Frasi di Papa Giovanni Paolo I

Papa Giovanni Paolo I è stato il 263º vescovo di Roma e papa della Chiesa cattolica, finora l'ultimo di nazionalità italiana, 5º sovrano dello Stato della Città del Vaticano, accanto agli altri titoli connessi al suo ufficio.

Fu eletto il 26 agosto 1978 e il suo pontificato fu tra i più brevi nella storia della Chiesa cattolica: la sua morte avvenne dopo soli 33 giorni dalla sua elezione al soglio di Pietro. È servo di Dio: nel 2003 è stata aperta la causa per la sua canonizzazione.

Viene ricordato con gli affettuosi appellativi di "Papa del Sorriso" e "Sorriso di Dio". Il TIME e altri settimanali anglosassoni lo chiamarono The September Pope, "Il Papa di Settembre". A lui è stato dedicato un museo, situato nella canonica del suo paese natale.

✵ 17. Ottobre 1912 – 28. Settembre 1978   •   Altri nomi Albino Luciani
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Papa Giovanni Paolo I frasi celebri

“Signore, prendimi come sono, con i miei difetti, con le mie mancanze, ma fammi diventare come tu mi desideri.”

preghiera particolare tratta dall Udienza Generale http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_i/audiences/documents/hf_jp-i_aud_13091978_it.html di mercoledì 13 settembre 1978: La Fede

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Papa Giovanni Paolo I Frasi e Citazioni

“Se conservatore vuol dire mantener intatta la propria fede, sono conservatore.”

Attribuite
Origine: Citato in Giulio Andreotti, intervista a Roberto Gervaso, in Roberto Gervaso, La mosca al naso: interviste famose, Rizzoli Editore, Milano, 1980, p. 11: «Risponderò con Giovanni Paolo I: se conservatore vuol dire mantener intatta la propria fede, sono conservatore».

“Viva l'Agordino, una terra povera, ma però di buona gente; non perché io sono agordino, ma veramente gente onesta.”

dall' Udieza ai Bellunesi http://www.papaluciani.it/Humilitas/08/humilitas_luglio08.html del 3 settembre 1978

“Dio vi perdoni quello che avete fatto.”

ai Cardinali elettori; citato in Domenico Del Río, Il frutteto di Dio, Vita e Pensiero, 1998, p. 66 http://books.google.it/books?id=8ZO6K7k-u_4C&pg=PA66

Papa Giovanni Paolo I: Frasi in inglese

“People sometimes say: "we are in a society that is all rotten, all dishonest." That is not true. There are still so many good people, so many honest people.”

Angelus (24 September 1978) http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_i/angelus/documents/hf_jp-i_ang_24091978_en.html
Contesto: People sometimes say: "we are in a society that is all rotten, all dishonest." That is not true. There are still so many good people, so many honest people. Rather, what can be done to improve society? I would say: let each of us try to be good and to infect others with a goodness imbued with the meekness and love taught by Christ. Christ's golden rule was: "do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself. Do to others what you want done to yourself." 'And he always gave. Put on the cross, not only did he forgive those who crucified him, but he excused them. He said: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." This is Christianity, these are sentiments which, if put into practice would help society so much.

“We are the objects of undying love on the part of God. We know: he has always his eyes open on us, even when it seems to be dark. He is our father; even more he is our mother.”

Angelus (10 September 1978) http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_i/angelus/documents/hf_jp-i_ang_10091978_en.html; in an audience with Philippine bishops on 28 September 1978, he further elaborated: According to tales told by ancient men to attain their political objectives "God is the Father." According to what we really know "God is the Mother."
Contesto: We are the objects of undying love on the part of God. We know: he has always his eyes open on us, even when it seems to be dark. He is our father; even more he is our mother. He does not want to hurt us, He wants only to do good to us, to all of us. If children are ill, they have additional claim to be loved by their mother. And we too, if by chance we are sick with badness, on the wrong track, have yet another claim to be loved by the Lord.

“Those who travel in the stratosphere are in danger of not being prudent, when they are full of knowledge acquired purely from books.”

