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If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that...more

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The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. ...more

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All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly ...more

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I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - whi...more

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God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

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The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of t...more

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God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

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Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revela...more

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God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision ...more

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Thus [the altar] brings heaven into the community assembled on earth, or rather it takes the community beyond itself into the communion of saints of a...more

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The formula "the Church is the Body of Christ" thus states that the Eucharist, in which the Lord gives us his body, forever remains the place where th...more

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Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is... One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolat...more

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Thus there is need of deeper reflection. Before entering into an examination of individual texts, we must direct our attention to the whole picture, t...more

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The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

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The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to d...more