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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

The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Hatred Passion Struggle
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Dark Prayer Profound
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Challenges Order Routine
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Choices Conscious Humanity
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Excess Levels People
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Holiday Inspiration
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Continence Life Mean Self
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Maturity Men Work
Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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Host Sacred World
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Justice Social Violence
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Justice
Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Children Pride World
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Crosses God Love
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Child Children Family Newborn
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Fabric Humanity Violence
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Father Jesus

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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