POPE LEO XIV SURPRISES THE WORLD WITH THIS EMOTIONAL STATEMENT...

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POPE LEO XIV SURPRISES THE WORLD WITH THIS EMOTIONAL STATEMENT...

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n this powerful and emotional moment, POPE LEO XIV delivers a message that left millions around the world speechless. His words, filled with faith, compassion, and hope, mark a new beginning for the Catholic Church. Watch the full video to hear the emotional statement that moved believers, clergy, and world leaders alike.

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before we begin I want to ask you something simple but meaningful as you listen to this message take a moment to

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comment below and tell us where in the world you're watching from it's a beautiful way for us to see how far this

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message of faith and unity can reach from every nation every heart on May 8th

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2025 the world once again heard the words that make time stand still habamus

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Papam but even before the bells echoed through Rome I was there in Bologna

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standing before the people of God celebrating a feast that has always touched my soul the descent of the

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sacred image of the Madonna de Sanluca that morning something felt different a

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gentle rain families gathered eyes lifted toward Mary the air carried a

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prophetic silence as if heaven was preparing something that we on earth had not yet imagined as I spoke to the crowd

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I wasn't just a cardinal waiting for human answers i was a son returning to his mother's arms i spoke of Mary i

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spoke of the Holy Spirit i spoke of mothers who cry for their children and I spoke with a heart overflowing with

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gratitude unaware that only hours later I would be called to become a father to

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become Peter to carry the keys of hope my brothers and sisters I am Robert

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Francis Pvost i served as a missionary in the villages of Peru i rode horseback

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down dusty roads to bring the Eucharist to those who couldn't reach the church i looked into the eyes of simple people

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and saw a faith that moves mountains and now the Lord has asked me to climb a

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different mountain the Calvary of responsibility surrender and the care of the universal church with fear but with

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faith I answered "Here I am today the day I became pope Leo 14th I remember

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what I said publicly to the people of Bolognia where will I ever find a faith like I found in Peru and now I know that

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faith lives in each of you in every mother who prays in every young person

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who searches in every elder who waits in silence faith is alive and I have not

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come to be served i have come to serve it on this first day I bring no political plans no grand reforms or

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declarations i bring something far more precious a call an invitation a word I

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learned as a child and now repeat to the entire world thank you because today

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while the church receives me as a father I arrive as a son and at the feet of the mother the blessed Virgin Mary I lay

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down this new beginning long before I ever understood what a calling truly was I already knew a face the face of Mary

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the mother of God the mother of the church my mother i grew up with a truth

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engraved in my soul i was never alone and if today I became pope it wasn't

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because of merit or destiny it's because someone guided me by the hand even when I couldn't see the way that mother quiet

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and unwavering has always walked by my side and today more than ever I feel her

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presence that's why just hours before my election I said in Bolognia "We are not

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orphans not of a father nor of a mother." These were not just words in a sermon they were truth a truth I've

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carried with me since my missionary days in Peru when I saw in the eyes of indigenous mothers many of them widowed

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abandoned or forgotten the same faith I see in the image of the Virgin of San Luca they knew just as I know now that

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Mary never abandons her children so my first prayer as Pope Leo 14th was not a

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prepared speech it was a quiet plea whispered before the image of our mother don't leave me alone walk with me as you

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always have and I know she already is because there is no throne stronger than Mary's embrace and no pope stands

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without the support of this blessed mother to me this is continuity pope Francis my dear brother and shepherd had

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a profound love for the Virgin how many times did we see him eyes filled with tears before our lady in Rome especially

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at the Patza Despa today I humbly take up that same devotion not as a legacy

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but as a need i too need to be guided by her every single day that's why my first

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request to the whole church is simple turn your eyes to Mary let her not just be a symbol on the church walls but a

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living presence in your homes in your pain in your joy in your waiting because if she walks with us none of us is lost

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and if she points us to her son none of us will remain in darkness for many years I didn't wear Roman shoes i wore

