The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWhen man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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