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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThus 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 IIThe most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL III 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILet science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIArtistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIYou are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Family that prays together, stays together.
POPE JOHN PAUL IICommending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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 IIThrough the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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