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the sandals of a missionary i climbed mountains crossed rivers walked through dust and mud entered homes made of clay

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not as a visitor but as a servant there in northern Peru in the dascese of Chico

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I learned what it means to be a shepherd who smells like his sheep sometimes the car couldn't make it so we went on

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horseback but the gospel always arrived because wherever there's hunger for God he prepares the way himself i remember

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one afternoon some years ago a 7-year-old boy stood waiting for me holding a rosary he said "Bishop my

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grandma said that when you pray here my mom will get better." It was pure faith

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living faith i limited as I am just smiled prayed and moved on months later

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I saw his mother walking in the patron saints procession healed standing with tears in her eyes she didn't thank me

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she thanked the mother Mary and that day I understood the real miracle is the

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kind of faith that makes an entire family believe that prayer still heals so when I left Peru and I said this

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publicly in Bologna my heart was heavy i kept asking myself will I ever again

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find a people with such devotion such thirst for the sacred but today on the day I became pope I give thanks to God

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because the whole world is the field he now asks me to serve and yes there is

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faith faith in every corner in every town every forgotten chapel in every

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tear that rises as a silent prayer the faith I witnessed in Peru shaped me as a

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shepherd it taught me to listen before I speak to carry people's pain before

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raising banners to believe that no title is greater than the simple act of sitting beside someone who is suffering

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and today as the successor of Peter this will be my mission to listen to love to

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pray to be near even when the distance seems too great because with Christ and

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Mary no distance is ever too far and if once a horse carried me to remote communities in the Andes today the Holy

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Spirit carries me to the nations but the mission remains the same to bring Christ

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to bring comfort to bring hope and to keep walking with the people always with

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the people because without the people the pope is just a name with the people

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he becomes a father one of the deepest promises Jesus ever made is also one of

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the most forgotten i will not leave you as orphans these words have accompanied me throughout my years of ministry but

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they became more real during the time when the world stopped when the virus locked us indoors closed our churches

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separated families and showed us harshly that loneliness can be as deadly as disease but it was there in the silence

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of ICUs in desperate phone calls in quiet gestures behind masks that I came

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to understand the face of the Holy Spirit i remember stories from the hospitals doctors holding the hands of

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dying patients nurses whispering prayers before intubating someone volunteers

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making phone calls so mothers could hear one last I love you from a child who was leaving this world that was the Holy

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Spirit not as wind or fire but as embodied comfort he was present in the

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small the forgotten the weary he is what remains when everything else seems lost

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and he has never left us that rainy morning in Bologna I said the spirit is

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like breath and the beating of the heart two things we only notice when they're gone but without them there is no life

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and so it is with the Holy Spirit he is God's breath in us he is what keeps the

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church standing even when the world seems to be collapsing he is the one sustaining me now in this new calling as

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my humanity trembles under the weight of becoming Peter today as pope I say to

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everyone invoke the spirit in days of fear call on him when answers are

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missing let him whisper the spirit is Christ's greatest gift to the church he's the one who teaches us to love to

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forgive to endure he turns our words into truth our actions into salvation he

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doesn't shout he comforts and comfort is the language of heaven as this new time

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begins I ask that we become a church that comforts thank you so much for being here with us and for following

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this journey of faith and reflection if you're enjoying the content make sure to subscribe to the channel so you can

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continue receiving these inspiring stories don't forget to give us a like and share with your friends so more

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people can be touched by these messages may God bless you and everyone around you together we can spread more love and

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hope a church that listens a church that breathes with God's heart not one that

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thrives on debate but one that thrives on compassion a church unafraid of the world's pain one that enters it carrying

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the light of the pariclete and may we never ever allow anyone to feel orphaned

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not from the father not from the mother not from the church today while the

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world calls me Pope Leo 15th my heart remains that of a son and as a son I

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cannot ignore the tears of mothers yesterday is Mother's Day in many parts of the world and among flowers and

