Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIBe demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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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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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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