…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITruth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThere is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIn the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
POPE JOHN PAUL IIArt 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChrist 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILove is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIFrom 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!
POPE JOHN PAUL IITo the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChrist called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIReason 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 IIThe 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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