Tag: Blessed Pope John Paul II
Daily Catholic Quote from Blessed John Paul II
“To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom.” (Blessed John Paul II; The Gospel of Life, 20) Please help [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from Blessed John Paul II
“It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness, he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from Blessed John Paul II
“The heart of every culture is its approach to the greatest of all mysteries: the mystery of God. Our respect for the culture of others is therefore rooted in our respect for each community’s attempt to answer the question of human life. And here we can see how important it is to safeguard the fundamental [...]
Joyful at Work
How often do we do something beautiful for God at work? I mean, not the ordinary things we do at work, but the times when we think of God, and move forward with joy, and intentionally do our work with the idea that our work is something beautiful for God. Consider the plethora of opportunities [...]
Jesus and His Message of Divine Mercy
On March 31st, we celebrated Easter Sunday. But the celebration did not end then, it continues. There are presently two Solemnities that are “continued” for eight days (Octave) – that is, days 2 through 8 of the Octave are celebrated liturgically as one would celebrate a Solemnity. One is Christmas and the other is Easter. The [...]
My Conversion to Divine Mercy
When I first entered Mount St. Mary’s seminary in Maryland, I met some fellow seminarians with a devotion to the Divine Mercy. They would often get together and recite the chaplet together. I was invited on several occasions to join them, but I always politely declined. I thought I didn’t need another devotion and preferred [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from Blessed John Paul II
“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!” (Blessed John Paul II) Please help us in our mission to assist readers to integrate their Catholic [...]
Speaking with Christopher West about “Fill These Hearts”
I remember so clearly when I first “met” Christopher West. I had picked up a CD of one of his talks after a Jason Evert talk at a neighboring parish. I was stuffing envelopes in our parish office, pregnant and wondering if this “Theology of the Body” stuff was really worth fiddling with, when I [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from Blessed John Paul II
“True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.” (Blessed John Paul II) Please help us in our mission to assist readers to integrate their Catholic faith, [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from Blessed John Paul II
“The Second Vatican Council has invited all the lay faithful to this unity of life by forcefully decrying the grave consequences in separating faith from life, and the gospel from culture: ‘The Council exhorts Christians, as citizens of one city and the other, to strive to perform their earthly duties faithfully in response to the [...]
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