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Chapter
1 6(66) | haereses, IV, 34, 1: PC 7, 1083. ~
2 7(74) | Irenaeus, Adversus haereses, 111, 3, 2: PG 7, 848-849.
3 4(54) | haereses, V, 8, 1: PC 7, 1142. ~
4 7(75) | Ps. 133:1. ~
5 Intro(1)| Cf. Phil. 4:4-5; Ps. 145:18. ~
6 4(52) | vita in Christo, Vll: PC 150, 703-715. ~
7 7(73) | Pontificatum, 4: PL 54, 155-156. ~
8 7(73) | Pontificatum, 4: PL 54, 155-156. ~
9 4(53) | Letter 175. Manuscrits autobiographiques,
10 4(51) | In Lucam XV Hom.: PC 13, 1838-1839. ~
11 4(51) | Lucam XV Hom.: PC 13, 1838-1839. ~
12 4(49) | F. S. Funk, 1, Tubingen, 1901, p. 261; cf. Jn. 4:10; 7:
13 4(53) | autobiographiques, Lisieux. 1956, p. 52. ~
14 7(70) | Session, part 3, December 8, 1962: AAS 55 (1963), pp. 38ff. ~
15 7(69) | Ecclesiam Suam, AAS 56 (1964), 612, 614-618. ~
16 1(6) | Gn. 1:10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31. ~
17 6(67) | Book X, 23: CSEL, 33, p. 252. ~
18 4(49) | Funk, 1, Tubingen, 1901, p. 261; cf. Jn. 4:10; 7:38; 14:
19 6(65) | Cf. Jn. 4:35-36. ~
20 4(49) | p. 261; cf. Jn. 4:10; 7:38; 14:12. ~
21 7(70) | 1962: AAS 55 (1963), pp. 38ff. ~
22 5(56) | Acts 2:39. ~
23 3(16) | Cf. Is. 40:1; 66:13. ~
24 4(50) | Petri et Pauli, Vl; PL 54, 426; cf. Jn. 12:24. ~
25 3(18) | Cf. Lk. 1:44. ~
26 7(72) | Ps. 50:2; 48:3. ~
27 4(53) | autobiographiques, Lisieux. 1956, p. 52. ~
28 7(76) | haereses, I, 10, 2: PG 7, 551. ~
29 2(15) | Is. 60:15; 62:3; Gal. 4:27; Rv.
30 4(48) | Is. 61:10. ~
31 7(69) | Ecclesiam Suam, AAS 56 (1964), 612, 614-618. ~
32 7(69) | Suam, AAS 56 (1964), 612, 614-618. ~
33 7(69) | AAS 56 (1964), 612, 614-618. ~
34 2(15) | Is. 60:15; 62:3; Gal. 4:27; Rv. 21:1-4. ~
35 3(16) | Cf. Is. 40:1; 66:13. ~
36 Intro(2)| Paterna cum benevolentia, AAS 67 (1975), pp. 5-23. ~
37 4(52) | in Christo, Vll: PC 150, 703-715. ~
38 4(52) | Christo, Vll: PC 150, 703-715. ~
39 7(69) | 1963: AAS 55 (1963), pp. 845ff., Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam,
40 7(74) | haereses, 111, 3, 2: PG 7, 848-849.
41 7(74) | haereses, 111, 3, 2: PG 7, 848-849.
