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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIn the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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And 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.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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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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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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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.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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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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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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