A kind of breviary of reflections for each day of the year from the Pope’s various writings. Taken from the book, Co-Workers Of The Truth (Ignatius)
Christmas beckons us to enter into God’s silence; and his mystery remains unknown to so many because they cannot find the silence in which God is active. How can we find it? Absense of words alone does not yet produce it. For a person may well remain silent outwardly, while inside he is completely...
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There is one thing that stands out on this birthday of the Light, on this entrance procession of goodness into the world, and it fills us again and again with the nagging doubt whether those great things we talk about have really happened there in the stable of Bethlehem. Look at the sun, it...
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“Rejoice! And I say it again, rejoice!” The notion of joy is altogether fundamental to Christianity, which by its very nature is and claims to be evangelium, gospel, joyful news. Yet it is true: the world mistrusts the gospel, mistrusts Christs on this very point, and it abandons the Church because Christianity would deprive...
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