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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.

Pope John Paul II

Christ 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.
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Continuously God Heart Joy Prayer
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Communication Culture Humans
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Catholic Past War
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Art Purpose Spirit
Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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Evil Jesus Prayer
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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Praying Reading Scripture
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Catholic Song Sweet
Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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Thinking Tragedy Two
[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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Age Perfect Soul
What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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Brother Secret Spokes
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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Facts Moral Responsibility
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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Economic Tests Workers
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 United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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Children Race Years
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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Desire Prayer Sacrifice
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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Holy Mass Moments

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.

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