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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.

Pope John Paul II

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Art Purpose Spirit
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
An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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Christ Important Life
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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Catholic Foundation Honor
The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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Littles Pornography Too Much
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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Christian Holy Eucharist Thursday
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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Catholic Faith Inspiration
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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Choices Evil Heart
The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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Christian Humble Prayer
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.
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Faith Father Inspiration
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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Faith Family Inspiration
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.
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Expression God Maturity Servant
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 distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Catholic Christian Suffering
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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Abortion Priorities Rights
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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Catholic Crosses God Love
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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Action Catholic Soul
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
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Art Color Nourish Unique
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 universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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Believe Church Mean
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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Christian Essentials Responsibility
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Men Sacrifice Self
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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Catholic Humanity Men
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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Culture Death Life Love
Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
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Healing Kindness Light
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
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.
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Dark Prayer Profound

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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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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