42 1(8) | Aquinas, ibid., 11-11, q. 28, aa. 1, 4. ~
43 4 | Creator. In the most extreme abnegation, half blind, he was able
44 4 | of the Spirit, the pure abode of the Redeemer of mankind,
45 4 | The Fathers of the East abound in testimonies about this
46 Intro | invite you to share this abounding joy which is a gift of the
47 4 | of the feeling of God's absence, a feeling which our century
48 5 | when the Church opens more abundantly to all the riches of God'
49 3 | Happy are you when people abuse you and persecute you and
50 Conclu | that gives all overwhelming accent to the Memorial of Pascal: "
51 4 | Mother of the Savior. She, accepting the announcement from on
52 3 | mysterious way, Christ Himself accepts death at the hands of the
53 1 | strength, communion, and gives access to joy, for the one who
54 6 | deep down, despite many accidental contradictions. This is
55 Intro | but it is sustained and accompanied in us by the joy of the
56 3 | Exultet sings of a mystery accomplished beyond the hopes of the
57 2 | set apart for the future accomplishment of the Promise, and who
58 7 | single heart; and in perfect accord she preaches it, teaches
59 3 | calumny against you on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for
60 1 | its turn, obliges one to acknowledge and to plumb the immense
61 4 | kingdom. It makes them hasten actively towards the heavenly consummation
62 7 | has ever ceased to be an actuality during the whole history
63 1 | seem to us particularly acute today. This is the reason
64 1 | world, does not man feel, in addition to the natural desire to
65 1 | But how can we ignore the additional fact that joy is always
66 1 | Often there seems to be no adequate human solution to them. ~ ~
67 3 | attitude or His sensitivity. He admires the birds of heaven, the
68 Intro | Likewise we are truly able to adopt as our own and address to
69 4 | a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels."[48]
70 5 | rather a setting out, an advancement in true freedom and in joy.
71 1 | present in our prayers and our affection. We do not wish to overwhelm
72 3 | accepted and experienced affective and spiritual joys, as a
73 Conclu | communities: let them not be afraid to insist time and time
74 | After
75 4 | Himself."[51] In the Middle Ages, among many others, a master
76 Conclu | human heart! ~ ~Let the agitated members of various groups
77 Conclu | during His earthly life so alert to the joys of daily life,
78 2 | only son is restored to him alive, a prefiguring of the resurrection
79 Conclu | Good News, which evokes the alleluia of the Church, did not give
80 Conclu | culmination here below of the alliance of love between God and
81 3 | But the Father has not allowed death to keep Him in its
82 | along
83 | although
84 7 | perseveringly -- even though it be amid the incomprehension of many --
85 1 | feelings sometimes go as far as anguish and despair, which apparent
86 3 | dwelling place: dulcis hospes animae.[40] Together with Him,
87 5 | collaborate with them in the animation of Christian communities.
88 Conclu | appeal to all the leaders and animators of the Christian communities:
89 1 | who see their human hopes annihilated. More than ever they are
90 7(73) | natali ipsius sermo V in anniversario assumptionis suae ad Pontificatum,
91 4 | image of hell -- into the antechamber of eternal life, both for
92 4 | with the martyr Ignatius of Antioch: "It is in the fullness
93 6 | whole College of Bishops, "anxiety for all the churches"[63]
94 3 | the people of Israel then anxiously awaiting a Savior, and for
95 5 | which they offended me and apostatized from me, all these I will
96 3 | Church divine life and the apostolate. And the Christian knows
97 4(49) | Romanos, Vll, 2: Patres Apostolici, ed. F. S. Funk, 1, Tubingen,
98 4(50) | Sermo LXXXII, In Natali apostolorum Petri et Pauli, Vl; PL 54,
99 5 | condition of human society, apparently so little oriented towards
100 7 | too; and wherever there appears a certain firmness, there
101 3 | He has manifestly known, appreciated, and celebrated a whole
102 3 | meets children wishing to approach Him, a rich young man who
103 5 | spontaneous giving. They are apt subjects for Gospel joy.
104 6 | youthfulness, there necessarily arises, on both sides, a joy of
105 4 | he embraces Jesus in his arms. He enjoys the plenitude
106 4 | even express joy at the arrival of "our sister bodily death": "
107 1 | present good fortune an(l artificial paradises cannot assuage.