"Letter to St Bernard" in Illustrissimi (1976), p. 53
Contesto: Let me give an example. It is far away in time but a classic case … In 1815, the official French newspaper Le Moniteur, showed its readers how to follow Napoleon's progress: 'The brigand flees from the island of Elba '; 'The usurper arrives at Grenoble'; ' Napoleon enters Lyons'; 'The Emperor reaches Paris this evening'. What an amazing turnabout! This must not be compared with prudence, just as it isn't prudent to have a stubborn attitude and to take no account of what is obviously real or to become excessively rigid and zealously upright, more loyalist than the king, more papist than the pope.
This happens. Some people seize on an idea, then bury it and guard it for the rest of their lives, defending it jealously without ever examining it again, without ever trying to check what has become of it after all the rain and wind and storms of events and changes.
Those who travel in the stratosphere are in danger of not being prudent, when they are full of knowledge acquired purely from books. They can never get away from what is written, are always busy analyzing, pointing out subtleties, perpetually splitting hairs.
Life is quite another matter.

“Put on the cross, not only did he forgive those who crucified him, but he excused them. He said: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." This is Christianity, these are sentiments which, if put into practice would help society so much.”

Angelus (24 September 1978) http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_i/angelus/documents/hf_jp-i_ang_24091978_en.html
Contesto: People sometimes say: "we are in a society that is all rotten, all dishonest." That is not true. There are still so many good people, so many honest people. Rather, what can be done to improve society? I would say: let each of us try to be good and to infect others with a goodness imbued with the meekness and love taught by Christ. Christ's golden rule was: "do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself. Do to others what you want done to yourself." 'And he always gave. Put on the cross, not only did he forgive those who crucified him, but he excused them. He said: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." This is Christianity, these are sentiments which, if put into practice would help society so much.

“The Prioress, Sister Theresa of St Augustine, was the last, and her last words were the following: "Love will always be victorious, love can do everything." That was the right word, not violence, but love, can do everything. Let us ask the Lord for the grace that a new wave of love for our neighbour may sweep over this poor world.”

Angelus (24 September 1978)
Contesto: Pius X, in 1906, right here in Rome, had beatified the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne, martyrs during the French revolution. During the trial they were condemned "to death for fanaticism". And one of them asked in her simplicity: "Your Honour, what does fanaticism mean?" And the judge: "It is your foolish membership of religion." "Oh, Sisters, she then said, did you hear, we are condemned for our attachment to faith. What happiness to die for Jesus Christ!"
They were brought out of the prison of the Conciergerie, and made to climb into the fatal cart. On the way they sang hymns; when they reached the guillotine, one after the other knelt before the Prioress and renewed the vow of obedience. Then they struck up "Veni Creator"; the song, however, became weaker and weaker, as the heads of the poor Sisters fell, one by one, under the guillotine. The Prioress, Sister Theresa of St Augustine, was the last, and her last words were the following: "Love will always be victorious, love can do everything." That was the right word, not violence, but love, can do everything. Let us ask the Lord for the grace that a new wave of love for our neighbour may sweep over this poor world.

“Yesterday, a funny thing happened to me on my way to the Conclave.”

Address to the crowd in St Peter's Square (27 August 1978), the day after his election, as quoted in In God's Name (1987) by David Yallop, p. 132

“Even the young are killing each other.”

Upon hearing that neo-fascist youth had attacked other youth reading a communist paper, as quoted in "From the archive, 30 September 1978: Pope John Paul I dies of heart attack" by George Armstrong, in The Guardian (30 September 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/sep/30/pope-john-paul-1-death-vatican

“I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.”

On being appointed as Bishop of Vittorio Veneto (December 1958), Luciani declined gifts offered to him by the priests of the diocese; as quoted in In God's Name (1984) by David Yallop, p. 44

“I am at best on the C list for Pope.”

Remarks to journalists in August 1978, shortly before departing for the Conclave at which he was elected Pope, as quoted in In God's Name (1984) by David Yallop, Ch. 2 : The Empty Throne

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