10 QUOTABLE QUOTES FROM POPE FRANCIS IN TACLOBAN

The HOMILY of POPE FRANCIS during the HOLY MASS in TACLOBAN CITY was very touching. Everyone was almost crying. The heavy rain could not hide the flowing tears and the emotional faces of the attendees while those watching over their televisions were definitely emotionally moved. Here are my top 10 lines from that short, simple but absolutely meaningful HOMILY:

1.   Jesus is like us. Jesus lived like us. Jesus is the same with us in every respect except sin. Because Jesus was not a sinner.

2.   I come to tell you that Jesus is Lord and He never lets us down.

3.   In His passion, He assumed all our pain.

4.   He was consecrated as Lord, on that throne and there He experienced all calamities that we experienced.

5.   That is why we have a Lord who is capable of crying with us, capable of walking with us, in the most difficult moments of life.

6.   Let us together hold a moment of silence, let us look to that Christ on the cross. He understands us because He endured everything.

7.   Please know that the love and tenderness of Mother Mary never lets you down.

8.   He understands us because He underwent all the trials that we, that you, have experienced. And beside the cross was His mother. We are like this little child, just there.

9.   We also have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help you, and we too, because of this we feel more brothers and sisters, because we helped each other.

10.  …let us move forward, always forward, and walk together as brothers and sisters in the Lord forward.