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Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

Pope John Paul II

A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Hope Nations People Without
Your 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 II

Blessed Jesus Waiting
A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Persons Treated Use
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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Dream Future Inspiration
None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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Humanity Mosaics Pieces
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
Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Men Way World
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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Darkness Tired World
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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Men Talent Treasure
Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Heaven Men Sex
Know what you are talking about.
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Jesus Knowing Knowledge Talking
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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Children Parent School
[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.
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Age Perfect Soul
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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Expression God Maturity Servant
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Confined Culture Truth
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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Husband Life Love
The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Generosity Measure Success
Yes, 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 II

Faith Father Inspiration
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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Christian Holy Eucharist Thursday
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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Culture Death Life Love
How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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Beautiful Christian Rosary
The 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.
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Hatred Passion Struggle
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Family Salvation Way
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.’
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Church Men Spirit
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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Civilization Hands Heart Uplifting
The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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Church Eucharist Heart
Artistic 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 II

Art Talent Waste

Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

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