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1 14(77)| Cf. e.g. Ps 104[103]; Ps 19[18]; Ws 13:1-9;
2 14(77)| Cf. e.g. Ps 104[103]; Ps 19[18]; Ws 13:1-
3 1(3) | 19, 21; Eph 4:4; Phil 3:10f.; Tit 3:7; Heb 7:19; 1 Pet
4 7(41) | New York 1958, Vol I, p. 127). Nor can one fail to mention
5 13(74)| 1985, No. 3: AAS 77 (1985), 163.~
6 2(5) | 10:17-22; Mt 19:16-22; Lk 1818-23.~
7 7(41) | Japanese Tradition, New York 1958, Vol I, p. 127). Nor can
8 16(87)| Cf. AAS 58 (1966), 18.~
9 1(2) | Redemptor Hominis, 14: AAS 71 (1979), 284 f.~
10 12(72)| Laborem Exercens, 9: AAS 73 (1981), 599f.~
11 8(56) | Redemptionis Domum: AAS 76 (1984), 513-546.~
12 2(5) | 22; Mt 19:16-22; Lk 1818-23.~
13 1(2) | Hominis, 14: AAS 71 (1979), 284 f.~
14 11(69)| Cf. Mt 25:14-30; Lk 19:12-26.~
15 15(85)| Confessions I, 1: CSEL 33, p. 1.~
16 6(32) | Cf. Mt 22:37-40; Mk 12:29-31; Lk 10:27.~
17 8(58) | Mt. 9:37f.~
18 7(40) | Cf. Mt 22:38.~
19 9(59) | the Church Lumen Gentium, 39-42.~
20 6(32) | Cf. Mt 22:37-40; Mk 12:29-31; Lk 10:27.~
21 9(59) | Church Lumen Gentium, 39-42.~
22 9(60) | World Gaudium et Spes, 43-44.~
23 2(9) | Cf. Lk 8:49-56.~
24 8(56) | Redemptionis Domum: AAS 76 (1984), 513-546.~
25 14(76)| Lk 2:52.~
26 8(56) | Domum: AAS 76 (1984), 513-546.~
27 2(9) | Cf. Lk 8:49-56.~
28 16(87)| Cf. AAS 58 (1966), 18.~
29 12(72)| Exercens, 9: AAS 73 (1981), 599f.~
30 7(46) | Cf. Lk 22:61.~
31 1(2) | Redemptor Hominis, 14: AAS 71 (1979), 284 f.~
32 12(72)| Laborem Exercens, 9: AAS 73 (1981), 599f.~
33 8(56) | Redemptionis Domum: AAS 76 (1984), 513-546.~
34 7(41) | called Saicho, who lived 767-822 A.D.) urges people to
35 13(74)| of Peace 1985, No. 3: AAS 77 (1985), 163.~
36 7(41) | called Saicho, who lived 767-822 A.D.) urges people to be "
37 7(41) | Saicho, who lived 767-822 A.D.) urges people to be "forgetful
38 15 | is that "the word of God abide in you". Then you are strong:
39 2 | a significance which is absolutely essential, and have a specific
40 14 | in contact with nature we absorb into our own human existence
41 15 | innocent people, so much abuse of men and women, so much
42 7 | conscience with absolute acceptance of Christ and his word.~
43 6 | emerges from it.~This plan accepts the prospect of eternal
44 14 | But this process has to be accompanied by "growth" in wisdom and
45 10 | life it has been my task to accompany in a sense more closely
46 4 | accept it and undertake its accomplishment! ~Such is Christ in the
47 5 | life-the plan drawn up in accordance with the criterion of meaning
48 14 | bringing with it the gradual accumulation of all that is true, good
49 6 | conflicting thoughts" which "accuse or perhaps excuse them".(35)
50 6 | corresponding deeds: it accuses or excuses. But the conscience
51 14 | through contact with the achievements of humanity, and still more
52 12 | his own needs, but he also achieves fulfillment as a human being
53 | across
54 8 | to that moment, of having acted according to God's commandments: "
55 4 | evaluations, estimations and actions?~Why is God alone good?
