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February 20, 2025: "But if we believe that Jesus is who he says he is, if we really believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, who suffered and was killed and on the third day rose again, then our life totally changes!"
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February 16, 2025: "He’s teaching us that we need to have hearts that long for God alone, hearts that seek only him, hearts that know that what we are looking for in life can only be found in God. If we don’t have God in our lives, we will never be satisfied. We’ll never be fully happy."
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February 15, 2025: "We will never be satisfied, never be truly happy, if we do not have God in our lives. Jesus is telling us tonight that if we want to find God, we need to be “poor in spirit,” to live with detachment from material things. To follow Jesus, we need to have a simple lifestyle, not worrying too much about ourselves and our comforts."
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February 11, 2025: "Cada nación tiene la especial responsabilidad de controlar y asegurar sus fronteras; pero los muros fronterizos también tienen necesidad de puertas. Las personas nacen con el natural derecho de emigrar en busca de una vida mejor, y las naciones prósperas están llamadas a acogerlas con generosidad."
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February 2, 2025: "It is a humble, ordinary scene that we see in our Gospel today. A mother and her husband come to the Temple to present their newborn child to God. It’s a scene that’s not much different than the way parents today bring their child to be baptized in our time."
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January 18, 2025: "Especially in this moment, if we open our hearts and look with Mary’s eyes, we will see people who have no food, no home, no jobs, as a result of the wildfires. We will see people who have no one to love them, no one to heal their wounds."
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January 18, 2025: "...the voice of the Lord is still speaking to us from the midst of these fires. He is still promising his love. Our challenge is to listen for his voice."
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January 10, 2025: "We must be the ones who bring comfort to our neighbors in this time of disaster. And we must be the ones also who stand by their side and help them to rebuild and go forward with courage and faith and hope in God."
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January 9, 2025: "We don’t know why these disasters happen. But we do know that Our Father holds this world, and each of our lives, in his loving hands. And we do know that everything he does, he does out of love for us, and for our salvation."
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December 29, 2024: "Every Jubilee reminds us that we are all “on pilgrimage.Our life’s journey is now a journey of faith. With Jesus at our side, walking by his Spirit, we are on pilgrimage to his Father’s house, to the heavenly kingdom, where we will discover the love that never ends."
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December 16, 2024: "Father Juan is also a man for whom Our Lord has worked a miracle. We praise God for that, and we want to share his story with you."
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December 12, 2024: "In the silence and darkness of this midnight, we remember the Daughter of Zion who came to visit her children in Mexico City, four hundred and ninety three years ago on this night. She came radiant out of the heavens, clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars!"
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December 10, 2024: "Those first Christians loved one another as Jesus had loved them. They practiced mercy and compassion, especially toward the weak and vulnerable; they formed strong families and raised their children to love God; they shared their faith with their neighbors and they worked to build up the communities they lived in."
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October 20, 2024: "Jesus can “sympathize with our weakness.” He can understand our struggles and sufferings, he knows what we’re going through. Always. And we see this on every page in the Gospels. Jesus knows what it’s like to work, he knows what it’s like to have a family and friends; to be tired and thirsty; he knows what it’s like to suffer and die."
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September 29, 2024: "That’s the story of America, which is a nation of immigrants, one nation formed out of many nationalities and peoples. And the immigrant spirit is also the spirit of the Catholic Church, which is one pilgrim people, the family of God drawn out of every country, from the ends of the earth."
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September 17, 2024: "Jesus is always looking at us, he is always sensitive to what’s happening in our lives. And his first word is always one of consolation. He comes to wipe away our tears, he comes to help us to see through our pain, so that we can see the Father’s love for us."
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September 7, 2024: "The family of God in Los Angeles is an encounter of cultures and peoples, fulfilling the promise of the early Church in Jerusalem, the Church of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came down upon men and women gathered from every nation under heaven."
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September 1, 2024: "Jesus speaks so strong to the Pharisees because he wants us to know that he is serious about our lives. He talks this way because he loves us, and because he does not want us to be deceived or confused about the right way to live."
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August 17, 2024: "The Eucharist, my dear brothers and sisters, as we know, is why Jesus came down from heaven, it is why Jesus came down from heaven, so we could be lifted up to heaven! He died so that we might live and live forever with him."
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July 19, 2024: "Jesus is counting on us to bring people back to the Church! We need to bring people back to Mass! We cannot approach the altar without wanting to bring others with us. And we need to help our neighbors to see that the Love they are looking for is true and real, that he is already here, that he has a name, Jesus Christ!"
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