108 1 | immutable good.[8] Poets, artists, thinkers, but also ordinary
109 Conclu | inspirations of the Holy Spirit to ask Christians thus to return
110 5 | overestimated the spiritual aspirations of the Christians of the
111 4 | human-divine communion, and aspires to a communion ever more
112 4 | of all, the poor man of Assisi, in whose footsteps numbers
113 3 | model of the flock"[44] and associate himself freely with the
114 4 | at the foot of the cross, associated in an eminent way with the
115 1 | artificial paradises cannot assuage. Do people perhaps feel
116 7(73) | sermo V in anniversario assumptionis suae ad Pontificatum, 4:
117 7 | fundamentally desired?[69] Assuredly we have here a work of the
118 6 | vacuum of false novelties, atheistic ideologies and certain deleterious
119 Conclu | contemplation and action. May you attain this good quality which
120 1 | and this difficulty in attaining joy, seem to us particularly
121 Conclu | power to endure."[79] ~ ~The attainment of such an outlook is not
122 4 | East as in the West. They attest to the same path for the
123 4 | figures that are still very attractive today for the Christian
124 1 | and silence; the sometimes austere joy of work well done; the
125 4(53) | Letter 175. Manuscrits autobiographiques, Lisieux. 1956, p. 52. ~
126 5 | makes himself attentive and available, can perceive this invitation
127 4 | the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Francis de Sales and
128 3 | of Israel then anxiously awaiting a Savior, and for the numberless
129 Intro | to utter, so that it may awaken an echo in the whole world,
130 1 | divine mystery. ~ ~When he awakens to the world, does not man
131 6 | immediate future, are well aware of this. But at the same
132 Conclu | persuasive for putting sinners back on the road to a new youth
133 5 | demanded of us is in no way a backward step, as sin is. It is rather
134 3 | When He is baptized on the banks of the Jordan, this love,
135 Conclu | neglect this encounter, this banquet which Christ prepares for
136 6 | them in the sacrament of Baptism and reinforced in the sacrament
137 3 | Emmanuel, God with us. John the Baptist, whose mission is to point
138 6 | feel themselves to be the bearers of life and hope and of
139 3 | does it not begin with the beatitudes? ~ ~"How happy are you who
140 7 | of Zion: "perfection of beauty," "joy to the whole world."[72]
141 | begin
142 Conclu | world that He gave His only begotten Son; through His Spirit,
143 2 | beloved people, on whose behalf He accomplishes, by pure
144 Intro | when throughout the world believers are preparing to celebrate
145 7 | in a single home, and she believes it unanimously, as if it
146 7 | here is a service for the benefit of the entire Church and
147 7 | through the free and merciful benevolence of the Father and the Son
148 Intro(2)| Exhortation, Paterna cum benevolentia, AAS 67 (1975), pp. 5-23. ~
149 Conclu | for example, of Georges Bernanos -- this evangelical joy
150 4 | joy: St. Augustine, St. Bernard, St. Dominic, St. Ignatius
151 5 | Following the line of the best spiritual tradition, we
152 6 | many young people, partly betrays a senile and definitely
153 4 | it seems that the little bird (to which she compared herself)
154 3 | sensitivity. He admires the birds of heaven, the lilies of
155 6 | protective traditions, then bitterly deceived by the vanity and
156 Conclu | to it! And on our part we bless you with all our heart. ~ ~
157 Intro | health and the Apostolic Blessing. ~ ~Rejoice in the Lord
158 4 | extreme abnegation, half blind, he was able to chant the
159 4 | with a longing for eternal bliss. Among the fervent, joy
160 4 | tragic trials which have bloodied our age, he offered himself
161 3 | His interior life did not blunt His concrete attitude or
162 5 | of joy, my honor and my boast before all the nations of
163 4 | the arrival of "our sister bodily death": "Blessed are those
164 1 | often not lacking; and yet boredom, depression and sadness
165 4 | Francis de Sales and St. John Bosco. ~ ~We would like to evoke
166 3 | always known as God in the bosom of the Father: "...you loved
167 1 | Him that even death cannot break. Who does not recall the
168 4 | Father, in the life-giving breath of the Spirit. ~ ~Each of
169 5 | If we have evoked this bright horizon of Christian joy,
170 5 | leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection; for the
171 4 | expression of the purest and most burning joy -- where the cross of
172 3 | who believe in Christ are called to share this joy. Jesus
173 1 | himself or of his transcendent calling and destiny. He has desacralized
174 3 | you and speak all kinds of calumny against you on my account.
