Angela Sealana's List: Pope Francis

• In everything that has  occurred, the principal agent has been, in the final analysis, the Holy Spirit.
• Your work calls for  careful preparation, sensitivity and experience, like so many other professions,  but it also demands a particular concern for what is true, good and beautiful.  This is something which we have in common, since the Church exists to  communicate precisely this: Truth, Goodness and Beauty “in person”. It should  be apparent that all of us are called not to communicate ourselves, but this  existential triad made up of truth, beauty and goodness.
• These  were jokes. I love all of you very much, I thank you for everything you have  done. I pray that your work will always be serene and fruitful, and that you  will come to know ever better the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the rich reality of  the Church’s life.

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• My thoughts turn with great affection and profound gratitude to my  venerable Predecessor Benedict XVI, who enriched and invigorated the Church  during the years of his Pontificate by his teaching, his goodness, his  leadership, his faith, his humility and his meekness. All this remains as a  spiritual patrimony for us all. The Petrine ministry, lived with total  dedication, found in him a wise and humble exponent, his gaze always firmly on  Christ, the risen Christ, present and alive in the Eucharist.
• We feel that Benedict XVI has kindled a flame deep  within our hearts: a flame that will continue to burn because it will be fed by  his prayers, which continue to sustain the Church on her spiritual and  missionary path.
• The Paraclete  creates all the differences among the Churches, almost as if he were an Apostle  of Babel. But on the other hand, it is he who creates unity from these  differences, not in “equality”, but in harmony.
• The Paraclete, who  gives different charisms to each of us, unites us in this community of the  Church, that worships the Father, the Son, and Him, the Holy Spirit.
• Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness  that the devil offers us every day; let us not yield to pessimism or  discouragement: let us be quite certain that the Holy Spirit bestows upon the  Church, with his powerful breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new  methods of evangelization, so as to bring to Gospel to the uttermost ends of the  earth

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• It is true that going out onto the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But is the Church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age.
• And if I had to choose between a wounded Church that goes out onto the streets and a sick withdrawn Church, I would definitely choose the first one
• We seek to make contact with families that are not involved in the parish.  Instead of just being a Church that welcomes and receives, we try to be a Church that comes out of itself and goes to the men and women who do not participate in parish life, do not know much about it and are indifferent towards it
• we also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.
• Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the Church

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