POPE TALK | KAIROS GLOBAL | FEBRUARY 2024

Author: Dr Kochurani Joseph

• Only in God we find the light of life Jesus, the Lamb of God, who redeems, frees, heals, and enlightens.

• God is not looking for your achievements, but for your open and trusting heart. In him you will rediscover who you truly are: a beloved son or daughter of God.

• Peace is the fruit of relationships that recognise and welcome others in their inalienable dignity, and of cooperation and commitment in seeking the integral development of all individuals and people.

• The hope of Mary and the Church is not optimism, it is something else: it is faith in God, faithful to his promises and the Christian, like Mary, is a pilgrim of hope.

• One must never dialogue with the devil. Evil does not begin in man in a clamorous way, but when he begins to fantasise about it, to nurse it in the imagination and in thoughts, and ends up being ensnared by its enticements. 

• The development and use of artificial intelligence must be directed toward the pursuit of peace and the common good.

• The Christian must be open to the Word of God and to the service of others. Closed Christians always end up badly, because they are not Christians, they are ideologues of closure.

• Through silence and prayer, we make space for Jesus; silence is essential to concentrate on what is indispensable in order to live, and to be freed from the pollution of vain words and chatter.

• The Holy Spirit always precedes the missionaries and makes the fruit grow. Without the Holy Spirit, all zeal is vain and falsely apostolic.

• Climate change one of the principal challenges facing society and the global community and the environmental destruction is an offense against God.  

FEBRUARY

FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL 

We pray that those with a terminal illness, and their families, receive the necessary physical and spiritual care and accompaniment.