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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

Pope John Paul II

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
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communion Important People
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Communication Culture Humans
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Country Punishment World
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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Catholic Spirit Suffering
The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Blessed Earth Way
Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Eye Suffering
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Art Purpose Spirit
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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Thinking Tragedy Two
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Continence Life Mean Self
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.
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Creative might Negative
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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Children Parent School
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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Blessed Jesus Waiting
Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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Kindness Long Waiting
Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Hands Heart Landscape
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Moral Religious Would

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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