1994 - YEAR OF THE FAMILY LETTER TO FAMILIES FROM POPE JOHN PAUL II [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear Families! 1. The celebration of the Year of the Family gives me a welcome opportunity to knock at the door of your home, eager to greet you with deep...
LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II TO ARTISTS 1999 To all who are passionately dedicated to the search for new “epiphanies” of beauty so that through their creative work as artists they may offer these as gifts to the world. God saw all that he had made, and it was very...
John Paul II’s Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps] Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection, hear the...
Jesus Christ, The Redeemer of Man REDEMPTOR HOMINIS On Redemption and the Dignity of the Human Race Pope John Paul II For his very first encylical, Redemptor Hominis, Pope John Paul II chose to focus on the person and work of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the Human Race....
I Am the Vine, You are the Branches The reality of the Church as Communion is … the central content of the ‘mystery’, or rather, the divine plan for the salvation of humanity. By Pope John Paul II [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Mystery of the Vine The...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]HAPTER I -- INTRODUCTION. Romans, the things which have recently happened in your city under Urbicus, and the things which are likewise being everywhere unreasonably done by the governors, have compelled me to frame this composition for your sakes, who are...
SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD FOR PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE JOHN PAUL, BISHOP [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Shepherd of the Lord's whole flock is the Bishop of the Church of Rome, where the Blessed Apostle Peter, by sovereign disposition of divine Providence, offered to Christ the...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]HAPTER I -- ADDRESS. To the Emperor Titus Ælius Adrianus Antoninus Pius Augustus Caesar, and to his son Verissimus the Philosopher, and to Lucius the Philosopher, the natural son of Caesar, and the adopted son of Pius, a lover of learning, and...
This reflection on baptism as illumination or enlightenment was written by St. Justin Martyr around 155AD in Rome and reflects the liturgical practices of not only the Church in that city, but most probably the practice of the Church in Ephesus and Palestine as well,...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]ctober 11, 1962 Mother Church rejoices that, by the singular gift of Divine Providence, the longed-for day has finally dawned when–under the auspices of the virgin Mother of God, whose maternal dignity is commemorated on this feast–the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council...