Let Jesus preach to you, and and let Jesus heal you. We are all wounded. Everyone.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the universal need for healing and guidance from a higher power.
Pope Francis reminds us that everyone carries wounds, whether they are emotional, spiritual, or physical. By inviting Jesus to preach and heal us, we acknowledge our vulnerabilities and open ourselves to the transformative power of faith and love that can heal our deepest pains.
In practice
In a church sermon discussing the power of faith in overcoming life's challenges.
We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.
I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly heard in academic, business or professional, and even ecclesial circles. While it is quite true that the essential vocation and mission of the lay faithful is to strive that earthly realities and all human activity may be transformed by the Gospel, none of us can think we are exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice
We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
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