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1002 3 | who live in a land of deep shadow a light has shone. You have
1003 5 | cross, disregarding the shamefulness of it, and from now on has
1004 4 | of the resurrection. The shedding of blood is not the only
1005 3 | Christian condition which sheds particular light on that
1006 3 | shepherd who recovers his sheep or of the woman who finds
1007 3 | treasure, the joy of the shepherd who recovers his sheep or
1008 Conclu | joy of the humble which shines forth everywhere in the
1009 3 | deep shadow a light has shone. You have made their gladness
1010 6 | viewpoint of age, youth is a short-lived thing. The excessive attention
1011 5 | and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me,
1012 4 | Cabasilas, endeavors to show how the love of God for
1013 3 | nor knows -- only sees one side of things. It considers
1014 Conclu | God and His people: the sign and source of Christian
1015 4 | joy, like that of the old Simeon. In the temple which is
1016 3 | can only spring from the simultaneous celebration of the death
1017 3 | the possessed delivered, a sinful woman or a publican like
1018 3 | The Easter Exultet sings of a mystery accomplished
1019 5 | heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety-nine virtuous
1020 4 | joy at the arrival of "our sister bodily death": "Blessed
1021 5 | limited our exhortation to a small number of wise and learned
1022 6 | correspondence between the soaring impulse of a being which
1023 5 | family, professional and social responsibility. The burden
1024 1 | oriented towards Him as its sole and supreme good, remains
1025 3(40) | Sequence of the Solemnity of Pentecost. ~
1026 1 | peoples deprived of them. Such solidarity is already the work of God;
1027 7 | the Holy Spirit, is the soliditas Petri, such as our predecessor
1028 1 | to be no adequate human solution to them. ~ ~This situation
1029 | somehow
1030 | someone
1031 1 | to know joy, to hear its song. We sympathize profoundly
1032 4 | pledge (of the Spirit of sonship), we exclaim 'Abba, Father!'
1033 2 | Jesus Christ glorified. As soon as God the Father begins
1034 3 | salvation...and to those in sorrow, joy."[22] The Gospel of
1035 4 | she stands, the mother of sorrows, at the foot of the cross,
1036 Conclu | on God. "When your eye is sound, your whole body too is
1037 7 | endless sharing with the Sovereign Priest. The firmness that
1038 4 | Not that she is in any way spared sufferings: she stands,
1039 1 | nevertheless cannot hinder us from speaking about joy and hoping for
1040 Conclu | everywhere in the world and which speaks of God's silence! ~ ~Joy
1041 6 | to be "glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or anything like
1042 1 | Constitution "Gaudium et spes" and numerous pontifical
1043 5 | live beyond the visible sphere of the People of God. By
1044 4 | many others, a master of spirituality in the East, Nicholas Cabasilas,
1045 3 | understand them because they are spiritually discerned."[46] The world --
1046 6 | Christ? Has not He, in the splendid words of Saint Irenaeus, "
1047 4 | the spiritual masters have spoken of in excellent ways. And
1048 5 | for confidence and for spontaneous giving. They are apt subjects
1049 6 | mission, how could she fail spontaneously and preferably to recognize
1050 7 | although this faith "is spread throughout the world the
1051 3 | is given by God and which spreads out like an overflowing
1052 2 | joy, ever threatened and springing up again, is proper to the
1053 6 | and the next historical stage of the People of God. ~ ~
1054 3 | necessarily exercised under the standard of the paschal sacrifice,
1055 4 | way spared sufferings: she stands, the mother of sorrows,
1056 1 | often used by Christ as a starting point when He proclaimed
1057 1 | weighs heavily: so many starving people, so many victims
1058 Conclu | in Christ,'' and in the state of grace with God, is truly
1059 3 | exults with joy when He states that the little ones have
1060 3 | But it is granted on a steep road which requires a total
1061 5 | is in no way a backward step, as sin is. It is rather
1062 4 | seeing heaven open, Saint Stephen is but the first of the
1063 3 | the Lord. The Holy Spirit stirs up in the Church divine
1064 5 | throne. Think of the way he stood such opposition from sinners
1065 4 | the Lamb. It is peacefully stretched between the moment of earthly
1066 1 | joy, or "happiness" in the strict sense, when man, on the
1067 3 | receive its message and strive to live by it. The Blessed
1068 5 | Jesus tells us, must first study children.[57] ~ ~We include
1069 7(73) | anniversario assumptionis suae ad Pontificatum, 4: PL 54,
1070 7(69) | 845ff., Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam, AAS 56 (1964), 612, 614-
1071 3 | why the Christian, though subject to the difficulties of human
1072 5 | spontaneous giving. They are apt subjects for Gospel joy. Whoever
1073 1 | to purify, complete and sublimate these joys; he will not
1074 6 | her own youthfulness, her substantial fidelity to herself and,
1075 1 | Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities
1076 6 | therefore renew herself down succeeding human generations. For her
1077 6 | for something else. Having suddenly been deprived of protective
1078 4 | joy[52] In the West, it is sufficient to cite the names of some
1079 1 | individuals, are no longer sufficiently ensured. God seems to him
1080 1 | prepare a world, one more suitable for living in, to bring
1081 1 | sometimes in our midst, the sum of physical and moral sufferings
1082 1(7) | Cf: Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I-II, q 31,
1083 Conclu | and resurrection, Christ summarizes the history of each man
1084 3 | which is the center and summit of history: the coming on
1085 5 | because all those who are summoned -- all of us in fact --
1086 5 | immense love of God which is summoning towards the heavenly City
1087 4 | jewels."[48] With Christ, she sums up in herself all joys;