175 4 | blessedness, when the world came forth intact from the hands
176 7 | went up to Jerusalem the canticles of Zion: "perfection of
177 Conclu | sufferings and sins, with their capacities for progress and holiness.
178 5 | which they need, they have a capacity for welcoming, for wonderment,
179 1 | despair, which apparent carefreeness, the frenzies of present
180 7 | Catholic Church guards it carefully, as if it dwelt in a single
181 1 | sufferings of every sort cast a veil of sadness. We are
182 6 | in the proper way. What catches our attention is essentially
183 1 | remedies fall into three categories. ~ ~People must obviously
184 4 | the cause of their joy: Causa nostrae laetitiae. ~ ~After
185 4 | grace, invoke her as the cause of their joy: Causa nostrae
186 6 | Spirit, from whom the Church ceaselessly receives her own youthfulness,
187 3 | without reserve and without ceasing, in a burst of joyful generosity,
188 Intro | believers are preparing to celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit,
189 3 | known, appreciated, and celebrated a whole range of human joys,
190 4 | her cousin Elizabeth who celebrates her faith: "My soul magnifies
191 3 | inexpressible event which is the center and summit of history: the
192 Conclu | Christian communities become centers of optimism, where all the
193 6 | not always visibly, but certainly deep down, despite many
194 7 | confinement of prison, nor chains, nor the pressures of the
195 6 | regard our age of profound change is not without grave difficulties
196 3 | world, will be promptly changed into a spiritual joy that
197 Conclu | always passes through the channels of knowledge and love, of
198 4 | half blind, he was able to chant the unforgettable Canticle
199 3 | Him. Such a joy henceforth characterizes all the Christian virtues.
200 7 | incomprehension of many -- to the charge received from the Lord,
201 5 | responsibility. The burden of their charges, in a fast-moving world,
202 4 | according to the diversity of charisms and particular vocations,
203 1 | and of life; the joy of chaste and sanctified love; the
204 Conclu | paths of prayer, in the cheerfulness of filial praise, towards
205 1 | from the age of wondering childhood to serene old age, as a
206 7 | by the fact that Wisdom chose to confide to Peter -- who
207 2 | culpable infidelities of the chosen people and to the external
208 3 | announced by the angel on Christmas night is truly for all the
209 4(52) | N. Cabasilas, De vita in Christo, Vll: PC 150, 703-715. ~
210 6 | Bishops, "anxiety for all the churches"[63] and preoccupation for
211 4 | West, it is sufficient to cite the names of some of those
212 6 | hedonistic and materialistic civilization which is still trying to
213 5 | Jeremiah announced it: "I will cleanse them of every sin they have
214 7 | that we journey, not in clear vision, and what we shall
215 1 | remains without knowing Him clearly, without loving Him, and
216 Intro | To the Episcopate, to the Clergy, and to all the Faithful
217 7(70) | John XXIII, Address for the closing of the First Session, part
218 4 | anything else exists except the clouds that envelop it.... This
219 7 | mankind drawn towards world coexistence and powerless to achieve
220 3 | woman who finds her lost coin, the joy of those invited
221 1 | weighs heavily on him. Yes, cold and darkness are first in
222 5 | the priests and those who collaborate with them in the animation
223 1 | many victims of fruitless combats, so many people torn from
224 7 | our lot to be in our turn comforted by the very thought of you
225 6 | years, has youth at his command, and the Church in her permanent
226 1 | corresponds to Christ's commandment. Already it secures peace,
227 6 | out-of-date aspect of a commercial, hedonistic and materialistic
228 5 | them of every sin they have committed against me; the sins by
229 7 | like brothers."[75] ~ ~A common joy, truly supernatural,
230 6 | yourselves to accept it and to communicate it, you will ensure together
231 3 | mutual love, is henceforth communicated to the People of the New
232 Intro | the Apostle Paul in his community at Corinth: "...you are
233 4 | both for his unfortunate companions and for himself. ~ ~In the
234 4 | little bird (to which she compared herself) cannot believe
235 5 | different points of the compass, whether they be near or
236 4 | immaculate from the moment of her conception, the incomparable dwelling-place
237 6 | this is not true in what concerns the spiritual meaning of
238 1 | development of all! The conciliar Constitution "Gaudium et
239 3 | interior life did not blunt His concrete attitude or His sensitivity.