56 12 | only transforms nature, adapting it to his own needs, but
57 10 | becomes ever more "an annoying addition". The materialistic and
58 10 | young people to whom I am addressing this Letter, the question
59 14 | is also given to us to be admired and contemplated, like a
60 9 | and at the same time an adopted child of God in Christ:
61 12 | preparation for the work of adulthood, and so is linked to the
62 10 | This can be called a great adventure, but it is also a great
63 13 | threat from the bad use of advertising techniques, which plays
64 7(43) | Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate, 2.~
65 10 | subjective expression, its affective richness, indeed its metaphysical
66 10 | period when this great theme affects in an experimental and creative
67 7 | love. In it is contained an affirmation of man and of humanity such
68 15 | causes of the injustice that affronts our eyes? Why are so many
69 3 | which is proper to your age. You ask yourselves these
70 15 | afraid to call the first agent of evil by his name: the
71 1 | and also for people of all ages-individuals, communities and the whole
72 15 | being in the form either of agnosticism or of atheism in its various
73 13 | in the fantasy worlds of alcohol and drugs, in shortlived
74 3 | treasure of youth necessarily alienate man from Christ? The Evangelist
75 13 | on your whole life.~I am alluding for example to their temptation
76 4 | final completion; he is "the Alpha and Omega, the beginning
77 8 | the elusive and sometimes ambiguous values of the society in
78 16 | of the Most Holy Trinity. Amen.~Given in Rome, at Saint
79 10 | devoted much reflection and analysis. God created human beings:
80 10 | two, becomes ever more "an annoying addition". The materialistic
81 15 | it.?~Christ answers as he answered the young people of the
82 15 | be able to do it.?~Christ answers as he answered the young
83 14 | This truth about man-this anthropology-has its incomparable culmination
84 13 | must feel how deep is the antithesis between good and evil, between
85 4 | heart of the riches and the anxieties linked with that plan for
86 | anyone
87 | anywhere
88 15 | catastrophes on a truly apocalyptic scale.~In this situation
89 15 | together). This belief is an appeal and at the same time a commitment:
90 8 | Absolute that exists beyond the appearances of material things. They
91 9 | concept of "vocation" was applied first of all to the priesthood
92 7 | drawn near.~This is not the appropriate place for quoting the confirmations
93 12 | this state of affairs be appropriately improved. For education
94 7 | observed from my youth". How ardently I hope that the journey
95 7 | world and as the specific area of his being "with others", "
96 14 | different cultures, of so many arts and sciences, we learn the
97 5 | that people have long been asking themselves, not only in
98 12 | that it receives the most assiduous care and by centering economic
99 9 | convinced that the task assigned to them by God is left completely
100 14 | of these bodies, with the assistance of the Pastors of the Church,
101 11 | bears them within you; you assume the manifold inheritance
102 15 | either of agnosticism or of atheism in its various expressions.~
103 2 | At this point the atmosphere of the meeting changes.
104 12 | this field! I shall not attempt to list them here even by
105 10 | presented in a distorted way. Attempts are being made to impose
106 11 | leaves" deserves special attention. From its very beginning
107 14 | many of its treasures and attractions and polluting the natural
108 9 | realized, an ideal which is attractive to a young heart. In this
109 1 | responsibility, which requires us to attribute to man as a person-and to
110 9 | in God's life, living the authentic human life to the full.
