Ten quotes from Pope Francis

Credit goes to Paul at peopleforothers.loyolapress.com for this lot.

10.  “Jesus did not come to teach a philosophy, an ideology, but rather ‘a way,’ a journey to be undertaken with him, and we learn the way as we go by walking.”

9.  “Throughout history, one baptizes another, another, and another… it is a chain, a chain of grace. I cannot baptize myself: I must ask another for baptism. It is an act of brotherhood, an act of filiation with the Church.”

8.  “And wisdom is precisely this: to see the world, to see situations, circumstances, problem, everything through God’s eyes.”

7.  “The Lord speaks to us not only in the intimacy of the heart – yes, he speaks to us, but not only there – but also through the voice and witness of our brothers and sisters.”

6.  “Faith is necessarily ecclesial; it is professed from within the Body of Christ as a concrete communion of believers.”

5.  “It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come to see the face of Jesus.”

4. “…there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.”

3.  “We cannot live apart, closed in on ourselves. We need to love and be loved. We need tenderness.”

2.  “Take note: if the Church is alive, she must always surprise. It is incumbent upon the living Church to astound.”

1.  “Where was Jesus most often, where could he most easily be found? On the road.”

He is risen

Easter Sequence

Christians, to the Paschal Victim

  offer sacrifice and praise.

The sheep are ransomed by the Lamb;

and Christ, the undefiled,

hath sinners to his Father reconciled.

Death with life contended:

  combat strangely ended!

Life’s own Champion, slain,

  yet lives to reign.

Tell us, Mary:

  say what thou didst see

  upon the way.

The tomb the Living did enclose;

I saw Christ’s glory as he rose!

The angels there attesting;

shroud with grave-clothes resting.

Christ, my hope, has risen:

he goes before you into Galilee.

That Christ is truly risen

  from the dead we know.

Victorious king, thy mercy show!