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List Ojca Świętego Jana Pawła II do Episkopatu Kościoła Katolickiego na 1800 rocznicę I Soboru Konstantynopolitańskiego i na 1550 rocznicę Soboru Efeskiego.
We have already heard many times from St. Paul that “joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit” (Gal 5:22), as are love and peace, which we have discussed in earlier catecheses. It is clear that the Apostle is speaking of the true joy which fills the human heart, and certainly not of a superficial, transitory joy, which worldly joy frequently is. It is not difficult for an observer who operates solely on...
In his address to the poor inhabitants of the Favela Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, delivered during the apostolic travel to Brazil in 1980, the Holy Father John Paul II addressed the issue of poverty, which, he stressed, is not the will of God. The Pope explicated the sense of the seven beatitudes, in particular of the for−mulation “Blessed are the poor in spirit” (Mt 5: 3), and referred that formulation to...
The eighth commandment, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor,” stresses that being truthful is a duty to be observed by human beings in their relations with others, as well as throughout their presence in social life. The commandment in question in particular reflects the fact that man was created in the image and likeness of God, who is truth. Thus human actions must be in accord...
In Christianity time has a fundamental importance. Within the dimension of time the world was created; within it the history of salvation unfolds, finding its culmination in the “fullness of time” of the Incarnation, and its goal in the glorious return of the Son of God at the end of time. In Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, time becomes a dimension of God, who is himself eternal. With the coming...
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