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You Made Us For Yourself, Lord, And Our Heart Is Restless Until It Rests In You. In This Creative Restlessness Beats And Pulsates What Is Most Deeply Human - The Search For Truth, The Insatiable Need For The Good, Hunger For Freedom, Nostalgia For The Beautiful, And The Voice Of Conscience.

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You Made Us For Yourself, Lord, And Our Heart Is Restless Until It Rests In You. In This Creative Restlessness Beats And Pulsates What Is Most Deeply Human - The Search For Truth, The Insatiable Need For The Good, Hunger For Freedom, Nostalgia For The Beautiful, And The Voice Of Conscience.

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Do Not Abandon Yourselves To Despair. We Are The Easter People And Hallelujah Is Our Song.

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Do Not Forget That True Love Sets No Conditions; It Does Not Calculate Or Complain, But Simply Loves.

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The Cemetery Of The Victims Of Human Cruelty In Our Century Is Extended To Include Yet Another Vast Cemetery, That Of The Unborn.

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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!

The Heart Is Our Hidden Center, Beyond The Grasp Of Our Reason And Of Others; Only The Spirit Of God Can Fathom The Human Heart And Know It Fully. The Heart Is The Place Of Decision, Deeper Than Our Psychic Drives. It Is The Place Of Truth, Where We Choose Life Or Death. It Is The Place Of Encounter.

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Man Cannot Live Without Love. He Remains A Being That Is Incomprehensible For Himself, His Life Is Senseless, If Love Is Not Revealed To Him, If He Does Not Encounter Love, If He Does Not Experience It And Make It His Own, If He Does Not Participate Intimately In It.

The Family That Prays Together, Stays Together.

This Worship, Given Therefore To The Trinity Of The Father And Of The Son And Of The Holy Spirit, Above All Accompanies And Permeates The Celebration Of The Eucharistic Liturgy. But It Must Fill Our Churches Also Outside The Timetable Of Masses. Indeed, Since The Eucharistic Mystery Was Instituted Out Of Love, And Makes Christ Sacramentally Present, It Is Worthy Of Thanksgiving And Worship. And This Worship Must Be Prominent In All Our Encounters With The Blessed Sacrament, Both When We Visit Our Churches And When The Sacred Species Are Taken To The Sick And Administered To Them

The Inviolability Of The Person Which Is A Reflection Of The Absolute Inviolability Of God, Finds Its Primary And Fundamental Expression In The Inviolability Of Human Life. Above All, The Common Outcry, Which Is Justly Made On Behalf Of Human Rights-for Example, The Right To Health, To Home, To Work, To Family, To Culture- Is False And Illusory If The Right To Life, The Most Basic And Fundamental Right And The Condition For All Other Personal Rights, Is Not Defended With Maximum Determination.

Limitation Of One's Freedom Might Seem To Be Something Negative And Unpleasant, But Love Makes It A Positive, Joyful And Creative Thing. Freedom Exists For The Sake Of Love.

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.

The Man Who Wishes To Understand Himself Thoroughly Must With His Unrest, Uncertainty, And Even His Weakness And Sinfulness, With His Life And Death, Draw Near To Christ.

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!

I Sense That The Moment Has Come To Commit All Of The Church's Energies To A New Evangelization... No Believer In Christ, No Institution Of The Church Can Avoid This Supreme Duty: To Proclaim Christ To All Peoples.

Attention Is Riveted On What Is Tangible, Useful, Instantly Available; The Stimulus For Deeper Thought And Reflection May Be Lacking. Yet Human Beings Have A Vital Need For Time And Inner Quiet To Ponder And Examine Life And Its Mysteries... Understanding And Wisdom Are The Fruit Of A Contemplative Eye Upon The World, And Do Not Come From A Mere Accumulation Of Facts, No Matter How Interesting.

The Most Generous Choices, Especially The Persevering, Are The Fruit Of Profound And Prolonged Union With God In Prayerful Silence.

From Now On It Is Only Through A Conscious Choice And Through A Deliberate Policy That Humanity Can Survive.

The Church Counters The Culture Of Death With The Culture Of Love.

St. Joseph Was A Just Man, A Tireless Worker, The Upright Guardian Of Those Entrusted To His Care. May He Always Guard, Protect And Enlighten Families.

The Church Must Persist In The Teaching Transmitted To Her By Christ.

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.

In The Eucharistic Sacrifice The Church Venerates The Memory Of Mary The Ever Virgin Mother Of God And The Memory Of Saint Joseph, Because He Fed Him Whom The Faithful Must Eat As The Bread Of Life

The Human Person Is A Unique Composite - A Unity Of Spirit And Matter, Soul And Body, Fashioned In The Image Of God And Destined To Live Forever. Every Human Life Is Sacred, Because Every Human Person Is Sacred.

The Conviction Which We Must Share And Spread Is That The Call To Holiness Is Directed To All Christians. This Is Not A Question Of Privilege Or Of Spiritual Elitism. It Is A Question Of A Grace Offered To All The Baptized.

The History Of Mankind, The History Of Salvation, Passes By Way Of The Family.

Without Wonder, Men And Women Would Lapse Into Deadening Routine And Little By Little Would Become Incapable Of A Life Which Is Genuinely Personal.

A Just Wage For The Worker Is The Ultimate Test Of Whether Any Economic System Is Functioning Justly.

Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide Are Never Acceptable Acts Of Mercy. They Always Gravely Exploit The Suffering And Desperate, Extinguishing Life In The Name Of The 'quality Of Life' Itself.

Prayer Can Truly Change Your Life. For It Turns Your Attention Away From Yourself And Directs Your Mind And Your Heart Toward The Lord. If We Look Only At Ourselves, With Our Own Limitations And Sins, We Quickly Give Way To Sadness And Discouragement. But If We Keep Our Eyes Fixed On The Lord, Then Our Hearts Are Filled With Hope, Our Minds Are Washed N The Light Of Truth, And We Come To Know The Fullness Of The Gospel With All Is Promise And Life.

Christian Holiness Does Not Being Sinless, But Rather It Means Struggling Not To Give In And Always Getting Up After Every Fall.

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.

The Rosary Is A Prayer Both So Humble And Simple And A Theologically Rich In Biblical Content. I Beg You To Pray It.

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.

With Supernatural Intuition Blessed Josemaria Untiringly Preached The Universal Call To Holiness And Apostolate. Christ Calls Everyone To Become Holy In The Realities Of Everyday Life. Hence Work Too Is A Means Of Personal Holiness And Apostolate When It Is Done In Union With Jesus Christ

Young Friends, Do Not Hesitate To Follow The Example Of Pedro, Who 'pleased God And Was Loved By Him' And Who, Having Come To Perfection In So Short A Time, Lived A Full Life.

Apart From The Mercy Of God, There Is No Other Source Of Hope For Mankind.

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