"Dear brothers and sisters, may our holy father Ignatius help us to preserve discernment, our precious legacy, as an ever timely treasure to be poured out on the Church and on the world."

This is what we should ask Jesus for at Christmas: the grace of littleness.

Pope Francis: The Gospel helps us to interpret “today’s pain and tomorrow’s hope” and calls on us to be ”witnesses of compassion amid widespread disinterest.”

Nothing leaves Jesus indifferent; everything is of concern to him. Encountering faces, meeting eyes, sharing each individual’s history.

Baptism is not merely an external rite. Those who receive it are transformed deep within, in their inmost being, and possess new life.

Pope Francis’s homily for the second Sunday of Easter: ’Having received mercy, let us now become merciful.‘