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.’
POPE JOHN PAUL III sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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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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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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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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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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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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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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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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