From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIFrom this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIPray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe only way to peace is forgiveness.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
POPE JOHN PAUL IINone of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILove is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIYour faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIOnce 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.’
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 II[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAnd Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIYes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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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