240 5 | and their pastors that the confessing of grave sins is necessary
241 5 | necessary and that frequent confession remains a privileged source
242 7 | fact that Wisdom chose to confide to Peter -- who unifies
243 7 | been daunted neither by the confinement of prison, nor chains, nor
244 6 | reinforced in the sacrament of Confirmation. ~ ~In this regard our age
245 3 | is why the disciples were confirmed in an ineradicable joy when
246 7 | leading the flock and of confirming our brethren.[77] But in
247 4 | Blessed are those who will be conformed to your most holy will...." ~ ~
248 4 | the eternal dwelling, in conformity with the Spirit's force
249 7 | as in a mirror and in a confused way, by holding fast to
250 6 | which is marked by a great confusion among many young people,
251 5 | innermost appeal of their conscience, which is the echo of God'
252 7 | Rome and in every Church conscious of the duty of being in
253 3 | sees one side of things. It considers only the affliction and
254 3 | the Holy Spirit.[42] It consists in the human spirit's finding
255 1 | development of all! The conciliar Constitution "Gaudium et spes" and numerous
256 4 | for those whose heart is consumed by the Holy Spirit many
257 4 | actively towards the heavenly consummation of the nuptials of the Lamb.
258 7 | lasting city we have not yet contemplated the splendor, except as
259 4 | come from the fact that she contemplates in them the glorious fruitfulness
260 Conclu | of knowledge and love, of contemplation and action. May you attain
261 5 | simple splendor and complete content was first announced to the
262 2 | Jesus Christ in the paschal context of the new and eternal Covenant.
263 3 | name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that
264 3 | Christian blessedness, in continuity with the destiny of the
265 5 | make us understand that the conversion demanded of us is in no
266 3 | publican like Zacchaeus converted, a widow taking from her
267 5 | the Lamb, is a universal convocation. Everyone, provided he makes
268 6 | celebration of spiritual joy. We cordially urge you to be attentive
269 Intro | Paul in his community at Corinth: "...you are in our hearts,
270 Intro | exhorted the People of God to correspond with joyful enthusiasm to
271 7 | in fact obtained at the cost of setting out and of a
272 4 | our day still and in many countries, who, risking everything
273 5 | not give up for want of courage."[55] ~ ~The invitation
274 4 | of Lisieux shows us the courageous way of abandonment into
275 4 | manifests her joy before her cousin Elizabeth who celebrates
276 4 | garment of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
277 1 | when the human spirit, created in the image and likeness
278 7 | Let Him then come, the Creating Spirit, to renew the face
279 6 | faithfulness, her living creativity. It is a correspondence
280 6 | fact that the present world crisis, which is marked by a great
281 Conclu | systematic and destructive criticism! Without departing from
282 7 | nor the pressures of the crowd nor the threats of kings;
283 4 | same path for the soul: per crucem ad lucem, and from this
284 5 | who can say to us, in this crucial moment of mankind's life: "
285 4 | His saints, and no form of cruelty can destroy a religion founded
286 1 | sufferings and miseries crush him all the more to the
287 5 | fact, what burden is more crushing than that of sin? What distress
288 Conclu | resurrection. This is the culmination here below of the alliance
289 2 | tragic trials due to the culpable infidelities of the chosen
290 6 | giving way to a sentimental cult of youth. Considered only
291 Intro(2)| Apostolic Exhortation, Paterna cum benevolentia, AAS 67 (1975),
292 1 | humanity; he has at times cut the vital link that joined
293 4 | the same time the beloved Daughter of God and, in Christ, the
294 7 | and of men which has been daunted neither by the confinement
295 3 | towards creation at the dawn of history. He willingly
296 4 | has raised them from the dead and given them eternal life?
297 6 | this assurance: however debilitating the prejudice diffused everywhere
298 6 | traditions, then bitterly deceived by the vanity and spiritual
299 7(70) | the First Session, part 3, December 8, 1962: AAS 55 (1963),
300 7 | element remains the inner decision to respond to the call of
301 6 | heart urge us to turn very decisively to the young people of today.
