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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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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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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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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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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