Limited Time Offer
Premium members can get their quote collection automatically imported into their Quotewise collections.
" "(From the homily during the Missa Pro eligendo Romano Pontifice) The liturgical texts of this Eucharistic celebration, then, invite us to fraternal love, to mutual help and to commitment to ecclesial communion and universal human fraternity.
Giovanni Battista Re (30 January 1934) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
Premium members can get their quote collection automatically imported into their Quotewise collections.
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Depurata da tempo dagli aspetti esteriori e per così dire “commerciali”, è un momento di grazia speciale. I peccati infatti hanno bisogno soprattutto del perdono di Dio, ma poi anche di una purificazione, da attuare quaggiù, oppure, dopo la morte, nel Purgatorio. L’assoluzione sacramentale nella confessione toglie la colpa e ridà l’amicizia con Dio, ma rimane il dovere della purificazione dell’impronta negativa lasciata dal male compiuto e di una riparazione. Ecco l’indulgenza, mediante la quale noi attingiamo dal tesoro della Chiesa, cioè dai meriti acquistati da Cristo, dalla Madonna e dai Santi. L’indulgenza si può ottenere una sola volta al giorno e può essere applicata anche per i nostri cari defunti aiutandoli nel loro processo di purificazione.
I hope that when I return to Rome this evening, I will find white smoke. I am particularly pleased to be here at the beginning of the Conclave so that the Holy Spirit may blow strongly and the Pope that today's Church and today's world need may be elected. [The new pope] must first of all seek to strengthen faith in God in our world characterised by technological progress but, spiritually speaking, we have noticed a certain ‘forgetting of God’. There is a need for a reawakening.
Add semantic quote search to your AI assistant via MCP. One command setup.
Deprived for some time of the outward and, so to speak, "commercial" aspects, it is a time of special grace. Indeed, sins need God's forgiveness above all, but then also a purification, to be carried out here below, or, after death, in purgatory. Sacramental absolution in confession removes guilt and restores friendship with God, but there remains the duty of purification of the negative imprint left by the evil done and of reparation. This is the indulgence, through which we draw from the treasure of the Church, that is, from the merits acquired from Christ, Our Lady and the Saints. The indulgence can only be obtained once a day and can also be applied to our deceased loved ones by helping them in their purification process.