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tributes there is also silence some mothers cry from longing others from

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pain there are mothers who no longer hold their children in their arms and there are those who still do but watch

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them lost distant imprisoned sick or wounded by violence and indifference

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there are mothers like Rachel who weep because their children are no more i

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think of the mothers in Ukraine the Holy Land Sudan Haiti and so many places where peace is always postponed i think

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of mothers carrying invisible crosses i think of mothers raising children alone

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of those forgotten by their own children of those who pray quietly before an image of Mary pleading "Save my son

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protect my daughter." And I say "Those tears are not in vain they rise to

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heaven." And Mary weeps with you that's why my first plea to the world as pope is not a political plan it is the cry of

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a son stop killing the children of mothers stop wounding the hearts that bring life into the world stop ignoring

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the most sacred gift we have the gift of peace every bomb every bullet every abandonment they all tear through the

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womb of humanity and any civilization that makes mothers cry is losing its

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soul i don't have all the answers but I do have faith and I am certain that

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peace is possible that reconciliation is possible and that the world will only be made new when we begin to hear the cries

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of mothers as if they were the very cries of God like Peter I can no longer

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deny i must declare "Lord you know that I love you." And to love the Lord today

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means loving the forgotten children of those mothers loving through action through justice through courage so I

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invite all of you bishops priests lay people young people religious to embrace

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the suffering of these women to join the church in prayer for peace and to walk

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like Mary alongside every Calvary of our time because wherever there is a mother

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standing at the foot of the cross there too is the hope of resurrection that morning standing before the crowd

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gathered for the descent of the Madonna de Sanluca I looked up at the sky it was

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overcast a light rain was falling over us yet no one left no one sought shelter

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because everyone knew that the image simple silent and carried with deep devotion was descending not just for the

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city but for the hearts and even the rain seemed to bow before the mother

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rain and tears became one it was as if heaven too was crying but not with

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sorrow with consolation the image of Mary descending to her people is more than tradition it is a sign a gesture

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from heaven that says "I am with you." The historical records in Bolognia are clear in times of plague war earthquakes

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hunger she was invoked and she never failed never that's why when people ask

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me whether miracles still happen in our time I answer they do the greatest miracle of all is knowing that Mary

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still walks with us that she descends enters our streets our homes our pain our families and takes us by the hand

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there are moments when the storms feel endless the loss of a child the collapse of a home a diagnosis that breaks the

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spirit loneliness doubt and in those moments many believe God has gone silent

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but it's precisely then that the mother draws near she doesn't shout she doesn't demand she simply appears as a sign of

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tenderness as a light that shines after the storm and she reminds us that her son is still the way even when our eyes

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can't see the path the image of the Madonna de Sanluca holding the child in her arms points us to a truth the world

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must relearn there is no salvation without tenderness no future without

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faith and the greatest miracle Mary can offer us is to never let us walk away from Jesus because when she leads us to

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him she gives us back our very selves our peace our identity our salvation

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today as Pope facing a world divided wounded and weary I turn my eyes to Mary

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and I ask each of you to do the same consecrate yourselves to her trust her

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tune out the voices that mock faith or belittle devotion stand firm like children who know where their mother is

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because if the people of Bolognia were protected by her for centuries then we too in every corner of the world will be

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sheltered under the same mantle that has endured rain war and time throughout

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every difficult chapter in the church's history God has chosen women silent

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courageous faithful women and in each one of them the presence of the mother echoed mary it's no coincidence that

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when Jesus was dying on the cross he entrusted humanity to her "behold your

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mother," he said to the beloved disciple and from that moment on she entered our home and she never left mary is not just

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a devotional memory she is a living mission in the first reading of that deeply symbolic day we heard of

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Philillip full of the spirit preaching and healing but his greatest work wasn't just his words it was his availability

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his openness to the spirit and that is Mary the woman who was available she

