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# Pope Francis on the Sacramental of Place
- URL: https://joshualore.com/inthemiddleway/pope-francis-on-the-sacramental-of-place/
- Published: 2015-11-03T20:25:01.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-03T20:25:01.000Z
- Author: Joshua Lore
- Tags: Uncategorized, #Migrated-1788408094757, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-09-03 00:01

“The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God. The history of our friendship with God is always linked to particular places which take on an intensely personal meaning; we all remember places, and revisiting those memories does us much good. Anyone who has grown up in the hills or used to sit by the spring to drink, or played outdoors in the neighborhood square; going back to these places is a chance to recover something of their true selves.”  
—Pope Francis, #LaudatoSi