Chapter
1 Intro | implore from Him the gift of joy. ~ ~On our own part indeed,
2 Intro | accompanied in us by the joy of the Holy Spirit. Likewise
3 Intro | to share this abounding joy which is a gift of the Holy
4 Intro | is precisely: Christian joy -- joy in the Holy Spirit.
5 Intro | precisely: Christian joy -- joy in the Holy Spirit. It is
6 Intro | sort of hymn to the divine joy that we would like to utter,
7 Intro | of all in the Church: may joy be poured out in hearts
8 1 | Christian joy could not be properly praised
9 1 | of His creature to meet joy, at the same time as truth.
10 1 | most noble expression is joy, or "happiness" in the strict
11 1 | Thus, man experiences joy when he finds himself in
12 1 | more does he know spiritual joy or happiness when his spirit
13 1 | experience something of the joy of God. ~ ~But how can we
14 1 | the additional fact that joy is always imperfect, fragile
15 1 | difficulty in attaining joy, seem to us particularly
16 1 | difficulty in generating joy. For joy comes from another
17 1 | difficulty in generating joy. For joy comes from another source.
18 1 | hinder us from speaking about joy and hoping for joy. It is
19 1 | about joy and hoping for joy. It is indeed in the midst
20 1 | fellow men need to know joy, to hear its song. We sympathize
21 1 | communion, and gives access to joy, for the one who gives as
22 1 | be unbecoming to speak of joy. ~ ~There is also needed
23 1 | in our path: the elating joy of existence and of life;
24 1 | existence and of life; the joy of chaste and sanctified
25 1 | sanctified love; the peaceful joy of nature and silence; the
26 1 | silence; the sometimes austere joy of work well done; the joy
27 1 | joy of work well done; the joy and satisfaction of duty
28 1 | performed; the transparent joy of purity, service and sharing;
29 1 | and sharing; the demanding joy of sacrifice. The Christian
30 1 | disdain them. Christian joy presupposes a person capable
31 1 | person capable of natural joy. These natural joys were
32 1 | truly enter into spiritual joy. Without doubt "flesh and
33 1 | the sources of Christian joy. And how could we do this,
34 2 | In essence, Christian joy is the spiritual sharing
35 2 | sharing in the unfathomable joy, both divine and human,
36 2 | fullness of time,[12] this joy is mysteriously announced
37 2 | prophetic first fruits of this joy.[13] This joy becomes transfigured
38 2 | fruits of this joy.[13] This joy becomes transfigured through
39 2 | and was glad."[14] ~ ~The joy of salvation then increases
40 2 | them from their God. This joy, ever threatened and springing
41 2 | the Covenant. Such is the joy of the Mosaic Passover,
42 2 | question also of the real joy repeatedly hymned by the
43 2 | hymned by the Psalms -- the joy of living with God and for
44 2 | glorious and supernatural joy, prophesied for the new
45 2 | you majestic for ever, a joy from age to age.... For
46 3 | expressions of our hymn of joy. And yet, according to faith
47 3 | one is excluded from the joy brought by the Lord. The
48 3 | brought by the Lord. The great joy announced by the angel on
49 3 | Israel, had himself leapt for joy, in His presence, in the
50 3 | He willingly extols the joy of the sower and the harvester,
51 3 | sower and the harvester, the joy of the man who finds a hidden
52 3 | finds a hidden treasure, the joy of the shepherd who recovers
53 3 | finds her lost coin, the joy of those invited to the
54 3 | invited to the feast, the joy of a marriage celebration,
55 3 | marriage celebration, the joy of the father who embraces
56 3 | a prodigal life, and the joy of the woman who has just
57 3 | the kingdom of God: the joy of people who enter this
58 3 | there or work there, the joy of the Father who welcomes
59 3 | giving. He even exults with joy when He states that the
60 3 | and to those in sorrow, joy."[22] The Gospel of Saint
61 3 | witness to this seed of joy. The miracles of Jesus and
62 3 | secret of the unfathomable joy which dwells in Jesus and
63 3 | are called to share this joy. Jesus wishes them to have
64 3 | to have in themselves His joy in its fullness.[33] "I
65 3 | be in them."[34] ~ ~This joy of living in God's love
66 3 | begins here below. It is the joy of the kingdom of God. But
67 3 | Jesus promises above all joy -- this demanding joy; and
68 3 | all joy -- this demanding joy; and does it not begin with
69 3 | confirmed in an ineradicable joy when they saw the Lord on
70 3 | remains that, here below, the joy of the kingdom brought to
71 3 | greater, you have made their joy increase...."[38] The Easter
72 3 | transformed, while the fullness of joy springs from the victory