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didn't plan the mission she surrendered to it she didn't say much but she lived

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every word in silence she bore the word in obedience she stood by him until the

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cross i believe and now repeat as pope that the church of the future if it

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wishes to remain faithful must become more like Mary a church less noisy and

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more contemplative less defensive and more trusting less dominating and more maternal we need a church that

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evangelizes through action that speaks from the heart that embraces without judgment a church with open doors and

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open ears and hands ready to serve the young people of our time don't just need spoken truths they need lived witness

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they need priests who weep with their people religious sisters who pray with faith bishops who know their flocks

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wounds they need a church that wears the scapular over its heart and a smile on its face a church that adors the blessed

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sacrament and visits the lonely in the hospital that is what it means to be like Mary to unite heaven and earth with

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a look of love today I leave this appeal as part of my mission may every parish

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every community every religious house look to Mary and ask "Are we becoming like her?" If the answer is no then we

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still have much to journey but if the answer is yes then let us walk forward with confidence because a church modeled

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after Mary will always be fruitful it will always be light it will always be mission when I reflect on my own journey

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I see the grace of belonging to the spiritual family of St augustine a saint who wasn't born holy who didn't arrive

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at faith with ease augustinine was restless rebellious a relentless seeker

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but he had a mother a mother named Monica a woman who didn't argue with him but wept for him who didn't preach with

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harsh words but knelt in prayer when no one was watching and it was that quiet strength that spiritual motherhood that

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transformed her son's restless soul into a beacon for the church today as Pope

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Leo 14th I want to say this the church must learn to be like Monica again

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instead of condemning sinners we must weep for them instead of pointing fingers we must wait with patience

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instead of shouting for conversion we must love until conversion happens the

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world is full of augustinines young people who are lost men and women searching wounded trying to fill empty

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spaces with things that don't satisfy the church must not push them away the church must embrace them wait for them

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welcome them and love them until they allow themselves to be loved by God in

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Bolognia on May 8th I spoke about this with emotion i said I dreamed of

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communities that would be like Monica communities that pray that never give up that persevere even when all seems lost

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how many mothers today cry alone for children who have drifted from the faith may their tears not be in vain may each

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drop fall like incense before God's throne because heaven listens to a mother's cry and if the church is truly

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a mother she too must learn to weep to weep for the souls that have wandered

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for the baptized who have forgotten grace for those who left the altar and got lost in the world but may we never

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stop hoping they'll return and like Monica may we remain faithful to the end

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because when prayer is persistent and love unwavering the miracle comes always

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so today I consecrate the beginning of this pontificate to those who wait to those who cry to those who love in

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silence may the Holy Spirit the same Spirit who set Augustine's heart on fire

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also kindle the hearts of all those who are far from home and may the church never close her doors because one day

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the one who once mocked the faith and may be the same one to proclaim it with tears in his eyes and fire in his soul

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that same day when I was still just one cardinal among many something touched me deeply during the return procession of

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the Madonna de San Luca I witnessed with my own eyes something the world has been trying to achieve for centuries unity i

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saw different communities walking side by side the Ukrainian Catholics Christians connected to the Moscow

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patriarchate Muldovans Italians each with their own language their own story

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their own pain but all walking together and above us all the image of the mother

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in that moment I realized something profound mary is the bond that can still

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reconcile what has been torn apart a mother doesn't choose her children she loves them all and Mary's love knows no

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political borders doctrinal divisions or historical wounds she simply descends

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she walks she cries with those who cry and she reaches out to bring together what we in our pride have separated that

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procession wasn't just a liturggical act it was a sign from heaven a silent appeal for unity the church was born

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united in the spirit pentecost wasn't just an isolated miracle it was the birth of a family but over the centuries

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we drifted apart still I believe that in this new time we are being called back

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to what really matters to what unites us our faith in Christ our baptism and the

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love of the mother and maybe if we stop arguing and start walking together side by side unity will come not through

