Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another. Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful, and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
St. John Paul II, from Love and Responsibility
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“Dear friends, if you learn to discover Jesus in the Eucharist, you will also know how to discover Him in your brothers and sisters, particularly the very poor.”
— Pope St. John Paul II
“To educate without a value system based on truth is to abandon young people to moral confusion, personal insecurity, and easy manipulation.”
— Pope St. John Paul II
“To educate without a value system based on truth is to abandon young people to moral confusion, personal insecurity, and easy manipulation.”
— Pope St. John Paul II
“To educate without a value system based on truth is to abandon young people to moral confusion, personal insecurity, and easy manipulation.”
— Pope St. John Paul II
“… we are facing an enormous and dramatic clash between good and evil, death and life, the “culture of death” and the “culture of life”. We find ourselves not only faced with but necessarily in the midst of this conflict: we are all involved and we all share in it, with the inescapable responsibility of choosing to be unconditionally pro-life.“ – Pope St. John Paul II
“What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.”
— St. John Paul II
Happy Feast Day
Pope Saint John Paul ll1920 – 2005
Feast day October 22
Saint John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, was the head of the Catholic Church from October 16 1978 to his death in 2005. He was the second longest-serving pope in history and the first non-Italian since Pope Adrian Vl, who died in 1523.
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