In Your Eyes I See My Words, Volume 3 brings together the homilies and speeches of Archbishop Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from 2009 through his election as Pope Francis on March 13, 2013. These writings provide an intimate glimpse into the theological, philosophical, scientific, and cultural-educational currents that forged the steady, loving, and nurturing leadership style with which Bergoglio guided the Church in Buenos Aires. That style has now done the same for the Church from Rome, a Church rocked by financial and moral scandals, and a world shaken by the first global pandemic in a century.
These writings were kneaded—a word he uses when talking about the work of molding the souls and character of youth and seminarians—in the relationships he formed in his bus rides to work and in his intense contact with all segments of the population. Because of that careful and prayerful process of kneading they have found their full development in Bergoglio’s writing as Pope Francis, especially in Evangelii gaudium (November 2013); Gaudete et exsultate, On the call to sanctity (March 2018); and his encyclical Laudato si’ (May 2015). In this final volume of Bergoglio’s homilies and papers we meet European theologians and thinkers such as Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, and Bergoglio’s Uruguayan philosopher and friend, Methol Ferré, the literary figure Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Enrique Santos Discépolo, a singer and composer of tangos that decry corruption.
In a prophetic conclusion, the last homily of this volume is an outline of the roadmap Pope Francis has followed throughout his papacy: one defined by ongoing love and care for God’s people and that seeks to spread God’s merciful anointing to those living on the margins of life.
- Cover
- In Your Eyes I See My Words
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Translator’s Notes
- List of Abbreviations
- 2009
- The Meaning and Importance of Academic Preparation
- To Fast Is to Love
- Our Country Has a Believing Soul
- We Are Anointed to Anoint
- The Stone Has Been Moved
- Open Your Heart to the Light
- The Spirit Makes Us Missionaries
- What Do You Want Me to Do?
- We Recover the Memory of His Love
- Pastoral Care for the Church in Argentina Drawn from Aparecida
- “With Saint Cajetan We Seek Justice, Bread, and Work”
- “Cry Out Full-Throated and Unsparingly”
- It Is Urgent to Build and Establish the Culture of Encounter
- To Repay the Social Debt
- Mother, Your Gaze Renews Our Hope
- To Purify the Temple
- He Is the One Who Will Give the Definitive Meaning to Your Suffering, Your Pain
- 2010
- A Christian Heart Is Never on Vacation
- Habituation Is a Brake, a Callus That Imprisons the Soul
- Empty Your Hearts. Make Room for Our Lord to Enter
- Priestly Formation Today: Intellectual, Communitarian, Apostolic, and Spiritual Dimensions
- Our God Came to Become Patient for My Sins
- Consecrated to Anoint
- Why Do You Seek the Living One among the Dead?
- Teach Children the Ability to Dream
- The Homeland Is a Gift That We Must Grow in the Present and Project into the Future
- Let Us Recover the Memory of Our Mother and Ask Her Not to Abandon Us
- The Priest in the City in Light of the Aparecida Document
- “I Am with You Always, Until the End of the Age”
- We Cannot Equate What Is Different
- If We Wash Our Hands, We Are Accomplices to This Slavery
- We Walk with Faith, Praying for Your Protection
- We Need Witnesses More Than Teachers
- “Mother, We Desire a Homeland for All”
- Toward a Bicentennial of Justice and Solidarity: We as Citizens, We as a People
- To Die Is to Place Oneself in His Hands
- We Are Called to Live as Children with a Meek Heart
- He Will Come a Second Time
- 2011
- Ironing out the Wrinkles of the Heart
- The Fast That God Wants
- Mary Receives and Accompanies Life
- They Were Killed by Slave Labor
- The Truth That Shines Brightest Is the Truth of the Father’s Mercy
- Beyond the Grave There Is Always Hope
- Do Not Fear Joy
- A Proposal for Justice and Love to a Disillusioned World
- Together with Mary, the Woman Who “Is There”
- Humility Rekindles Our Confidence
- We Share the “Salt of Life”
- Joy Is Rooted When We Get down to Work
- God Lives in the City
- Teach Us to Strive so That This City Will Have No More Slaves
- “Mother, Help Us to Care for Life”
- Everything Is Grace, Tangible Grace Shed for Love
- The Spirit of Christmas
- If We Do Not Feel Marginalized, We Are Not Invited
- 2012
- To Combat Habituation, Return to the Roots of Faith
- Welcome Life Not in Luxury Packaging
- We Ask for the Grace to Cry
- Remain in the Anointing
- This Night Shall Be as Bright as Day
- Let Us Accompany the Harmony of a Growing Heart
- Reciprocal and Radical Faith Is the Fruit of Love
- We Make Room for Everyone to Enter
- We Carry with Us Only What We Gave
- Open All the Doors to Faith
- Keep Yourselves Unstained by the World
- Where Is Your Enslaved Brother?
- Crossing the Threshold of Faith
- Mother, Teach Us to Work for Justice
- 2013
- Rend Your Hearts, Not Your Garments
- Allow Yourself to Be Reconciled with God
- The Anointing Reaches the Margins
- Index of Scriptural References
- General Index