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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

Pope John Paul II

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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Compatriots Home Kissing Mother
How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Life Men Productive
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Commitment Denial Self
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Life Matter Return
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Father Inspiration
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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Attempt Evil Men Rights
How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Beautiful Christian Rosary
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Expression God Maturity Servant
Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Inspiration Men
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Beyond Faith Ourselves
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Continence Life Mean Self
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Matter Philosophy Views
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Calculate Catholic Complaining Love Simply
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Maturity Men Work
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Culture Death Life Love
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Life Sacred World

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