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force but through tenderness not through politics but through prayer today as

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pope I do not bring magical solutions to the divisions between separated brothers and sisters but I do bring one certainty

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mary is waiting for us together and every time Christians of different traditions kneel before her something

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shifts in heaven the mother recognizes us and in time so will our hearts that's

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why I wish to be a pontiff of reconciliation a father who doesn't seek to stir conflict but to build bridges

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and one of the holiest bridges we have is the heart of the mother so I ask all of you Catholics across the world pray

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for unity pray for peace pray that the spirit will tear down the walls that

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divide us and that one day we may gather at the same altar around the same table sharing the same bread because the world

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is longing for a united church a church that speaks less about itself and more about the love that holds it together if

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there's one thing I've learned after so many years in mission whether in the fields of Peru the quiet halls of the

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Vatican or the processions in Bolognia it's that the greatest miracle God performs today isn't flashy it's not

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fire from the sky nor visible angels it's faith the kind of faith that moves a grandmother to pray alone for her

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grandchildren the kind that keeps a father from giving up on his family the kind that makes a young person walk into

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a church when everything inside them wants to run that silent faith is the flame still holding this world together

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that's why on the morning of May 8th I didn't speak of church governance or pastoral strategies i spoke of the faith

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I've seen in the people the faith that sustains me faith is a living response

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to the risen one because as the second reading said that day reverence Christ

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as Lord in your hearts and it is in that inner altar where every true Christian

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revolution begins it's not about structures it's about conversion not

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about titles but about testimony today as Pope Leo for Mortin I make a

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heartfelt appeal to all believers of every age let the world see Christ alive

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in you let's be men and women who evangelize not with speeches but with our way of life may our joy not depend

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on what we have but on what we believe may our gentleness not be weakness but

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the strength of the spirit may each of us be a reflection of the risen Christ in the world a Christian isn't just

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someone who goes to church a Christian carries a presence the presence of someone who defeated death of someone

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who promised "I will be with you always." That someone is Jesus and when

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we allow him to live in us others notice they wonder they seek and then without

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pressure the gospel spreads like fragrance like a flame glowing in the

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dark so from this day forward with humility and trust I send you out as missionaries of hope the church cannot

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just be a safe fortress it must be a bridge a lamp an embrace and I as your

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shepherd walk with you together because the mission isn't mine alone it's ours

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and united with Mary with the spirit with the saints who walk beside us we will be a living church one that sparks

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faith where only ashes once remained because Christ lives and that changes

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everything people often imagine the pope as someone placed high on a pedestal above the crowds but I learned the

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opposite i learned that before the pope is a man of the crowds he must be a man of the ground of the altar and the

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ground because it was on the dirt floors of Peruvian homes that I discovered what it means to be a servant washing the

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feet of forgotten elders hearing confessions from widows in tears bringing the Eucharist into

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neighborhoods made of mud and dust it was there that I understood the power that comes from God is meant to kneel

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not to be exalted once during a visit to an isolated community a woman placed her

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only chair outside her home so I could sit she remained standing i insisted we switch places she looked me in the eyes

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and said "Today you brought Jesus into my home and when he comes we offer the best." That moment stayed with me

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forever i was just a simple missionary and yet to her I carried something sacred and in that instant I understood

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to carry Jesus in our actions is worth more than any title now as Pope Leo 14th

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I remember that moment with tears held back because once again someone is offering me the chair but this chair the

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chair of Peter is not a throne of pride it is a seat of service a calling to let go of my own name to become a father to

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the fatherless to carry the weight of the church's pain without seeking applause to be a bridge even when the

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soul longs to rest it is altar and ground incense and dust and I accept it

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out of love for Christ and his church i want to be a people's pope a pope who

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knows the voices of the humble who isn't impressed by palaces but by worn rosaries who understands that the

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church's beauty is found in the faces of those who suffer pray and wait i hope that when people look at me they don't

