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 IIThe Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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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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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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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 should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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