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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

Pope John Paul II
Heart, Church, Eucharist

The Church must breathe with her two lungs!

Pope John Paul II
Two, Church, Breathe
Pope John Paul II (1995). “Ut Unum Sint: On Commitment to Ecumenism”

The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease

Pope John Paul II
Jesus, Waiting, Church
Pope John Paul II (1994). “Letters to My Brother Priests”, Midwest Theological Forum

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.

Pope John Paul II
Church, Energy, Moments
Pope John Paul II (1991). “Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate”

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

Pope John Paul II
Religion, Church, Lovers

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

Pope John Paul II
Church, Culture
Pope John Paul II (2002). “Pope John Paul II in My Own Words”, Gramercy Books

The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.

Pope John Paul II
Believe, Mean, Church
Pope John Paul II (1991). “Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate”

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

Pope John Paul II
Teaching, Catholic, Church

Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.' I repeat, 'By anyone.'

Pope John Paul II
Hate, Hatred, Church
Pope John Paul II (1995). “Spiritual Pilgrimage: Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995”, Herder & Herder

In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Church
John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.171, CUA Press

United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.

Pope John Paul II
Angel, Holy Eucharist, Church

Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith.

Pope John Paul II
Blessed, Important, Church
Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns 'to be with Him.'

Pope John Paul II
Men, Church, Spirit

The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

Pope John Paul II
Teaching, Mean, Church

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