302 4 | righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and
303 4 | everything for Christ, could declare with the martyr Ignatius
304 6 | is why we are pleased to dedicate more expressly to you, the
305 7 | presence always presupposes a deepening of true knowledge of oneself,
306 4 | Among the fervent, joy deepens their awareness of being
307 1 | miseries are perhaps not deeper than those of the past;
308 5 | include also all those who are deeply involved in family, professional
309 5 | many others, find their definite meaning in the redeeming
310 6 | partly betrays a senile and definitely out-of-date aspect of a
311 4 | also open in an unlimited degree to the joy of the resurrection;
312 1 | knows, there are several degrees of this "happiness." Its
313 1 | to bring about without delay justice and charity for
314 6 | atheistic ideologies and certain deleterious forms of mysticism, will
315 3 | Et nox illuminatio mea in deliciis meis.[39] ~ ~Paschal joy
316 7 | Rome,[74] "how good, how delightful it is for all to live together
317 3 | accepted, the possessed delivered, a sinful woman or a publican
318 5 | understand that the conversion demanded of us is in no way a backward
319 6 | receptive to the appeals and demands of his high destiny as a
320 Conclu | destructive criticism! Without departing from a realistic viewpoint,
321 4 | course of her life in any way departs from the ordinary, but she
322 1 | lacking; and yet boredom, depression and sadness unhappily remain
323 3 | the reach of everyone. The depth of His interior life did
324 1 | calling and destiny. He has desacralized the universe and now he
325 1 | the universe and now he is desacralizing humanity; he has at times
326 4 | Origen, for example, often describes the joy of the one who has
327 4 | them from the temptation to desert the place of their combat
328 4 | life that I write to you, desiring to die. My earthly desire
329 1 | go as far as anguish and despair, which apparent carefreeness,
330 7 | meaning from this ultimate destination. ~ ~And so it was with the
331 4 | and no form of cruelty can destroy a religion founded on the
332 Conclu | excesses of systematic and destructive criticism! Without departing
333 2 | persecutions which try to detach them from their God. This
334 6 | Without detracting from the fervor of our message
335 1 | charity for the integral development of all! The conciliar Constitution "
336 5 | this Holy Year from the different points of the compass, whether
337 6 | debilitating the prejudice diffused everywhere today, of the
338 Conclu | be at the same time very dignified and festive! It is the crucified
339 4 | Christ. The Church is not diminished but increased by persecutions.
340 1 | not the theme that we are directly touching upon here, effort
341 5 | theologians, the spiritual directors, the priests and those who
342 6 | and hope which does not disappoint us,[64] we are sure that
343 3 | because they are spiritually discerned."[46] The world -- that
344 5 | no way with the idea of discouraging any of you, dear brothers
345 1 | he will not be able to disdain them. Christian joy presupposes
346 Conclu | and joyous service of the disinherited and of those on the margins
347 3 | presence of the Risen Christ dispensing to His own the Holy Spirit,
348 3 | power to judge, the power to dispose of life. It is a mutual
349 1 | ordinary men and women, simply disposed to a certain inner light
350 1 | mode of revelation, God disposes the mind and heart of His
351 6 | seek it tenaciously. By disposing yourselves to accept it
352 5 | future, he endured the cross, disregarding the shamefulness of it,
353 5 | daughters, who feel your heart divided when God's call reaches
354 1 | and numerous pontifical documents have indeed insisted on
355 1 | perhaps feel helpless to dominate industrial progress, to
356 4 | Augustine, St. Bernard, St. Dominic, St. Ignatius Loyola, St.
