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[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he sufferings of this present time are not to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed in us. Who would not strive wholeheartedly to attain to such glory, to become a friend of God and straightway rejoice with...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear brother, the reason why I could not write to you immediately was that all the clergy were embroiled in the heat of the conflict. They could not possibly leave, all of them having prepared themselves for divine and heavenly...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]ur obligation is to do God’s will, and not our own. We must remember this if the prayer that our Lord commanded us to say daily is to have any meaning on our lips. How unreasonable it is to pray...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']H[/dropcaps]ow great is the Lord’s indulgence! How kindly he bends down to us, how he overflows with goodness towards us! For he wishes us to pray in the sight of God in such a way as to call God Fatherand to...

30 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]hrist has clearly added a law here, binding us to a definite condition, that we should ask for our debts to be forgiven us only as much as we ourselves forgive our debtors, knowing that we cannot obtain what we...

30 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]ntroduction   The Second Vatican Council, with its Dogmatic ConstitutionLumen gentium, and its Decrees on Ecumenism (Unitatis redintegratio) and the Oriental Churches (Orientalium Ecclesiarum), has contributed in a decisive way to the renewal of Catholic ecclesiolgy. The Supreme Pontiffs have also contributed to this renewal by...

30 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps] At this moment in the Church's life, the question of the primacy of Peter and of his Successors has exceptional importance as well as ecumenical significance. John Paul II has frequently spoken of this, particularly in the EncyclicalUt unum...

30 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']Y[/dropcaps]our Excellency The International Year of the Family is a particularly important occasion to discover anew the many signs of the Church's love and concern for the family(1) and, at the same time, to present once more the priceless riches of...

30 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]e shall pray without ceasing to the Creator of all things, and beg him to preserve the number of his elect throughout the whole world, through his beloved son Jesus Christ, and not let a single one of them fall...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]ut not to dwell upon ancient examples, let us come to the most recent spiritual heroes. Let us take the noble examples furnished in our own generation. Through envy and jealousy, the greatest and most righteous pillars [of the Church]...

28 January, 2016 /
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