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 IIYou, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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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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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
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Another name for peace is development.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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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.
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