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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

Pope John Paul II

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Biblical People Tasks
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Church Counter Cultural
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
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Communication Culture Humans
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
Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Mean Nation Past War
Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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Catholic Eucharistic Lives Make
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
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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Children Parent School
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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Hate Inspirational Love
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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Anniversary Family Love
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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Calculate Catholic Complaining Love Simply
The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Breathe Church Lungs Two
The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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Church Men Spirit
There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Fairness Justice Peace
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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Catholic Foundation Honor
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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Coffee Noon Slavery
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Heart Prayer Spiritual
The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Blessed Earth Way
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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Dark Prayer Profound
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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Catholic Love Men Purity
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Child Children Family Newborn
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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Memories Mother Sacrifice
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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Fabric Humanity Violence
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
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Catholic Song Sweet
The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Horizon Today

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