357 5 | s joy is knocking at the door of their physical and moral
358 Conclu | Son and the Holy Spirit draw you to it! And on our part
359 3 | Father: it is His food and drink.[30] His availability goes
360 2 | course of tragic trials due to the culpable infidelities
361 3 | makes us His dwelling place: dulcis hospes animae.[40] Together
362 4 | conception, the incomparable dwelling-place of the Spirit, the pure
363 4 | Nevertheless, there are many dwellings in the Father's house, and
364 7 | guards it carefully, as if it dwelt in a single home, and she
365 6 | destiny as a person, and the dynamism of the Holy Spirit, from
366 7 | we have wished to make it easier for everyone. The essential
367 7(69) | pp. 845ff., Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam, AAS 56 (1964), 612,
368 4 | We must now recall some echoes of this spiritual experience;
369 4(49) | Vll, 2: Patres Apostolici, ed. F. S. Funk, 1, Tubingen,
370 7 | remains here, not through the effect of man's will but through
371 1 | must obviously unite their efforts to secure at least a minimum
372 | either
373 1 | places in our path: the elating joy of existence and of
374 7 | everyone. The essential element remains the inner decision
375 3 | nor sufferings have been eliminated from this world, but they
376 4 | her joy before her cousin Elizabeth who celebrates her faith: "
377 4 | where the cross of Jesus is embraced with the most faithful love --
378 4 | cross, associated in an eminent way with the sacrifice of
379 3 | the coming on earth of Emmanuel, God with us. John the Baptist,
380 1 | presence, of an ill-defined emptiness? On the contrary, in many
381 4 | universal. In no way can it encourage the person who enjoys it
382 7(69) | AAS 55 (1963), pp. 845ff., Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam, AAS 56 (
383 Conclu | all the members resolutely endeavor to perceive the positive
384 4 | of Holy Year pilgrims are endeavoring to follow. Having left everything
385 4 | East, Nicholas Cabasilas, endeavors to show how the love of
386 7 | his See, and preserves an endless sharing with the Sovereign
387 Conclu | its hope, its power to endure."[79] ~ ~The attainment
388 5 | still in the future, he endured the cross, disregarding
389 6 | fidelity the Truth which endures. Then new workers, resolute
390 6 | your hearts, your fresh energies, to the heights, to accept
391 Conclu | presence does not cease to enfold us with His tenderness and
392 5 | often prevents them from enjoying daily joys. Nevertheless
393 Conclu | things, the fruit of an enlightened human spirit and the fruit
394 3 | glorified body. This victory enlightens the darkness of souls: Et
395 6 | communicate it, you will ensure together your own fulfillment
396 1 | are no longer sufficiently ensured. God seems to him abstract
397 6 | hope and of the task of ensuring that there will be a tomorrow
398 6 | unconditionally, the covenant entered into by them in the sacrament
399 Intro | to correspond with joyful enthusiasm to the grace of the Jubilee.
400 4 | hands of God to whom she entrusts her littleness. And yet
401 4 | exists except the clouds that envelop it.... This is the moment
402 4 | For if simple pledges, enveloping man on all sides, already
403 7 | predecessor John XXIII, who envisaged a kind of new Pentecost
404 Intro | To the Episcopate, to the Clergy, and to all
405 4(49) | Saint Ignatius, Epistula ad Romanos, Vll, 2: Patres
406 3 | on the cross, in order to eradicate from man's heart the sins
407 1 | that the meaning of life escapes him, that he is no longer
408 2 | In essence, Christian joy is the spiritual
409 7 | easier for everyone. The essential element remains the inner
410 4 | travelers, on the road to eternity, they already receive sacramentally
411 Conclu | celebration, in joy, of the Eucharist. How could they neglect
412 Conclu | Georges Bernanos -- this evangelical joy of the humble which
413 5 | prodigal son, described by the evangelist Saint Luke? On the other
414 3 | before the inexpressible event which is the center and
415 5 | the joy of Abraham, in the everlasting feast of the nuptials of
416 4 | Bosco. ~ ~We would like to evoke more especially three figures
417 5 | the humble. ~ ~If we have evoked this bright horizon of Christian
418 Conclu | if this Good News, which evokes the alleluia of the Church,
419 3 | the Father.... I am doing exactly what the Father told me."[29]
420 4 | masters have spoken of in excellent ways. And here their interior
421 6 | a short-lived thing. The excessive attention that is given
422 3 | is an unceasing and total exchange: "All I have is yours and
423 4 | Apostles Peter and Paul, exclaims: "Precious in the eyes of
424 3 | of Christ. ~ ~No one is excluded from the joy brought by
425 7 | ministry which it is our lot to exercise here is a service for the
426 3 | Pentecost will never be exhausted. ~ ~Thus the Spirit, who
427 Intro | of this Holy Year we have exhorted the People of God to correspond
428 Intro | Yes, it is for us, too, an exigence of love to invite you to
429 2 | Jerusalem redeemed from the exile and loved with a mystical
430 4 | their awareness of being exiles, but it guards them from
431 5 | Nevertheless such joys do exist. The Holy Spirit wants to
432 2 | of the new Pasch and new Exodus. At that time the People
433 6 | Christ? How could they not expect from the Church the revelation
434 3 | Israel for some of the purest expressions of our hymn of joy. And
435 6 | pleased to dedicate more expressly to you, the young Christians
436 2 | chosen people and to the external persecutions which try to
437 7 | predecessor Saint Leo the Great extolled in unforgettable terms: "
438 4 | predecessor Saint Leo the Great, extolling from this Roman See the
439 3 | of history. He willingly extols the joy of the sower and
440 4 | the Creator. In the most extreme abnegation, half blind,
441 4 | the Lord, my soul shall exult in my God; for he has clothed
442 3 | Magnificat was already the exultant hymn of all the humble.