111 6 | finds its foundation: his authentically human dignity. This is that
112 13 | are under threat from the bad use of advertising techniques,
113 9 | profoundly-the meaning of Baptism and Confirmation. For in
114 9 | universal sharing of all the baptized in Christ's three-fold prophetic,
115 14 | victory over obstacles and barriers. This is certainly one of
116 7(41) | compassion" (cf. W.T. De Bary, Sources of Japanese Tradition,
117 15 | contrary to all programmes based on the principle of conflict
118 6 | determine the essential bases of behavior, decide the
119 9 | presence of Christ and are basing our reflections about youth
120 15 | Yes! You young people are bearers of the yearning for brotherhood
121 8 | the programme of the eight Beatitudes which begins the Sermon
122 14 | the same time is always beckoning us towards what is hidden
123 15 | goes on, the conversation begun one day in the Gospel. That
124 6 | determine the essential bases of behavior, decide the moral value
125 | behind
126 15 | their conscience, their beliefs and their rights. If "you
127 1 | people, just as it once belonged to the generation of those
128 1 | is a special possession belonging to everyone. It is a possession
129 12 | is one of the fundamental benefits of human civilization. It
130 15 | horizon of the lives of the billions of people who make up the
131 11 | enters the family through the birth which he owes to his parents,
132 16 | Precisely on this day the Bishop of Rome prays together with
133 16 | this same intention the Bishops and priests in the different
134 13 | example to their temptation to bitter criticism, which would like
135 16 | Christ tells you". And I bless you in the name of the Most
136 7 | our humanity is as it were blotted out in the eyes of other
137 14 | people to read this wonderful book-the "book of nature", which
138 15 | religion, or even on the border-line between faith and unbelief,
139 15 | refugees at the different borders? Why so many cases in which
140 12 | your face you shall eat bread",(70) and this experience
141 10 | And so I ask you not to break off your conversation with
142 14 | Nazareth. These words are brief, even though they cover
143 9 | interior life. ~I speak briefly of all this, even though
144 14 | from the testimony of many brilliant minds-seems in different
145 9 | these cases. The Council has broadened this way of looking at things.
146 15 | that teaching which Christ brought, and which is rightly called
147 8 | non-Christian religions, especially Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam, we
148 13 | we create life itself, building the foundation of the successive
149 13 | a type of entertainment business that distracts people from
150 15 | portend the possibility of calamities and catastrophes on a truly
151 9 | vocation to which God is calling him or her.~I desire therefore
152 15 | prisons and concentration camps, so much systematic violence
153 16 | men. This is the Mary of Cana of Galilee, who intercedes
154 12 | receives the most assiduous care and by centering economic
155 13 | connected with one's work, career or even marriage. Again,
156 13 | reveal love. But whoever carefully reads these words of the
157 14 | Mary and with Joseph the carpenter. The Evangelist Luke writes: "
158 6 | it is also true that man carries with him the treasure of
159 3 | Life presents itself as the carrying-out of that plan: as "self-fulfillment" . ~
160 15 | possibility of calamities and catastrophes on a truly apocalyptic scale.~
161 8 | which simultaneously in the Catholic Church of the Latin Rite
162 15 | the world? What are the causes of the injustice that affronts
163 12 | that in various ways is causing difficulties to young people
164 10 | your life.~And so I do not cease to pray to Christ and to
165 15 | 1 January 1985, for the celebration of the World Day of Peace.
166 8 | conscious and free choice of celibacy. The Church finds the same "
167 12 | most assiduous care and by centering economic policy on making
168 2 | continually, throughout the centuries and generations. Christ
169 14 | wish to attain particularly challenging goals. Such fatigue is creative,
170 15 | irreversible? Can it be changed? Shall we succeed in changing
171 2 | atmosphere of the meeting changes. The Evangelist writes that "
172 12 | and work, a relationship characteristic of society today, there
173 7 | female or male, with all the characteristics which make up the unrepeatable
174 14 | elements of "growth" that characterize youth.~I likewise hope that
175 12 | about them.~The work which characterizes the period of youth is,
176 12 | of your young minds and characters. How great is their task!
