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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.

Pope John Paul II

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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Expression God Maturity Servant
To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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Believe Jesus Running
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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Catholic Hatred Light
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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Commitment Mean Self
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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Faith Inspiration Love
Know what you are talking about.
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Jesus Knowing Knowledge Talking
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 greatness of work is inside man.
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Greatness Inside Man Men
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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Praying Reading Scripture
The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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Christian Compassion Pain
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
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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Facts Moral Responsibility
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Itself Prevail Virtue
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Christ Looks May
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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Christ Mother Mystery
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Catholic Church Teaching

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.

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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.

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