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• When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of weekend dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can no longer see the heavens.

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  Sports, Sunday, Weekend

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• From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

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  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Share

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Church in India”

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• God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Blood

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• Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

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  Men, Treasure, Talent

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

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  Heart, Church, Eucharist

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• Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.

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  Light, Rosary, Scripture

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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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  Heart, Men, Law

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• Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

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  Disappointment, Attitude, Responsibility

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

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  Children, Race, Years

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

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  Light, World, Mercy

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• When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

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  Prayer, Spring, Silence

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• The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.

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  Responsibility, Feelings, Persons

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• To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.

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  Running, Jesus, Believe

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• Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones. We also offer to your fatherly hands the toil and sacrifices associated with work, in union with your Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed human work from the yoke of sin and restored it to its original dignity.

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  Jesus, Sacrifice, Son

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• It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes.

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  Mistake, Fall, Catholic

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• A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.

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  Men, Christ, Crosses

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “Human Work”

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• Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.

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  Men, Answers, Dignity

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love”, p.119, Loyola Press

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• The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

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  Family, Way, Salvation

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• Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

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  Humanity, Fabric, Violence

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.

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  Peace, Attitude, Names

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• We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.

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  Christian, Sweet, Jesus

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• The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they wish to catch a glimpse of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur and dignity of the priest!

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  Jesus, Wish, Glimpse

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• He has chosen you, in a mysterious but real way, to make you saviors with Him and like Him. Yes, Christ calls you, but He calls you in truth. His call is demanding, because He invites you to let yourselves be 'captured' by Him completely, so that your whole lives will be seen in a different light.

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  Real, Light, Different

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• When we go before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament we represent the one in the world who is in most need of God's Mercy." We "Stand in behalf of the one in the world who does not know Christ and who is farthest away from God and we bring down upon their soul the Precious Blood of The Lamb.

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  Jesus, Blessed, Blood

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• The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.

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  Doe, Littles, Too Much

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