177 16 | constitutes strength and the charm of youth, that is to say,
178 8 | the evangelical counsels (chastity, poverty and obedience),
179 15 | and sisters. ~So if you cherish a desire for brotherhood,
180 8 | to the conscious and free choice of celibacy. The Church
181 3 | same time of organizing, choosing, foreseeing and making the
182 7 | loved, loved eternally and chosen from eternity.(47) At the
183 2 | your own conversation with Christ-a conversation which is of
184 9 | of becoming imitators of Christ-not only by bearing witness
185 7(41) | would not wish done to you" (Chung Yung: Equilibrium and Norm,
186 10 | constant teaching of the Church-are precisely capable of making
187 7 | to the community of the Church-to all those spheres with which
188 16 | universal Church and of all the Churches, we have before our eyes
189 8 | it acquires a particular clarity, especially the question
190 15 | between individuals, from classes and nations-so as also to
191 9 | also be a progressively clearer realization of how this
192 3 | those questions which in the clearest way concern the plan for
193 7 | of your youth that mature clearsightedness that during your whole lives
194 11 | father and his mother and cleaves to his wife".(67)~This word "
195 16 | today and of all time-a "closing Message" in which the Church
196 7 | this point has similarly coincided with Christ's response!
197 7 | life?", and this response coincides with the whole journey of
198 14 | the methods and means for coming close to God and making
199 14 | time for new contacts, new companionships and friendships, in a circle
200 15 | technology-which cannot be compared with any preceding period
201 14 | especially in Saint Paul, who compares the whole Christian life
202 7(41) | summit of friendship and compassion" (cf. W.T. De Bary, Sources
203 3 | here Christ alone is the competent one to ask, the one whom
204 10 | dignity; and with marvelous complementarity, in the matter of the division
205 4 | their first source and final completion; he is "the Alpha and Omega,
206 15 | on? So many prisons and concentration camps, so much systematic
207 14 | growth" ~14. Allow me to conclude this part of my reflections
208 8 | the introduction to the concluding phase of the conversation.
209 3 | leads us to a different conclusion. The decision to go away
210 3 | institution or hospital, condemned to a certain passivity which
211 12 | own in dignified living conditions, and, most important of
212 8 | But at the same time he confers upon these commandments
213 15 | point of view of religious confession, in others where there are
214 15(85)| Cf. Saint Augustine, Confessions I, 1: CSEL 33, p. 1.~
215 9 | taken by the disciples and confessors of the divine Redeemer.
216 5 | Christ, when he becomes the confidant of the questionings of our
217 8 | refuge in God with love and confidence, and with all their souls
218 7 | appropriate place for quoting the confirmations of this fact which run through
219 15 | the whole of the Gospel is confirmed. These words also confirm
220 15 | notwithstanding so many declarations confirming all human rights? What must
221 6 | Letter to the Romans-is the "conflicting thoughts" which "accuse
222 15 | people, without divisions, conflicts or discrimination. Yes!
223 7(41) | The moral law", Confucius says, "is not distant from
224 10 | whole wonderful complex of conjugal and paternal and maternal
225 7(41) | truth" (satyagraha), which conquers without violence by the
226 16 | to set out again for new conquests".(87) This I do on Palm
227 6 | Saint Paul writes. This conscience-in the words of the Letter
228 8 | Latin Rite is linked to the conscious and free choice of celibacy.
229 8 | in certain Institutes of consecrated life and similar Institutes.~"
230 11 | of family awareness and consequently of national awareness: a
231 3 | these decisions are of considerable social importance. The young
232 12 | more than I could take into consideration. I shall therefore pre-suppose
233 15(82)| Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constituion on the Church Lumen Gentium,
234 8 | series of commandments which constitute the fundamental code of
235 8 | of life which we begin to construct in our youth. The dimension
236 9 | young person, boy or girl, constructs his or her plan of life
237 13 | every desire, while the consumerism that goes with it suggests
238 10 | The materialistic and consumeristic civilization is penetrating
239 14 | youth is the time for new contacts, new companionships and
240 14 | to us to be admired and contemplated, like a great mirror of
241 15 | sin of holding people in contempt and scorning their dignity,
242 14 | the various countries and continents, each one being guided by
243 5 | become the permanent "sign of contradiction"(21) before all programmes
244 15 | and whose whole essence is contrary to all programmes based
245 7 | of you must in some way contribute to the richness of these
246 8 | man. And I do this in the conviction that Christ addresses them
247 6 | how closely these words correspond to our interior reality:
248 6 | interior reaction to man's corresponding deeds: it accuses or excuses.
