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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

Pope John Paul II

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Catholic Men Suffering
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
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Catholic Church Teaching
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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Children Family Home
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
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Faith Holiday Inspiration
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Men Sacrifice Self
The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
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Grace Priceless Treasure
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
A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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Good Leader Littles
I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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Church Energy Moments
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
A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Persons Treated Use
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Choices Conscious Humanity
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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Church Lover Religion
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
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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Beyond Faith Ourselves

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