The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITake 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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Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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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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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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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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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.
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Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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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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