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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

Pope John Paul II

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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Baptism Done Prayer
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Communication Culture Humans
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Christ Looks May
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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Faith Heart Inspiration
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Creating God Joy Made
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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Matter Philosophy Views
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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Faith Father Inspiration
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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Church Lover Religion
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Confined Culture Truth
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Heart Prayer Spiritual
Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Creative might Negative
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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Civilization Hands Heart Uplifting
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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Greatness Life Pro Tests
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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Catholic Justice
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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Faith Holiday Inspiration
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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Environmental Pattern Profound

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