Pope Francis Quotes About Today

• Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests.

  Pope Francis

  Today, Praying, Priesthood

• A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Catholic

• Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

  Pope Francis

  People, Suffering, Lack Of Love

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

• Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.

  Pope Francis

  Journey, Brotherhood, Church

• How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

  Pope Francis

  The End Of The Day, Would Be, Charity

• Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Order, Two

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

• Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

  Pope Francis

  War, World, Today

  "Read an Excerpt of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's 'The Field of Fight'". abcnews.go.com. July 10, 2016.

• How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

  Pope Francis

  Idols, Today, Poverty

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.109, SPCK

• Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Light, Darkness

  Pope Francis (2013). “I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope”, p.37, Paulist Press

• Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others. To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love, is to open up a horizon of hope; it is to let a shaft of light break through the heavy clouds; it is to bring the warmth of hope!

  Pope Francis

  Love Is, Men, Clouds

  Pope Francis' Homily for inaugural Mass of Petrine Ministry, w2.vatican.va. March 19, 2013.

• The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.

  Pope Francis

  Bangs, Doe, World

  "Pope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are real and God is not 'a magician with a magic wand'" by Adam Withnall, www.independent.co.uk. October 28, 2014.

• This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to love Him! The best way to love Him in return is to open our hearts and let Him love us. Let Him draw close to us and feel Him close to us. This is really very difficult: letting ourselves be loved by Him. And that is perhaps what we need to ask today in the Mass: 'Lord, I want to love You, but teach me the difficult science, the difficult habit of letting myself be loved by You, to feel You close and feel Your tenderness ! May the Lord give us this grace.

  Pope Francis

  Letting Go, Love You, Heart

• Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Attitude, Selfish

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

• Today is [the feast of] Santa Rita, Patron Saint of impossible things - but this seems impossible: let us ask of her this grace, this grace that all, all, all people would do good and that we would encounter one another in this work, which is a work of creation, like the creation of the Father. A work of the family, because we are all children of God, all of us, all of us! And God loves us, all of us! May Santa Rita grant us this grace, which seems almost impossible. Amen.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, Impossible Things

• Today, there are those who say that marriage is out of fashion... They say that it is not worth making a life-long commitment, making a definitive decision, ‘for ever’, because we do not know what tomorrow will bring. I ask you, instead, to be revolutionaries, I ask you to swim against the tide; yes, I am asking you to rebel against this culture that sees everything as temporary and that ultimately believes you are incapable of responsibility, that believes you are incapable of true love.

  Pope Francis

  Fashion, Believe, Commitment

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

• The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.

  Pope Francis

  Challenges, Information, Today

  Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the 49th World Communications Day, w2.vatican.va. January 23, 2015.

• How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Passing On, Grandparent

• The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, World, Today

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.92, SPCK

• We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

  Pope Francis

  People, Suffering, Doe

• Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.

  Pope Francis

  Powerful, Mean, Law

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

• The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Faithful, Church

  Pope Francis (2017). “The Works of Mercy”, p.15, Orbis Books

• Today we celebrate Earth Day. I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is an environment to be safeguarded, a garden to be cultivated. The relationship of mankind with nature must not be conducted with greed, manipulation and exploitation, but it must conserve the divine harmony that exists between creatures and Creation within the logic of respect and care, so it can be put to the service of our brothers, also of future generations.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Eye, Garden

• Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Reality, Elderly

• The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.

  Pope Francis

  Communication, Media, People

  Pope Francis' Message For The 49th World Communications Day, w2.vatican.va. January 23, 2015.

• All walls fall. Today, tomorrow or in 100 years, they will fall. It's not a solution. The wall isn't a solution. In this moment, Europe is in difficult, it's true. We have to be intelligent, and whoever comes...that migrant flow. It's not easy to find solutions, but with dialogue between nations they should be found. Walls are never solutions. But bridges are, always, always.

  Pope Francis

  Wall, Fall, Intelligent

  "Pope Francis: ‘I’m not a star, but the servant of servants of God’". Press conference, Vatican, en.radiovaticana.va. September 28, 2015.

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