May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMay you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMen and women will retain their sex in heaven
POPE JOHN PAUL IINot all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIHumanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAnd 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAs the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIFurthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWe are the sum of the Father’s love for us
POPE JOHN PAUL IITreating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITruth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChrist remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITrue 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChastity 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II