73 3 | deliciis meis.[39] ~ ~Paschal joy is not just that of a possible
74 3 | transfiguration: it is the joy of the new presence of the
75 3 | inexhaustible principle of her joy as the bride of the glorified
76 3 | Then we can experience joy which is properly spiritual,
77 3 | properly spiritual, the joy which is a fruit of the
78 3 | that comes from Him. Such a joy henceforth characterizes
79 3 | transfigured. Here below this joy will always include to a
80 3 | changed into a spiritual joy that no one will be able
81 3 | in his inmost being, in joy, because he is in communion
82 4 | centuries, this source of joy has not ceased to spring
83 4 | the mystery of Christian joy. ~ ~In the first rank is
84 4 | Eternal Son, manifests her joy before her cousin Elizabeth
85 4 | unlimited degree to the joy of the resurrection; and
86 4 | joys; she lives the perfect joy promised to the Church:
87 4 | her as the cause of their joy: Causa nostrae laetitiae. ~ ~
88 4 | purest and most burning joy -- where the cross of Jesus
89 4 | and of coming to the holy joy of the resurrection. The
90 4 | has left us a message of joy. The Fathers of the East
91 4 | in testimonies about this joy in the Holy Spirit. Origen,
92 4 | example, often describes the joy of the one who has intimate
93 4 | soul is then inundated with joy, like that of the old Simeon.
94 4 | procures the maximum of joy[52] In the West, it is sufficient
95 4 | the way to holiness and joy: St. Augustine, St. Bernard,
96 4 | glory. He could even express joy at the arrival of "our sister
97 4 | is the moment of perfect joy for the poor, weak little
98 4 | interior peace, serenity and joy somehow transformed the
99 4 | daughters, this sharing in the joy of the Lord cannot be dissociated
100 4 | fruits of eschatological joy. ~ ~Situated in this perspective,
101 4 | perspective, the vast and profound joy infused already here below
102 4 | is a happy manifestation. Joy is the result of a human-divine
103 4 | preoccupation with self. Joy gives the heart a catholic
104 4 | bliss. Among the fervent, joy deepens their awareness
105 5 | bright horizon of Christian joy, it is in no way with the
106 5 | contrary; we feel that our joy, like yours, will only be
107 5 | perfection; for the sake of the joy which was still in the future,
108 5 | Father to share fully in the joy of Abraham, in the everlasting
109 5 | apt subjects for Gospel joy. Whoever wishes to enter
110 5 | evening of their lives. God's joy is knocking at the door
111 5 | they are on the road to joy. ~ ~But the People of God
112 5 | take the paths of Gospel joy, in the midst of the realities
113 5 | Jerusalem shall be my theme of joy, my honor and my boast before
114 5 | advancement in true freedom and in joy. It is the response to an
115 5 | source of holiness, peace and joy. ~ ~
116 6 | youth, and therefore the joy of their own youth? ~ ~We
117 6 | Exhortation on Christian Joy, our mind and heart urge
118 6 | arises, on both sides, a joy of high quality and a fruitful
119 6 | reaper will share the same joy of the kingdom.[65] ~ ~It
120 6 | celebration of spiritual joy. We cordially urge you to
121 6 | profound and liberating is the joy of divine Truth finally
122 6 | Veritate.[67] This is the joy which is offered to you.
123 7 | perfection of beauty," "joy to the whole world."[72]
124 7 | brothers."[75] ~ ~A common joy, truly supernatural, a gift
125 7 | canticle, the hymn of divine joy. And this is the reason
126 Conclu| return to the sources of joy. ~ ~Beloved brethren and
127 Conclu| daughters, is it not normal that joy should dwell in us, when
128 Conclu| fundamental and simple reasons for joy? God has so loved the world
129 Conclu| those who are saved. The joy of being Christian, of being
130 Conclu| the Memorial of Pascal: "Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy"?
131 Conclu| Memorial of Pascal: "Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy"? And
132 Conclu| Memorial of Pascal: "Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy"? And near
133 Conclu| Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy"? And near to us, how many
134 Conclu| Bernanos -- this evangelical joy of the humble which shines
135 Conclu| speaks of God's silence! ~ ~Joy always springs from a certain
136 Conclu| to so many Christians the joy of living day by day their
137 Conclu| margins of society. For joy cannot be dissociated from
138 Conclu| In God Himself, all is joy because all is giving. ~ ~
139 Conclu| the Sunday celebration, in joy, of the Eucharist. How could
140 Conclu| and source of Christian joy, the preparation for the
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