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just see a leader but a brother a son of the church a servant of truth a friend

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of the cross and most of all I hope they feel that it is still possible to believe so I ask you brothers and

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sisters walk with me pray for me teach me with your witness correct me with

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charity and above all serve serve with joy just as I will strive to serve

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because the Pope is not the one above all others he is the first to kneel and if the altar is sacred so is the ground

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because it was there that Christ washed the feet of his disciples and it is there that I long to remain few people

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know this but there's a kind of loneliness that follows anyone called to lead it's not the loneliness of being

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physically alone it's the loneliness of the heart even surrounded by crowds a shepherd knows that at times he must

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walk alone he'll have to make decisions torn between the cross and the sword he'll have to stay silent when the world

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demands an answer he'll have to hold on to faith even when he sees it fading in others that kind of loneliness isn't a

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punishment it's a cross and every cross carries a secret it can only be born

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with love the night before my election I admit I was afraid a quiet deep fear i

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asked God "What if I'm not capable what if I can't understand what you want from me?" And in the silence of prayer I

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remembered the words I had often spoken to others do not be afraid the spirit will sustain you in that moment I felt

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the presence of the one who always walks with me Mary the mother she didn't speak out loud but her presence comforted me

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and right then I understood even when I feel alone I am never truly alone prayer

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my brothers and sisters is the Pope's only real refuge not the Vatican walls

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not the solemn rituals not the applause it is the silence of the soul before God

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it is a rosary prayed through tears it is a gaze fixed on the crucifix I've carried since seminary that's where I

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remember who I am small fragile but also a son and as a son I now speak to the

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whole world asking "Don't let the pope pray alone let us pray together for the

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sick for the forgotten for those who've lost their faith for the weary priests for the young who can't find meaning for

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the couples barely holding on for the hungry for those who lie awake in fear

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because every whispered prayer is a drop of balm upon the shoulders of the one carrying the weight of the church and

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believe me I will feel each one of them and I will give thanks even in silence

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and when loneliness does come as it surely will I know I'll be able to close my eyes and whisper like a tired child

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"Mother stay with me tonight." And I know she will as she always has because

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those who entrust their mission to Mary are never alone and if the Pope is a

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father it's only because he first learned how to be a son a son of God a son of the church and a child of a

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mother who never abandons us many believe the church stands on great decisions sinnods in cyclicals or the

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splendor of solemn celebrations and yes these have their place but what I've

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learned as a priest as a missionary as a bishop and now as pope is that what

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truly sustains the church are the small acts invisible anonymous a rosary prayed

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on a crowded bus a candle lit in a kitchen a quiet visit to the blessed

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sacrament a tear shed on a church pew a whispered "Our Father," before sleep

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these are like hidden pillars no one sees them but without them the temple would collapse i remember a woman in

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Peru named Dona Claraara a widow illiterate her knees worn from a

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lifetime of prayer she didn't know theology but she knew every mystery of the rosary by heart and when someone in

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the village got sick it was her home they turned to because that's where living faith resided warm faith faith

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that brought comfort dona Claraara never stood in a pulpit but her life preached constantly and I wonder how many hidden

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saints are out there holding up the church without anyone ever knowing today as Pope Leo 14th I want to say this to

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each of you you matter your faith matters your example matters you don't

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need to be a priest or a religious or a preacher you just need to be faithful where you are be a light in your

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neighborhood be mercy in your family be hope at your workplace because when the

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people of God live their faith the world begins to change not with noise but with

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persistence like rain that soaks the earth slowly transforming everything in

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time please know this every simple prayer you say every act of love every

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hard forgiveness every time you return to mass after being away it all has eternal weight and as your pastor I

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carry each of these offerings in my heart they are the bricks of the kingdom and they give me courage to press on

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because the church isn't built only with stone and marble it's built with living faith with the daily sacrifices of

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people who love God in silence whoever you are wherever you are know this you

