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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

Pope John Paul II

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communication Culture Humans
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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Heart Law Men
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Maturity Men Work
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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Art Talent Waste
To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Faith Inspiration Tasks
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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Catholic Love Men Purity
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Catholic Errors Science
What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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Baptism Done Prayer
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Catholic Song Sweet
I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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Adoration Blessed Christian Eucharistic
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.
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Hatred Passion Struggle
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
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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Fabric Humanity Violence
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Catholic Silly Stupidity
The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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Heart Horizon Today
The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Breathe Church Lungs Two
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
Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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Grace Hands Mother
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
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Desire Men Women
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
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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Culture Death Life Love
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
True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
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Beautiful Jesus Living Self True
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Biblical People Tasks
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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Catholic Justice
From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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Gone Son Surrender

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