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In new year, share the

blessing of your time, pope
writes
As the new year begins, people should make a commitment to
nding time for others

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1 A 2021 manifesto for

As normalcy India's Christian
returns, new community
year to thaw Jan 2, 2021
Vietnam-
Vatican ties Pakistani Capuchin
Dec 31, 2020 named new bishop of
Quetta
Jan 2, 2021
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This handout photo taken and released on January 1, 2021 Jan 2, 2021
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by the Vatican Media shows Pope Francis holding a weekly
Dec 30, 2020 live-streamed private audience in the library of the apostolic
palace in The Vatican, during the Covid-19 pandemic
3 caused by the novel coronavirus. (Vatican Media / AFP)

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reconciliation
Jan 2, 2021 At the beginning of a year people hope will mark
the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis
urged them to create a "culture of care," including
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A 2021 by sharing the gift of their time with others.
manifesto for The Epiphany's
India's Despite suffering from a bout of sciatica, nerve lessons of love and
Christian pain, that left him unable to preside over Mass solidarity
community Jan 3, 2021
Jan. 1 in St. Peter's Basilica, the pope sent a
Jan 2, 2021
homily focused on God's blessings and on sharing A 2021 manifesto for
those blessings with others. India's Christian
5 community
The burning Consecrating the new year to Mary, the pope Jan 2, 2021
Hindu
temples of prayed that she would "care for us, bless our time,
Let us build a new
Pakistan and teach us to nd time for God and for others." Myanmar of justice
Dec 31, 2020 and peace
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state,
Jan 1, 2021
read the pope's homily as he celebrated the Mass
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for the feast of Mary, Mother of God, and for the New year brings rays
Let us build a
of hope for families of
new Catholic Church's celebration of World Peace Day.
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justice and Only about 100 people, all wearing masks, were in Mary's lessons in
peace motherhood
the socially distanced congregation for the Mass
Jan 1, 2021 Jan 1, 2021
at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica. Two
dozen cardinals, also wearing masks,
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Capuchin Saintly nun serves as
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The burning Hindu
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temples of Pakistan
In the homily he wrote, Pope Francis returned to Dec 31, 2020
9 themes from his World Peace Day message -- "A
As normalcy returns,
Argentina Culture of Care as a Path to Peace" -- and a recent
legalizes new year to thaw
abortion general audience talk about prayers of blessing. Vietnam-Vatican ties
during rst 14 Dec 31, 2020
weeks of "This year, while we hope for new beginnings and
pregnancy new cures, let us not neglect care," the pope wrote. The social suicide of
Dec 31, 2020 Japan's 'hikikomori'
"Together with a vaccine for our bodies, we need a
Dec 28, 2020
vaccine for our hearts. That vaccine is care. This
10 will be a good year if we take care of others, as Our
New year
Lady does with us." From Our
brings rays of Partner
hope for
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families of International
disappeared blessed," the pope wrote. "The rst thing he did
Jan 1, 2021 after creating the world was to say that everything A different
was good and to say of us that that we were very kind of
Christmas
good."

But with the birth of Jesus, he said, "we receive not Pope
Francis'
only words of blessing, but the blessing itself:
Christmas in
Jesus is himself the blessing of the Father."

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"Every time we open our hearts to Jesus, God's Seven ways

to celebrate
blessing enters our lives," he said. Christmas

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The example of Mary, blessed in a special way, he

wrote, "teaches us that blessings are received in
order to be given."

Referring to the Latin roots of the word

"benediction" -- to speak well -- Pope Francis wrote Mass on
that "we, too, are called to bless, to 'speak well' in Demand –
Sunday 3
God's name."

"Our world is gravely polluted by the way we speak Sunday

Gospel
and think badly of others, of society, of ourselves,"
re ection
he said. But complaining and denigrating others
"corrupts and decays, whereas blessing restores Readings of
life and gives the strength needed to begin anew." the Day:
The
The blessing of Jesus' birth, he wrote, is all the
more amazing because God sent the savior into Lord, may I
the world as a baby, who was formed in the esh always
seek Your
within the womb of Mary.

"The heart of the Lord began to beat within Mary; O God,

make
the God of life drew oxygen from her," the pope Epiphany
wrote. "Through Mary, we encounter God the way

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he wants us to: in tender love, in intimacy, in the Holy Name

of Jesus
esh."

As 2021 begins, he said, people should make a

commitment to nding time for others.

"Time is a treasure that all of us possess, yet we

guard it jealously, since we want to use it only for
ourselves," he wrote. "Let us ask for the grace to
nd time for God and for our neighbor -- for those
who are alone or suffering, for those who need
someone to listen and show concern for them."

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