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Words of Blessed John Paul II
The
Synod Fathers wanted Jesus Christ to be heard and understood by the people
entrusted to their care, and by many more.
They saw the need to reach out to those
who live with unfulfilled hopes and desires, to those who are Christians
in name only, and to those who have drifted away from the Church, perhaps
because of painful experiences. Every effort should be made to heal such
wounds, and to return the lost sheep to the fold.
~ Apostolic Exhortation: Ecclesia in Oceania, November 22. 2001 |
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Prayer raises our minds and hearts to God to thank him
for his blessings, to ask him for his help. It brings the saving power of
Jesus Christ into the decisions and actions of everyday life. One prayer in
particular I recommend to families: the one we have just been praying, the
Rosary. ~Greeting in St. Patrick's, Visit to the United Nations and the United States, October 7, 1995 The kingdom aims at transforming human relationships; it grows gradually as people slowly learn to love, forgive and serve one another. ~Redemptoris Missio, December 7, 1990
Mary shares our human
condition, but in complete openness to the grace of God. Not having known
sin, she is able to have compassion on every kind of weakness. She
understands sinful man and loves him with a Mother's love.
~Veritatis Splendor, August 6, 1993 I wish to renew to you the invitation I gave to the entire Church at the beginning of the new millennium: contemplate the face of Christ, his dying face and the face of the risen One! "Jesus' cry on the Cross... is not the cry of anguish of a man without hope, but the prayer of the Son who offers his life to the Father in love, for the salvation of all". It is necessary to welcome this message of hope in one's own life and to proclaim to the world this revelation full of God's Love. ~Address to Third International Convention of ‘Young People to Assisi’, August 9, 2003 No human sin can erase the mercy of God, or prevent him from unleashing all his triumphant power, if we only call upon him. ~Veritatis Splendor, August 6, 1993 |
The breath of the divine life, the Holy Spirit, in its
simplest and most common manner, expresses itself and makes itself felt in
prayer. It is a beautiful and salutary thought that, wherever people are
praying in the world, there the Holy Spirit is, the living breath of prayer.
~Dominum et Vivificantem, Our difficult age has a special need of prayer.
~Dominum et Vivificantem, As a prayer for peace, the Rosary is also, and always has been, a prayer of and for the family. ~Rosarium Virginis Mariae,
Science may help us to correct the mistakes of the past. . . . It is love for our children that will show us the path that we must follow into the future.
~Common Declaration on No human sin can erase the mercy of God, or prevent him from unleashing all his triumphant power, if we only call upon him. Indeed, sin itself makes even more radiant the love of the Father who, in order to ransom a slave, sacrificed his Son: his mercy towards us is Redemption.... No matter how many and great the obstacles put in his way by human frailty and sin, the Spirit, who renews the face of the earth, makes possible the miracle of the perfect accomplishment of the good. This renewal...is in some way the flowering of the gift of mercy, which offers liberation from the slavery of evil and gives the strength to sin no more. ~Veritatis Splendor, August 6, 1993 |
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