Viva Papa Francisco

Sarah, from the USA: "Pope Francis is very, very dear to my heart, mostly because of his incredible love and joy, his caringness for the poor and for those who need it most. He really brings us back to what true humanity is and what it means to be a Christian in the most simple and most profound sense of the word: in just following Christ and loving each person for who they are and who God made them to be, and not for their certain qualities or their physical beauty or anything like that. Just the heart that God gave them is all that we need to love and that's exactly what he shows to us. He's such a beautiful example that we can follow in our daily lives and it's something that the whole world has noticed, and not even necessarily Catholics or Christians, but everybody has noticed his love and he inspires everybody to act that way." Papa Francesco: "Mañana es la fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Patrona de toda América. Con esta ocasión, deseo saludar a los hermanos y hermanas de ese Continente, y lo ha

Michael, from Brooklyn, New York: "I’m really happy and excited about Pope Francis and the way he’s reaching out to everybody and bringing in a lot of new people to the Church. When Pope Benedict resigned I was sad, I admit I was very sad, it was hard to handle. I mean, you know him for so long, you get to know him, to love him a lot, so to see him resign was hard. I knew the reason he did it, he explained it well, but it was just hard to see him go. But when he resigned and we got Pope Francis, I started to realise, 'wow, that was a very wise decision', I started to see that, because Pope Francis has a charism that compliments both Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul II." Papa Francesco: "Vergine Santa e Immacolata, a Te, che sei l’onore del nostro popolo e la custode premurosa della nostra città, ci rivolgiamo con confidenza e amore. Tu sei la Tutta Bella, o Maria! Il peccato non è in Te. Suscita in tutti noi un rinnovato desiderio di santità: nella nostra parola rifulga lo splendore della verità, nelle nostre

Giulia, from Rome: "I think Papa Francisco is a model of a priest if you are looking for someone you can really find on the street. So it’s a very good opportunity for people who don’t believe in God to see how is the Church, how it should be and how it is if you are curious, if you are really interested in understanding what is the Church, the Catholic Church." Papa Francesco: "..Preghiamo insieme la Vergine Maria, perché ci aiuti, Vescovo e Popolo, a camminare nella fede e nella carità, fiduciosi sempre nella misericordia del Signore: Lui sempre ci aspetta, ci ama, ci ha perdonato con il suo sangue e ci perdona ogni volta che andiamo da Lui a chiedere il perdono. Abbiamo fiducia nella sua misericordia!"- 7.04.13. Music by Joe Zambon: Overjoyed. For much more, visit Totus2us which is dedicated to Our Lady and inspired by our holy fathers Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Mary.

Giulia, da Roma: "Per me questa elezione del Papa Francesco rappresenta una buona possibilità per molte persone che non hanno altro modo di conoscere dei preti o delle persone della Chiesa come aiutato io che mi hanno portato a convertire a 33 anni. Si vero presenta un opportunità molto plateale per tutti di conoscere qual è la verità, qual è la vera identità della Chiesa chi e una Chiesa appartiene a Cristo. E quindi quando ci sono degli esempi cosi belli sia la capacità di capire esattamente cosi intendeva Cristo quando voleva edificare la sua Chiesa." Papa Francesco: "..Preghiamo insieme la Vergine Maria, perché ci aiuti, Vescovo e Popolo, a camminare nella fede e nella carità, fiduciosi sempre nella misericordia del Signore: Lui sempre ci aspetta, ci ama, ci ha perdonato con il suo sangue e ci perdona ogni volta che andiamo da Lui a chiedere il perdono. Abbiamo fiducia nella sua misericordia!"- 7.04.13. Music by Joe Zambon: Overjoyed. For much more, visit Totus2us which is dedicated to Our Lady and inspir

Erin, from the US and 1 of the Totus2us team: "First of all I want to say how grateful I am that we have a Jesuit pope. I was instructed in the faith and baptised by a Jesuit priest and the Jesuits have been such an anchor in my own personal faith, and I think it's wonderful as well that we can look forward to a pontificate that perhaps will also embody a Franciscan spirit … There was a meeting with journalists, people from the media and I was listening to Pope Francis speak to these journalists and he said something that just made me stand still and I was really deeply touched by. It seemed not a departure from the past, but just something new, something I really haven't heard a past pope say before or he was saying the same thing but in a new way .. He simply said 'I know that some of you don't belong don't belong to the Catholic Church, I know that some of you are non-believers, so I'm going to give you my blessing in silence, respecting the conscience of each individual because all of you are sons of God.

Ruth, from the Totus2us team: "We got quite close up in St Peter’s Square, close enough up to be able to see and I’d thought 'well, I’m not going to know who he is most probably' and when it was announced, I was dip-sticky about it. In fact no-one around us had much of an idea who Jorge Mario Bergoglio was. I’d read some biographies but was getting it all in a muddle. So the man that we met, for most of us in the crowd, was the man presented to us. The way in which Pope Francis came out and met his flock, his diocese of Rome and all those from the universal Church who were based in Rome, moved hearts just like that. He came out and spent quite a little bit of time just in total silence, before saying anything at all, like he was allowing himself to really live in the present moment and be open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. John Paul II had started by saying that he was a pope from lontana and Papa Francisco said that the cardinals had had to go to the ends of the world to find him. Then there was a pr

Sister Teresita, from South Korea, in Italian and Korean: "Sono molto contenta per l'elezione del nuovo Papa Francesco. Lui è un uomo umile e anche giusto che mi piace molto." Music by Joe Zambon: Overjoyed. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us.