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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church Energy Moments
The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Compassion Pain
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Excess Levels People
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Choices Conscious Humanity
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Prayer Spiritual
It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Challenges Inspire Levels
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Dark Prayer Profound
Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Creative might Negative
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Children Family Home
To reach peace, teach peace.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Peace Reach Teach
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Creating God Joy Made
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Confidence Godly Moving
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Economic Tests Workers
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Continence Life Mean Self
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Coincidence Design
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Art Talent Waste

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

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