1088 4 | praise of our brother the sun, of all nature, which had
1089 Conclu | Christians to be faithful to the Sunday celebration, in joy, of
1090 3 | thanksgiving, reparation and supplication. Then we can experience
1091 6 | at the same time, being supported by faith and hope which
1092 Conclu | the peace and hope which surpass setbacks and sufferings.
1093 1 | joy, to hear its song. We sympathize profoundly with those over
1094 Conclu | therefore reject the excesses of systematic and destructive criticism!
1095 Conclu | the joys of daily life, so tactful and persuasive for putting
1096 6 | people against this illusion takes on a certain importance.
1097 6 | life and hope and of the task of ensuring that there will
1098 4 | of some of those who have taught the way to holiness and
1099 7 | accord she preaches it, teaches it and transmits it, as
1100 3 | of the apostles, the very teaching of the Lord. The Holy Spirit
1101 1 | reason for our message. Technological society has succeeded in
1102 5 | kingdom of heaven, Jesus tells us, must first study children.[57] ~ ~
1103 4 | of the old Simeon. In the temple which is the Church he embraces
1104 4 | it guards them from the temptation to desert the place of their
1105 6 | as some today are gravely tempted to do -- the inheritance
1106 6 | love it enough to seek it tenaciously. By disposing yourselves
1107 4 | John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Francis de
1108 7 | extolled in unforgettable terms: "Saint Peter does not cease
1109 3 | and in the midst of most terrible trials, these promises wonderfully
1110 4 | Fathers of the East abound in testimonies about this joy in the Holy
1111 5 | These are the pastors, the theologians, the spiritual directors,
1112 1(7) | Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I-II, q 31, a. 3. ~
1113 4 | In more recent times, St. Therese of Lisieux shows us the
1114 1 | good.[8] Poets, artists, thinkers, but also ordinary men and
1115 1 | loneliness, of an unsatisfied thirst for love and for someone'
1116 7 | pressures of the crowd nor the threats of kings; and the same is
1117 5 | place at the right of God's throne. Think of the way he stood
1118 4 | between the moment of earthly toil and the peace of the eternal
1119 3 | exactly what the Father told me."[29] He always does
1120 4 | the very midst of their torment, the Holy Spirit inspires
1121 1 | combats, so many people torn from their homes! These
1122 3 | out like an overflowing torrent when the time of "consolation"[16]
1123 1 | sure of himself or of his transcendent calling and destiny. He
1124 6 | correspondence which is transitory and threatened, yes, but
1125 6 | the Church, which is to transmit without end the gift of
1126 3 | painful trial of a woman in travail and a certain apparent abandonment,
1127 4 | being thus sustained like travelers, on the road to eternity,
1128 3 | the man who finds a hidden treasure, the joy of the shepherd
1129 3 | secret of the life of the Trinity: the Father is seen here
1130 3 | in the possession of the Triune God, known by faith and
1131 Conclu | love's forbearance, to its trust, its hope, its power to
1132 2 | external persecutions which try to detach them from their
1133 6 | civilization which is still trying to present itself as the
1134 4(49) | Apostolici, ed. F. S. Funk, 1, Tubingen, 1901, p. 261; cf. Jn. 4:
1135 Conclu | Peter's, on May 9, 1975, the twelfth year of our Pontificate. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1136 4 | sources of God's Word. For twenty centuries, this source of
1137 6 | rediscover the sure and unalterable newness of the divine mystery
1138 7 | home, and she believes it unanimously, as if it had but a single
1139 1 | without which it would be unbecoming to speak of joy. ~ ~There
1140 3 | the Father."[26] It is an unceasing and total exchange: "All
1141 4 | And the Lord's field is unceasingly clothed with a richer harvest,
1142 1 | future perhaps seem too uncertain, human life too threatened?
1143 6 | with full consciousness and unconditionally, the covenant entered into
1144 | under
1145 2 | Israel. It persists and is unfailingly reborn in the course of
1146 3 | world -- that world which is unfitted to receive the Spirit of
1147 4 | eternal life, both for his unfortunate companions and for himself. ~ ~
1148 3 | prophets before you."[45] ~ ~Unfortunately, in our century which is
1149 1 | depression and sadness unhappily remain the lot of many.
