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• Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.

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  Jesus, Light, Catholic

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• The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are.

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  Animal, Men, Creative

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• People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.

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  People, Desire, Answers

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• 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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  Son, Gone, Surrender

  Pope John Paul II, Margaret R. Bunson (1996). “John Paul II's Book of Mary”, p.181, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.

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  Son, Catholic, Mary

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• The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world. . . . Let Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament speak to your hearts. It is he who is the true answer of life that you seek. He stays here with us: he is God with us. Seek him without tiring, welcome him without reserve, love him without interruption: today, tomorrow, forever.

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  Jesus, Blessed, Heart

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• See everything. Ignore a lot. Improve a little.

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  Littles

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• Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

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  Want, Our Relationship, Relationship With God

  Pope John Paul II, Greg Burke (1999). “An Invitation to Joy”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• God has, in fact, thought of us from eternity and has loved us as unique individuals. He has called every one of us by name, as the Good Shepherd 'calls His sheep by name.'

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  Unique, Sheep, Names

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• Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

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  Depression, God, Spiritual

  "Force of Nature". Book by Dana Mentink (p. 215), December 3, 2013.

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• Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

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  Justice, Violence, Social

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• The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.

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  Children, Sibling, Giving

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• There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

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  Men, Weakness, Needs

  Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.292, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.

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  Beautiful, Blessed, Greatness

  Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.242, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

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  Moving On, Confidence, Godly

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• Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

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  Men, Catholic, Purity And Love

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• A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

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  Home, People, Giving

  Pope John Paul II (1979). “Pilgrim of Peace: The Homilies and Addresses of His Holiness Pope John Paul II on the Occasion of His Visit to the United States of America”

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• You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!

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  Fearless, Needs, World

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• There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

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  Peace, Justice, Fairness

  Pope John Paul II's Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.

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• Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

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  Peace, Lasts, Chance

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• Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

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  Freedom, Hands, Trying

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”

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• God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

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  Catholic, God Is Love, Crosses

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• The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.

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  Christian, Pain, Compassion

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• To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

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  Family, Children, Home

  Pope John Paul II, Tony Castle (1987). “The light of Christ: meditations for every day of the year”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.

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  Uplifting, Heart, Hands

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