443 3 | increase...."[38] The Easter Exultet sings of a mystery accomplished
444 3 | poverty and giving. He even exults with joy when He states
445 Conclu | man and on God. "When your eye is sound, your whole body
446 4(49) | Patres Apostolici, ed. F. S. Funk, 1, Tubingen, 1901,
447 1 | the level of his higher faculties, finds his peace and satisfaction
448 6 | which, despite her human failings, He wishes to be "glorious,
449 6 | and, at the heart of this faithfulness, her living creativity.
450 1 | our view, these remedies fall into three categories. ~ ~
451 5 | who are deeply involved in family, professional and social
452 7 | confused way, by holding fast to the prophetic word. But
453 5 | burden of their charges, in a fast-moving world, too often prevents
454 4 | us a message of joy. The Fathers of the East abound in testimonies
455 6 | like that, but holy and faultless."[62] ~ ~In doing so we
456 3 | my Son, the Beloved; my favor rests on you."[24] This
457 1 | remain the lot of many. These feelings sometimes go as far as anguish
458 4 | harvest, when the grains which fell alone are multiplied in
459 1 | their distress that our fellow men need to know joy, to
460 6 | Without detracting from the fervor of our message to the whole
461 Conclu | time very dignified and festive! It is the crucified and
462 | few
463 6 | and apostolic work in the fields which are white and ready
464 2 | to the Father, from the figurative Jerusalem of here below
465 4 | fail to recall the luminous figure and example for our generation
466 4 | evoke more especially three figures that are still very attractive
467 3 | intimate knowledge which fills Him: "...the Father knows
468 7 | gave with their blood their final witness. The vocation of
469 3 | consists in the human spirit's finding repose and a deep satisfaction
470 1 | happiness. The experience of finiteness, felt by each generation
471 4 | crucified, and there is no more fire in me to love matter. There
472 Intro | year of grace, and very fittingly on the occasion of Pentecost,
473 5 | and from which they cannot flee. ~ ~Yes, it is the immense
474 1 | spiritual joy. Without doubt "flesh and blood"[11] are incapable
475 4 | members, like an immense flood, will burst forth in a hymn
476 4 | pilgrims are endeavoring to follow. Having left everything
477 Conclu | who today leads very many followers of Christ along the paths
478 5 | sacrament of Reconciliation. Following the line of the best spiritual
479 3 | Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able
480 3 | to His Father: it is His food and drink.[30] His availability
481 4 | mother of sorrows, at the foot of the cross, associated
482 4 | man of Assisi, in whose footsteps numbers of Holy Year pilgrims
483 Conclu | There is no limit to love's forbearance, to its trust, its hope,
484 4 | conformity with the Spirit's force of attraction: "If then,
485 4 | below the saints give us a foretaste of this likeness. ~ ~
486 3 | Henceforth, Jesus is living forever in the glory of the Father,
487 5 | from me, all these I will forgive. And Jerusalem shall be
488 5 | voices of the saints, have we forgotten the present condition of
489 2 | Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing
490 5 | People of God cannot go forward without guides. These are
491 3 | you loved me before the foundation of the world."[32] Here
492 4 | cruelty can destroy a religion founded on the mystery of the cross
493 1 | joy is always imperfect, fragile and threatened? By a strange
494 7 | man's will but through the free and merciful benevolence
495 5 | an advancement in true freedom and in joy. It is the response
496 3 | and associate himself freely with the Redeemer's passion.
497 1 | apparent carefreeness, the frenzies of present good fortune
498 5 | sins is necessary and that frequent confession remains a privileged
499 6 | eyes, your hearts, your fresh energies, to the heights,
500 3 | faithful and wants to do more, friends who open their home to Him,
501 1 | means, without help, without friendship -- those who see their human
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