I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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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.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
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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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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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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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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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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.
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. 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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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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