The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIBeneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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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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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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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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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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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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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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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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