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
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Pope Leo XIV says “I never wanted to be be Pope, not when I was younger and not when I was older, but when the Lord calls you have to say yes”
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Every truly just society is built upon the recognition of the inviolable dignity of the human person. Such dignity precedes any concession by the State and cannot be subordinated to shifting social consensus. It belongs to every human being by the very fact of their existence, and for this reason, it must guide every positive legal system. When this conviction remains alive, the law becomes a safeguard for all and a guarantee against the imposition of particular interests and agendas. #ApostolicJourney
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The Gospel is much more than a book: it is Christ Himself, the Good News for humanity that is confused, deceived, and disappointed by many evils. He satisfies our thirst for justice and truth, and He instills in us the courage to persevere in doing good and to place ourselves personally at the service of our neighbor.
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In the Mystery of God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – we are at home, just as Nicodemus felt at ease when he was in Jesus’ presence. The life of God is marvelous and captivating. It gives peace to our heart, which is often very restless, and it allows us to encounter our brothers and sisters in the joy of the Spirit. #GospelOfTheDay (Jn 3:16-18)
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True #Peace begins in a heart that loves. It is witnessed to by lips that speak words of reconciliation. It is reflected in eyes that look upon the world with gentleness and wisdom. Only the strength of truth and love is true strength. Whoever trusts in God understands this proclamation of peace and becomes an instrument of peace, building it with their own hands.
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“No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins.
“Indeed, Christ's love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Friends, on Good Friday, we commemorate the passion and crucifixion of our Lord.
The Father sent his Son into godforsakenness, into the morass of sin and death—not because he delighted in seeing his Son suffer but because he wanted him to bring the divine light to the darkest place.
By enduring the pain of the cross, Jesus did indeed bear our sins; by his stripes, we were indeed healed.
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Jesus is God’s response to our thirst. The encounter with him stirs in the depths of each person “a spring of water gushing up to eternal life” (Jn 4:14). How many people in the entire world are searching even today for this spiritual spring! #GospelOfTheDay
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Throughout the centuries, the Gospel has permeated the structures, standards, and ways of acting and thinking of the civilizations it has entered. It has done so not through violent revolution, but through peaceful transformation from within—through consciences and the conversion of hearts.





















