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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

Pope John Paul II

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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Catholic Humanity Men
Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Christian People School
Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Heaven Men Sex
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Communication Culture Humans
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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Country Example People Responsibility
Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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Grace Hands Mother
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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Holy Mass Moments
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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Economic Tests Workers
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
How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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Beautiful Christian Rosary
You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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Baby Encouragement Mother
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
A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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Good Leader Littles
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 history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Family Salvation Way
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Attitude Consists Freedom Ought
The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Darkness Tired World
Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Famous Father House Last Words
And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Cfs Feet Shoes
Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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Catholic Jesus Light
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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Commitment Denial Self
If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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Asks Giving Knows
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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Desire Prayer Sacrifice
True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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Lying Mean School
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Family Independence Lying Selfish
Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Hands Heart Landscape
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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Choices Evil Heart

In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

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