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Savour in fullness the joy that is born of truth

… Love the word of God and love the Church, and this will give you access to a treasure of very great value and will teach you how to appreciate its richness. Love and follow the Church, for it has received from its Founder the mission of showing people the way to true happiness. It… Read More ›

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Our Age is Marked by a Great Crisis

In the light of these and other texts of the New Testament it is possible to understand what is meant by the “civilization of love”, and why the family is organically linked to this civilization. If the first “way of the Church” is the family, it should also be said that the civilization of love… Read More ›

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To put nothing before the love of Christ

“To Christ belongs everything we can do; we live because he quickens us, we move and have our being because he enlivens us, we love because he first loved us. It was out of love he created and quickened us, nourished and guarded us; he led us to the bath of rebirth, renewed us, governed… Read More ›

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God Can Be Seen in Man and in Each One of Us

If I insist on giving you my truth, and never stop to receive your truth in return, then there can be no truth between us. Christ is present ‘where two or three are gathered in my name.’ But to be gathered in the name of Christ is to be gathered in the name of the… Read More ›

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Enter the Way of Mercy and Truth

The first step for the wretched person extricating himself from the depths of vice is the mercy which makes him merciful to the son of his mother, to be merciful to his soul, and thereby pleasing to God. In this way he emulates the great work of divine pity, being moved to tears with him… Read More ›

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Creating the Truth of Our Identity

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny… This means to say that we should not passively exist, but actively participate in His creative freedom, in our own lives, and in the lives of others, by choosing… Read More ›

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Souls that love truth and God

Souls that love truth and God, that long with much hope and faith to put on Christ completely, do not need so much to be put in remembrance by others, nor do they endure, even for a while, to be deprived of the heavenly desire and of passionate affection to the Lord; but being wholly… Read More ›

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The Value of Submitting to Necessity

Any prolonged exercise of self-will injures our intrigrity, whether its purpose is the direct pursuit of pleasure or, more indirectly, the avoidance of pain. To the extent that our will is concerned principally with pleasing ourselves, we can anticipate trouble. On the other hand, learning to live with situations that cannot be changed is a… Read More ›

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The Wisdom That Comes From On High

Vatican City, Sep 20, 2009 / 09:18 am (CNA).- Pope Benedict XVI turned to the . . . the Letter of James and noted that while reflecting on true wisdom may not “resolve all problems of daily life,” it aids in confronting “them more serenely and effectively.” St. James “describes true wisdom in contrast to… Read More ›

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Truth came by Jesus Christ

In Christianity truth is not a philosophical concept nor is it a theory, a teaching, or a system, but rather, it is the living theanthropic hypostasis – the historical Jesus Christ (John 14:6). Before Christ men could only conjecture about the Truth since they did not possess it. With Christ as the incarnate divine Logos… Read More ›

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