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No One Else Can Want For Me. No One Can Substitute His Act Of Will For Mine. It Does Sometimes Happen That Someone Very Much Wants Me To Want What He Wants. This Is The Moment When The Impassable Frontier Between Him And Me, Which Is Drawn By Free Will, Becomes Most Obvious. I May Not Want That Which He Wants Me To Want - And In This Precisely I Am Incommunicabilis. I Am, And I Must Be, Independent In My Actions. All Human Relationships Are Posited On This Fact.

-Pope John Paul II

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No One Else Can Want For Me. No One Can Substitute His Act Of Will For Mine. It Does Sometimes Happen That Someone Very Much Wants Me To Want What He Wants. This Is The Moment When The Impassable Frontier Between Him And Me, Which Is Drawn By Free Will, Becomes Most Obvious. I May Not Want That Which He Wants Me To Want - And In This Precisely I Am Incommunicabilis. I Am, And I Must Be, Independent In My Actions. All Human Relationships Are Posited On This Fact.

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In The Designs Of Providence, There Are No Mere Coincidences.

It Is Unbecoming For A Cardinal To Ski Badly.

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.

From This Moment On, Live The Eucharist Fully; Be Persons For Whom The Holy Mass, Communion, And Eucharistic Adoration Are The Center And Summit Of Their Whole Life.

Humankind, Which Discovers Its Capacity To Transform And In A Certain Sense Create The World Through Its Own Work, Forgets That This Is Always Based On God's Prior And Original Gift Of Things That Are. People Think That They Can Make Arbitrary Use Of The Earth, Subjecting It Without Restraint To Their Wills, As Though The Earth Did Not Have Its Own Requisites And A Prior God-given Purpose, Which Human Beings Can Indeed Develop But Must Not Betray.

Jesus Christ Has Taken The Lead On The Way Of The Cross. He Has Suffered First. He Does Not Drive Us Toward Suffering But Shares It With Us, Wanting Us To Have Life And To Have It In Abundance.

The Obligation To Earn One's Bread By The Sweat Of One's Brow Also Presumes The Right To Do So. A Society In Which This Right Is Systematically Denied, In Which Economic Policies Do Not Allow Workers To Reach Satisfactory Levels Of Employment, Cannot Be Justified From An Ethical Point Of View, Nor Can That Society Attain Social Peace.

It Would Appear That, On The Level Of Individual Nations And Of International Relations, The Free Market Is The Most Efficient Instrument For Utilizing Resources And Effectively Responding To Needs.

Through The Rosary The Faithful Receive Abundant Grace, As Though From The Very Hands Of The Mother Of The Redeemer.

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.

Only Through The Eucharist Is It Possible To Live The Heroic Virtues Of Christianity: Charity, To The Point Of Forgiving One's Enemies; Love For Those Who Make Us Suffer; Chastity In Every Age And Situation Of Life; Patience In Suffering And When One Is Shocked By The Silence Of God In The Tragedies Of History Or Of One's Own Personal Existence. You Must Always Be Eucharistic Souls In Order To Be Authentic Christians

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.

To Be Actively Pro-life Is To Contribute To The Renewal Of Society Through The Promotion Of The Common Good. It Is Impossible To Further The Common Good Without Acknowledging And Defending The Right To Life, Upon Which All The Other Inalienable Rights Of Individuals Are Founded And From Which They Develop.

Never Again War! Never Again Hatred And Intolerance!

You, Too, Be Courageous! The World Needs Convinced And Fearless Witnesses. It Is Not Enough To Discuss, It Is Necessary To Act!

Our Communal Worship At Mass Must Go Together With Our Personal Worship Of Jesus In Eucharistic Adoration In Order That Our Love May Be Complete

Economic Activity, Especially The Activity Of A Market Economy, Cannot Be Conducted In An Institutional, Juridical Or Political Vacuum. On The Contrary, It Presupposes Sure Guarantees Of Individual Freedom And Private Property, As Well As A Stable Currency And Efficient Public Services.

Peoples Of The Entire World Need To Hear These Words. Their Conscience Needs To Grow In The Certainty That Someone Exists Who Holds In His Hands The Destiny Of This Passing World... And This Someone Is Love- Love That Became Man, Love Crucified And Risen, Love Unceasingly Present Among Men. It Is Eucharistic Love.

