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 IIIn Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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 urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.
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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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Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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