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are needed god doesn't call the perfect he calls the willing and the church

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needs you because the mission ahead is vast and and no one else can take your place through your faith your struggles

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your prayer you help carry this boat forward and together we will reach the other shore because Jesus is with us and

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he always honors the small acts today with a father's heart and a son's soul I

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want to speak directly to you young people to those of you looking at me with curiosity maybe with doubt or

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perhaps with quiet hope I see you and more than that I believe in you i believe because despite the questions

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you face the fears you carry the emptiness the world keeps offering I see in your eyes the same restlessness I saw

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in so many young people in Peru in Italy in Africa in the slums in universities

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and that restlessness is holy it is the spirit calling crying out asking for

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room many of you grew up hearing that the church is for old people that prayer is outdated that love is weakness but I

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tell you belonging to Christ is the boldest act of rebellion this world needs to witness belonging to Christ is

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true freedom it's seeing someone else's pain and not walking past it's building

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bridges when everyone else is raising walls it's forgiving when the world demands revenge it's loving when love

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seems impossible during a vigil with young people in Bologna I heard testimonies that marked me one young man

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a former drug addict said "I tried everything but only in Mary did I find an embrace that didn't ask for anything

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in return a young woman in tears told me "I thought God had forgotten me but he

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found me when I went to look for my mom at church." What does this say that you are searching and the church must search

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for you too not with rules but with love not with walls but with welcome so I

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invite you not just to attend the church but to be the church to take up the altar and the streets to study and to

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pray to create to serve to sing to write to shout with your hearts that Christ is

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alive your faith is different and that is a gift the way you feel the world is

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more intense more sensitive that is a gift your courage to stand against injustice to fight for causes to reject

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a lukewarm faith all of that is a gift and I as Pope need you the church needs

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you the world needs you so young people don't be afraid to shine even if you're surrounded by darkness even if you feel

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alone even if they mock you shine shine with the light of Christ and wherever

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you go bring hope bring mercy bring life be rebels with a purpose be saints with

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boldness be prophets with joy and remember it was a young woman from Nazareth Mary who said yes and changed

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the world now it's your turn we've come to the end of this first message as pope

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but for me this is just the beginning the beginning of a mission I did not choose but I accepted a calling I do not

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fully understand but I embrace with all my heart today May 8th 2025 before

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heaven and earth before angels and mankind I consecrate this pontificate to

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the immaculate heart of Mary because only a mother can teach a son how to be a father and only the mother's heart can

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uphold the heart of a pope with every action every decision every sleepless night every silent tear shed under the

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weight of this mission I will entrust it all to her because I know that Mary

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turns everything into grace i know that in her hands even my weaknesses will

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serve the church and to her I entrust every priest every religious every young person every mother every poor and

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abandoned soul mary knows each one and just like at Kaa she still says "Do

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whatever he tells you." To the whole world Catholics Christians from other traditions men and women of goodwill I

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say "Let us no longer walk divided the world needs peace." And peace begins

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when hearts bow when pride gives way to forgiveness when justice is no longer

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vengeance but reconciliation may this pontificate be a time of rebuilding not of walls but of

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bridges not of imposition but of conversion and may that conversion begin

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in me i know hard days will come i know not everyone will understand the choices

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ahead but my prayer is simple that I may never drift from the gospel that I may

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never lose the joy of serving that I may never stop listening to the lowly that I

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may never trade tenderness for coldness that I may never grow tired of loving and that at the end of each day I may

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say with humility "Today I became a little more like Christ and now with the authority entrusted to me but above all

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with the love that flows from my heart as a shepherd I bless each of you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of

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the Holy Spirit and I send you with a mission bring to the world the joy of the risen one bring Mary into your homes

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bring hope to the hopeless bring faith where only ashes remain and please don't

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forget to pray for me i need you walk with me and as Francis said before me

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let no one steal our hope thank you so much for reaching the end of this video your company and participation means so

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