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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!

Pope John Paul II

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Family Independence Lying Selfish
The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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Children Giving Siblings
We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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Children Christian Giving
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Country Punishment World
The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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Believe Church Mean
To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Faith Inspiration Tasks
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Family Salvation Way
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Attitude Consists Freedom Ought
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Desire Men Women
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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Communion Important People
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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Beloved Brother Way
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Heart Prayer Spiritual
Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Love Responsibility Sake
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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Praying Reading Scripture
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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Blood Faith Inspiration
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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Christian Essentials Responsibility
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Maturity Men Work
Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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Commitment Mean Self
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Church Counter Cultural
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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Faith Heart Inspiration
The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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Heart Horizon Today
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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Catholic Crosses God Love
Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
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Example Friends Perfection Young
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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Evolution Mean Men Theory
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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Faith Greatness Inspiration
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Creating God Joy Made
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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Country Example People Responsibility

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