Deepen You Knowledge Of Jesus Which Ends Loneliness, Overcomes Sadness And Uncertainty, Gives Real Meaning To Life, Curbs Passions, Exalts Ideals, Expands Energies In Charity, Brings Light Into Decisive Choices. Let Christ Be For You The Way, The Truth, And The Life.

We Are All One Family In The World. Building A Community That Empowers Everyone To Attain Their Full Potential Through Each Of Us Respecting Each Other's Dignity, Rights And Responsibilities Makes The World A Better Place To Live.

Respect For Life And For The Dignity Of The Human Person Also Extends To The Rest Of Creation, Which Is Called To Join Man In Praising God.

Gandhi Was Much More Christian Than Many People Who Say They Are Christians.

Faced With The Sacredness Of Life And Of The Human Person, And Before The Marvels Of The Universe, Wonder Is The Only Appropriate Attitude.

The Most Profound And Serious Indication Of The Moral Implications Underlying The Ecological Problem Is The Lack Of Respect For Life Evident In Many Of The Patterns Of Environmental Pollution.

Utilitarianism Is A Civilization Of Production And Of Use, A Civilization Of "things" And Not Of "persons," A Civilization In Which Persons Are Used In The Same Way As Things Are Used. In The Context Of A Civilization Of Use, Woman Can Become An Object For Man, Children A Hindrance To Parents, The Family An Institution Obstructing The Freedom Of Its Members.

We Are The People Of Life, Because God, In His Unconditional Love, Has Given Us The Gospel Of Life, And We Are Called To Act Accordingly.

Unconditional Love

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….

An Important Day In A Young Person's Life Is The Day On Which He Becomes Convinced That Christ Is The Only Friend Who Will Not Disappoint Him, On Which He Can Always Count.

There Is A Growing Threat To The Environment, To The Vegetation, Animals, Water And Air. Sacred Scripture Hands Us The Image Of Cain Who Rejects His Responsibility: 'am I My Brother's Keeper?' The Bible Shows The Human Person As His Brother's Keeper And The Guardian Of Creation Which Has Been Entrusted To Him.

I Cannot Fail To Note Once Again That The Poor Constitute The Modern Challenge, Especially For The Well-off Of Our Planet, Where Millions Of People Live In Inhuman Conditions And Many Are Literally Dying Of Hunger. It Is Not Possible To Announce God The Father To These Brothers And Sisters Without Taking On The Responsibility Of Building A More Just Society In The Name Of Christ.

For A Stalk To Grow Or A Flower To Open There Must Be Time That Cannot Be Forced; Nine Months Must Go By For The Birth Of A Human Child; To Write A Book Or Compose Music Often Years Must Be Dedicated To Patient Research ...to Find The Mystery There Must Be Patience, Interior Purification, Silence, Waiting.

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?

What Really Matters In Life Is That We Are Loved By Christ And That We Love Him In Return

The 25th Anniversary Of The Decision ... Is A Call To People Of Good Will To Reflect. Now Is The Time For Recommitment To The Building Of A Culture Of Absolute Respect For Life.

Real Love Is Demanding. I Would Fail In My Mission If I Did Not Clearly Tell You So. For It Was Jesus - Our Jesus Himself - Who Said: 'you Are My Friends If You Do What I Command You'. Love Demands Effort And A Personal Commitment To The Will Of God. It Means Discipline And Sacrifice, But It Also Means Joy And Human Fulfilment.

In Suffocating The Voice Of Conscience, Passion Carries With Itself A Restlessness Of The Body And The Senses: It Is The Restlessness Of The "external Man." When The Internal Man Has Been Reduced To Silence, Then Passion, Once It Has Been Given Freedom Of Action, So To Speak, Exhibits Itself As An Insistent Tendency To Satisfy The Senses And The Body.

The Most Urgent Task Is That Of The Biblical And Liturgical Formation Of The People Of God.

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.

Holidays And Vacations Can Help To Balance Activity With Contemplation, Haste With More Natural Rhythms, Noise With The Heralding Silence Of Peace.

The Vow Of Celibacy Is A Matter Of Keeping One's Word To Christ And The Church. A Duty And A Proof Of The Priest's Inner Maturity; It Is The Expression Of His Personal Dignity.

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