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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

Pope John Paul II

If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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Asks Giving Knows
In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

God Heart Jesus Love
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
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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Action Catholic Soul
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Artist Beauty Talent
Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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Dignity Men Praise
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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Dying Treats Vulnerable
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Church Counter Cultural
When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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God Men Order Peace
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
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Faith Father Jesus
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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Countries Country Historical Socialist
Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Hands Heart Landscape
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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Church Hate Hatred
The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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Faith Inspiration Reality
Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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Host Sacred World
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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Catholic Faith Inspiration

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