1150 2 | ultimate meaning of this unheard-of outpouring of redemptive
1151 7 | confide to Peter -- who unifies in himself the College of
1152 7 | permanently here below, in unison with the Jerusalem above,
1153 1 | People must obviously unite their efforts to secure
1154 Conclu | being Christian, of being united with the Church, of being "
1155 4 | death in order to save an unknown brother, and the witnesses
1156 4 | But she is also open in an unlimited degree to the joy of the
1157 1 | matter of loneliness, of an unsatisfied thirst for love and for
1158 2 | before its identity has been unveiled. ~ ~Thus Abraham, our father,
1159 2 | always a question of an uplifting experience of liberation
1160 | used
1161 1 | seems to him abstract and useless. Without his being able
1162 4 | of suffering -- which was usually like an image of hell --
1163 Intro | joy that we would like to utter, so that it may awaken an
1164 6 | the vanity and spiritual vacuum of false novelties, atheistic
1165 6 | bitterly deceived by the vanity and spiritual vacuum of
1166 Conclu | the agitated members of various groups therefore reject
1167 7 | faith, hope and love. By varying the means and the times
1168 Intro | Faithful of the entire world ~ ~Venerable brothers and dear sons and
1169 6 | in the Church: gaudium de Veritate.[67] This is the joy which
1170 6 | history of today? And vice versa, how can those who in every
1171 6 | the history of today? And vice versa, how can those who
1172 1 | starving people, so many victims of fruitless combats, so
1173 1 | of bringing light. In our view, these remedies fall into
1174 7 | Thus there is, in full vigor and life, in the Prince
1175 3 | characterizes all the Christian virtues. The humble human joys in
1176 5 | sinner than over ninety-nine virtuous men who have no need of
1177 5 | those who live beyond the visible sphere of the People of
1178 6 | correspondence exists, not always visibly, but certainly deep down,
1179 7 | we journey, not in clear vision, and what we shall be has
1180 4(52) | Cf. N. Cabasilas, De vita in Christo, Vll: PC 150,
1181 1 | he has at times cut the vital link that joined him to
1182 4 | charisms and particular vocations, it illustrates the mystery
1183 5 | this harmony of the many voices of the saints, have we forgotten
1184 4 | age, he offered himself voluntarily to death in order to save
1185 6 | importance. This generation is waiting for something else. Having
1186 3 | foretold: "The people that walked in darkness has seen a great
1187 5 | you will not give up for want of courage."[55] ~ ~The
1188 4 | There is only in me a living water that murmurs and says: '
1189 7 | invincible faith, which has not wavered in the combat or grown lukewarm
1190 4 | perfect joy for the poor, weak little thing.... What happiness
1191 3 | satisfied. Happy you who weep now: you shall laugh."[35] ~ ~
1192 Conclu | and of all men, with their weight of sufferings and sins,
1193 7 | Son and the Holy Spirit welcome one into their own intimacy
1194 3 | the joy of the Father who welcomes them. And for His part Jesus
1195 5 | they have a capacity for welcoming, for wonderment, for confidence
1196 1 | least a minimum of relief, well-being, security and justice, necessary
1197 7 | Mother sang on earth as they went up to Jerusalem the canticles
1198 | Whenever
1199 | Whereas
1200 | wherever
1201 | whether
1202 6 | in the fields which are white and ready for the harvest.
1203 | Whoever
1204 3 | death at the hands of the wicked[36] and death on the cross,
1205 3 | like Zacchaeus converted, a widow taking from her poverty
1206 Intro | and of all those who are willing to lend their hearts and
1207 3 | the dawn of history. He willingly extols the joy of the sower
1208 3 | tenderness when He meets children wishing to approach Him, a rich
1209 3 | in His presence, in the womb of his mother.[18] When
1210 1 | but also ordinary men and women, simply disposed to a certain
1211 3 | terrible trials, these promises wonderfully sustained the mystical hope
1212 1 | s heart, from the age of wondering childhood to serene old
1213 5 | capacity for welcoming, for wonderment, for confidence and for
1214 6 | which endures. Then new workers, resolute and fervent, will
1215 1 | but they have taken on a worldwide dimension. They are better
1216 4 | at the same time that it wounds the heart with a longing
1217 6 | glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or anything like that, but
1218 4 | fullness of life that I write to you, desiring to die.
1219 Conclu | And near to us, how many writers there are who know how to
1220 Conclu | does not rejoice in what is wrong but rejoices with the truth.
1221 6(67) | Augustine, Confessions, Book X, 23: CSEL, 33, p. 252. ~
1222 7(73) | Saint Leo the Great, Sermo XCVI, De natali ipsius sermo
1223 4(51) | Origen, In Lucam XV Hom.: PC 13, 1838-1839. ~
1224 6 | the effort of the soul's yearnings. And we wish to give you
1225 6 | which, for a few decisive years, has youth at his command,
1226 5 | give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I
1227 | Yourself
1228 | yourselves
1229 3 | woman or a publican like Zacchaeus converted, a widow taking
1230 3 | life, being animated by a zealous love of the Lord and His
1231 7 | Jerusalem the canticles of Zion: "perfection of beauty," "
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