The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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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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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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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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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.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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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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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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