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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

Pope John Paul II

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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Catholic Spirit Suffering
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Christ Looks May
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Men Sacrifice Self
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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Challenges Order Routine
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
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Catholic Silly Stupidity
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Catholic Song Sweet
Know what you are talking about.
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Jesus Knowing Knowledge Talking
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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Beyond Faith Ourselves
We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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Father God Love Sum
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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Flesh Friend Thousand Two Years
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
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Children Jesus Theologian
Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Actors Humanity Order
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
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 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 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
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Atheist Culture Giving
Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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Kindness Long Waiting
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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Heart Prayer Simple
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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Moral Religious Would
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
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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Communion Important People
The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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Littles Pornography Too Much
Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Heaven Men Sex
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

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