Thanks

18h Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex As we end this year, let us remember the days, weeks and months we have lived in order to give thanks and offer everything to the Lord.

Family

Holy Family of Nazareth, help us all to recognize the sacred nature of the family and its beauty in God’s plan for humanity.

Gaze

Let us be touched by the tenderness that saves. Let us draw close to God who draws close to us. Let us pause to gaze upon the crib.

Poor

God, who is in love with us, draws us to himself with his tenderness, by being born poor and frail in our midst, as one of us.

Light

Christmas has above all a taste of hope because, for all the darkness in our lives, God’s light shines forth.

St Stephen

On today’s Feast of Saint Stephen let us remember the martyrs of today and yesterday. May we overcome evil with good and hatred with love.

Rejoice

Christ is born for us, let us rejoice in the day of our salvation!

Shepherds

Like the shepherds of Bethlehem, may we too, with eyes full of amazement and wonder, gaze upon the Child Jesus, the Son of God

Journey

The Lord becomes man to journey with us in our everyday lives.

Burden

The birthday of Jesus, who took on the burden of our human weakness, is drawing closer.

Joy

Mercy gives rise to joy, because our hearts are opened to the hope of a new life.

Tranforms

Mercy is the concrete action of God’s love that, by forgiving, transforms and changes our lives.

Repent

Nothing of what a repentant sinner places before God’s mercy can be excluded from the embrace of his forgiveness.

Migrants

6hPope Francis‏ @Pontifex

I express my solidarity with migrants around the world and thank all those who help them: welcoming others means welcoming God in person!

Confidence

Our joy comes from the confidence we have that the Lord is close to us with his tenderness, mercy, forgiveness and love.

Birthday

10hPope Francis‏ @Pontifex

I thank you all for your kindness. Please do not forget to pray for me.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the most visible sign of the Father’s love, which Jesus sought to reveal by his entire life.

Primacy

The love of God, which can look into the heart of each person and see the deepest desire hidden there, must take primacy over all else.

Now

Now is the time to unleash the creativity of mercy, to bring about new undertakings, the fruit of grace.

Past

Today I would like each of us to reflect on his and her own past and the gifts received from the Lord.

Americans

8hPope Francis‏ @Pontifex

On this Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, let us entrust to her the American peoples and the mission of the Church on that continent.

Hope

May Advent be a time of hope. We go to encounter the Lord who comes to encounter us.

Fundamental

Let us all work decisively so that no one is excluded from the effective recognition of their fundamental human rights.

Genocide

Let us pray for all the victims of genocide and work together so that this crime never happens again in the world.

Receiving

Let us learn from the Blessed Mother how to have a humble heart capable of receiving God’s gifts.

Proselytism

15h Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex The Church does not grow through proselytism, but by attraction.

Meaning

Jesus gives meaning to my life here on earth and hope for the life to come

Essentials

Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex Jesus teaches us always to go to the essentials and to take on our own mission with responsibility.

Prepare

Advent is a time to prepare our hearts to receive Christ, our Saviour and hope.

Missionaries

Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex We are all called to go out as missionaries and bring the message of God’s love to every person in every area of life.

Trafficking

I call on all people of goodwill to take action against human trafficking and new forms of slavery.

Charles de Foucauld

Today we remember Blessed Charles de Foucauld who said, faith calls us to see Jesus in every human being.