Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChristians, 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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Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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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.
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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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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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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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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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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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