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- 2. The transliteration of the first word angel Gabriel said to Mary in the Greek text of St. Luke 1:28.
- 4. Joy of man's desiring, and with whose personal encounter joy always comes anew in us.
- 6. whose primacy and initiative "the life of the Church should always reveal clearly" according to Pope Francis (EG, 12).
- 8. A community of missionary disciples that evangelizes and is herself evangelized through the beauty of liturgy.
- 9. An event of Jesus' mystery that is not an event of the past, but "a vital power" and "an irresistible force" whose signs in the world remind us that "[h]owever dark things are, goodness always re-emerges and spreads", that "[e]ach day in our world beauty is born anew, it rises transformed through the storms of history". (EG, 276)
- 10. a sacrament that "is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak". (EG, 47)
- 11. "who is manifested in the faith which works through love", according to St. Thomas Aquinas, and for whom, as Pope Francis teaches, "as far as external works are concerned, mercy is the greatest of all the virtues." (EG 37)
- 12. that by which we proclaim the good news beyond mere words, and which needs to be transfigured by God's presence. (EG, 259)
- 13. What Christ has commanded us to do seventy times seven.
- 14. Son of Cushi, who tells us that God "will rejoice over you with gladness, He will renew you in his love".
- 16. The greatest of the virtues that God never tires of showing all creation.
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- 1. by which we are saved, and that which, as John Newton writes, "brought me safe thus far" and that which "will lead me home".
- 3. Who "needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God's saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings". (EG 44)
- 5. The book whose wisdom echoes tender God's tender paternal love for Pope Francis: " “My child, treat yourself well, according to your means… Do not deprive yourself of the day’s enjoyment”.
- 7. the eternal Gospel, the first and greatest evangelizer, by whose creative eloquence every form of authentic evangelization is always "new".
- 8. the place that must not be "a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord's mercy which spurs us to do our best". (EG 44)
- 12. the only light which "can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working". (EG 272; Deus Caritas Est, 39)
- 15. "the presence of the Church in a given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in the Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration." (EG 28)
- 16. Whom God infinitely loves through a gift of joy like a flicker of light in the thick of life's darkness.