Being A Christian Means Renouncing

Open Your Hearts To The Lord. The Lord Is Waiting For You And The Church Will Welcome You If Your Willingness To Serve Good Is As Clear And Public As Your Choice To Serve Evil Was.

No One Must Use The Name Of God To Commit Violence. To Kill In The Name Of God Is A Grave Sacrilege. To Discriminate In The Name Of God Is Inhuman.

Jesus Christ Conferred Power Upon Peter, But What Sort Of Power Was It? Jesus’ Three Questions To Peter About Love Are Followed By Three Commands: Feed My Lambs, Feed My Sheep. Let Us Never Forget That Authentic Power Is Service, And That The Pope Too, When Exercising Power, Must Enter Ever More Fully Into That Service Which Has Its Radiant Culmination On The Cross.

How Many Young People Among You Are Like This? You Know How To Give And Yet You Have Ever Learned How To Receive. You Still Lack One Thing. Become A Beggar. This Is What You Still Lack. Learn How To Beg. This Isn’t Easy To Understand. To Learn How To Beg. To Learn How To Receive With Humility.

When We Read About Creation In Genesis, We Run The Risk Of Imagining God Was A Magician, With A Magic Wand Able To Do Everything. But That Is Not So. God Is Not A Demiurge [demigod] Or A Magician, But The Creator Who Gives Being To All Entities. Evolution In Nature Is Not Opposed To The Notion Of Creation, Because Evolution Presupposes The Creation Of Beings That Evolve.