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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….

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….

Pope John Paul II
Responsibility, Catholic, Doe

Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.

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Christ, Risking Your Life, Capable

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.

Pope John Paul II
Catholic, Eucharistic

God has, in fact, thought of us from eternity and has loved us as unique individuals. He has called every one of us by name, as the Good Shepherd 'calls His sheep by name.'

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Unique, Sheep, Names

War is a defeat for humanity.

Pope John Paul II
Peace, War, Humanity
Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.

Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!

Pope John Paul II
War, Hatred, Intolerance
Pope John Paul II's Address on arrival at the Sarajevo Airport, during his apostolic journey to Bosnia-Herzegovina, w2.vatican.va. April 12, 1997.

Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.

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Heart, Dedication, People

In this silence of the white Host, carried in the Monstrance, are all His words; there is His whole life given in offering to the Father for each of us; there is also the glory of the glorified body, which started with the Resurrection, and still continues in Heavenly union.

Pope John Paul II
Father, White, Offering

My desire is for the young people of the entire world to come closer to Mary. She is the bearer of an indelible youthfulness and beauty that never wanes. May young people have increasing confidence in her and may they entrust their lives to her.

Pope John Paul II
People, Desire, World

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

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.

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Important, Life Is, Christ
Pope John Paul II (2013). “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, p.126, Knopf

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

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Pope John Paul II
Peace, War, Men

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”

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.

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Destiny, Men, Hands
Pope John Paul II (2013). “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, p.26, Knopf

Know what you are talking about.

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Knowledge, Knowing Jesus, Talking

Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine

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Son, Shining, Roles

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

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

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Responsibility, Feelings, Persons

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.

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Men, Care, May
Pope John Paul II (1981). “Apostolic Exhortation, the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World: Familiaris Consortio”

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.

Pope John Paul II
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

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

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Light, World, Mercy

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.

Pope John Paul II
Running, Jesus, Believe

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

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

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

Pope John Paul II
Light, Rosary, Scripture

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