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• With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.

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  Christian, School, People

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• Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Evil

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• Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority, nationalism and ethnic exclusivism. No less pernicious, though not always as obvious, are the effects of materialistic consumerism, in which the exaltation of the individual and the selfish satisfaction of personal aspirations become the ultimate goal of life. In this outlook, the negative effects on others are considered completely irrelevant.

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  Selfish, Eye, Goal

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• The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

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  Family, Lying, Selfish

  Pope John Paul II (1984). “John Paul II and the Laity”, Le Jacq Pub

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• 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, Prayer, Humble

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• Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.

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  Mercy Of God, Mercy, Source

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• You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.

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  Mother, Baby, Encouragement

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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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  Mother, Hands, Grace

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• The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Mean

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• Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

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  Inspirational, Trust, Betrayal

  "Apostolic Exhortation, the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World: Familiaris Consortio".

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• 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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  War, Past, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.

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  Mean, Race, People

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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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  Children, Pride, World

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• The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.

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  Nature, Land, Faithful

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Unity in the work of service: on the occasion of his second pastoral visit to the United States”, United States Catholic Conference

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• Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

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  Honesty, Forgiving God, Sin

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Unity in the work of service: on the occasion of his second pastoral visit to the United States”, United States Catholic Conference

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• Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.

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  Football, Important, Subjects

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• Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

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  Men, Catholic, Suffering

  Pope John Paul II, Carlos Rodríguez, John Troy (1993). “Visit of Pope John Paul II to Uganda: 5th to 10th February, 1993 : Gulu, Kasese, Soroti”

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• It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

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  Men, Dignity, Duty

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• Believers do not surrender. They can continue on their way to the truth because they are certain that God has created them "explorers", whose mission is to leave no stone unturned, though the temptation to doubt is always there. Leaning on God, they continue to reach out, always and everywhere, for all that is beautiful, good, and true.

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  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

  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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• Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….

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  Responsibility, Catholic, Doe

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• We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.

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  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to acquire his or her own identity. Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace.

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  Religious, Mean, Community

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• To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope.

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  Evil, Giving, Soul

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• May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar

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  Jesus, Feet, World

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• Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.

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  Freedom, Justice, Expectations

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