We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWhat have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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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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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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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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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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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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What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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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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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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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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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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Another name for peace is development.
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To reach peace, teach 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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Know what you are talking about.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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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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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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