Speaking vividly as it does of "renewal" and "detachment", the interruption of the often oppressive rhythm of work expresses the dependence of man and the cosmos upon God. Everything belongs to God! The Lord's Day returns again and again to declare this principle within the weekly reckoning of time.

June 8, 2023 - “It is a wondrous event which is not only absolutely unique in human history, but which lies at the very heart of the mystery of time. In fact, ‘all time belongs to [Christ] and all the ages,’ as the evocative liturgy of the Easter Vigil ...

For he has created all things that they might exist ... God created man for incorruption, and made him in the image of his own eternity, but through the devil's envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his party experience it" (Wis 1:13-14; 2:23-24).

This is not the time to return to a ceremony and an object considered, wrongly, to be a symbol of the temporal power of the Popes. Our time calls us, urges us, obliges us to gaze on the Lord and immerse ourselves in humble and devout meditation on the mystery of the supreme power of Christ himself. He who was born of the Virgin Mary, the carpenter's Son (as he was thought to be), the Son of the living God (confessed by Peter), came to make us all "a kingdom of priests".

May 30, 2025 - Dziwisz echoed this sentiment, noting that “many things changed in the Church and in the world under the influence of John Paul II and his activities. … In Rome itself and in the Church, there was a belief that the future belonged to Marxism. And the pope said that the future belongs to human rights, to the human person, to human freedom, and not to the enslavement that Marx gave.” · “I also remember his departure wasn’t a departure to history, to the archives,” Dziwisz said. “He works and you can see it. People run to God thanks to him and receive different graces.”

3 weeks ago - John Paul argued that Marxism misjudges the human person. In his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, he said Marxist socialism’s “fundamental error” is anthropological—it turns persons into cogs, undermines freedom and responsibility, and rejects private property. Because socialism builds on Marx’s atheism, “the denial of God deprives the person of his foundation.” Socialism, he said, necessarily deprives human beings of their value.

November 26, 2013 - “In this road towards the end ... Pope said. The Holy Father stated that those who feel that are masters of time are deceived. “Time,” he exclaimed, “belongs to God!”...

To you belongs responsibility for what will one day become reality together with yourselves. In this regard, the first and principal wish of the Church is that you should “always be prepared to make a defence to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you.” · 2. ... To ...

October 5, 2020 - Then, John Paul adds this poignant, personal note: “…I feel a spontaneous desire to share fully with you my own feelings at this point of my life, after more than 20 years of ministry on the throne of Peter….Despite the limitations brought on by age, I continue to enjoy life. For this I thank the Lord. It is wonderful to be able to give oneself to the very end for the sake of the Kingdom of God! “At the same time, I find great peace in thinking of the time when the Lord will call me: from life to life!

June 28, 2023 - Therefore, never be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord” (2Tm. 1: 7-8). Thus wrote Saint Paul to Timothy, almost two thousand years ago; thus speaks the Church to American Catholics today.

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Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God. ... The future starts today, not tomorrow. Topics: Dream, Inspiration, Future, Inspirational Future, Carpe · Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves. ... Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. source: - Pope John Paul II (1999).

January 8, 2025 - Few today, however, remember the man that preceded him as Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church, in no small part because his time as pope lasted a mere 33 days, the shortest reign in over 370 years.

In particular, I express my gratitude to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Archbishop Darío Castrillón Hoyos, who — with the help of their staffs in the Congregations for the Doctrine of the Faith and for the Clergy — have organized and conducted this important meeting. It is an eloquent sign of the place the Church assigns to proclaiming the Word of God in a suitable manner to the people of our time.

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He served as pope for almost 26 and a half years and was probably the most “seen” person in the world. In Rome, his general audiences had a total attendance of 17.6 million people.

Karol Józef Wojtyla , known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in the Polish town of Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometers from Krakow, on May 18, 1920.

The longest reigning pope in modern history, John Paul II, took his message on the road, visiting 129 countries --several repeatedly -- on 104 trips and logging more than 700,000 miles in a papacy that lasted more than 27 years.

1 week ago - However, after over 26 years as pope, two assassination attempts, one of which injured him severely, and a number of cancer scares, John Paul's physical health declined. In 2001 he was diagnosed as suffering from Parkinson's disease.