249 5 | the other planets and send cosmic probes in their direction.~
250 2 | that "at that saying his countenance fell, and he went away sorrowful;
251 11 | more often called "love of country". ~
252 16 | people, for the newly-married couple when at the marriage feast
253 5 | it. You too must find the courage to ask it, like the young
254 14 | brief, even though they cover the period of thirty years
255 13 | through self-education, we create life itself, building the
256 7 | perceives in it a ray from the creating Word that enlightens every
257 7 | other words, a person who is credible. The moral personality formed
258 15 | relationships, against every crime against life: against every
259 14 | you the ability to make critical judgments and above all
260 13 | their temptation to bitter criticism, which would like to challenge
261 6 | find ourselves here at a crucial moment, when at every step
262 4 | teacher and friend, Christ crucified and risen: always the same
263 15(85)| Augustine, Confessions I, 1: CSEL 33, p. 1.~
264 7 | professional activity and also to cultural and political activity,
265 10 | resolved to go against the current of popular opinion and propaganda
266 1 | also for the Church, as the custodian of fundamental truths and
267 7(41) | of ancient times (Dengyo Daishi, also called Saicho, who
268 4 | the world",(18) "and the darkness has not overcome it".(19) ~
269 2 | raisings from the dead: of the daughter of Jairus (9) and of the
270 7(41) | and compassion" (cf. W.T. De Bary, Sources of Japanese
271 15 | history of humanity. This is dealt with in the already mentioned
272 11 | destruction from outside or of decay from within the very existence
273 15 | against every falsehood and deceit, against everything that
274 13 | succumbing to the fascination of deceptive mirages, give themselves
275 6 | essential bases of behavior, decide the moral value of human
276 10 | the future of humanity is decided along the paths of this
277 3 | different conclusion. The decision to go away from Christ was
278 15 | notwithstanding so many declarations confirming all human rights?
279 15 | Vatican Council perceived and declared in its Dogmatic Constitution
280 8 | to submit to his hidden decrees. They seem impelled by a
281 3 | existential phase, as we can deduce from the questions he asks
282 13 | the Gospel must feel how deep is the antithesis between
283 14 | yourselves. Talk to him! Deepen your knowledge of the word
284 8 | commandments but it is also "deeper" and more fundamental. It
285 7 | humiliation, persecution, defeat, when our humanity is as
286 11 | passive attitude, still less a defeatist one, as did the last of
287 6 | of moral victories and defeats. Here too the essential
288 3 | by some physical lack or defect, some handicap or limitation,
289 11 | or for those that must defend from the danger of destruction
290 11 | one in a more precisely defined personal and social situation.
291 9 | s Sacraments has its own definite and specific reference to
292 14 | constitutes the evangelical definition of youth. ~
293 6 | morality must not surrender to deformation by any kind of relativism
294 10 | the plan of your life a deformed, impoverished and falsified
295 13 | values, which can easily degenerate into a sort of extreme cynicism
296 10 | demands on people. These demands-as you find them in the constant
297 7(41) | master of ancient times (Dengyo Daishi, also called Saicho,
298 7 | when he had three times denied his Master.(46)~Man needs
299 12 | which frees man does not depend on education alone, even
300 12 | societies and environments-are deprived of the opportunity of education,
301 2 | all the elements of the description and all the words uttered
302 1 | minister of the eternal destinies that man the great human
303 5 | witness to that definitive destiny which the human person has
304 14 | a utilitarian way, thus destroying many of its treasures and
305 5 | you must acquire interior detachment with regard to all this
306 9 | this theme will receive detailed treatment from others, particularly
307 6 | humanity. The commandments determine the essential bases of behavior,
308 9 | and at the same time is determined by various circumstances
309 3 | Before the inner gaze of the developing personality of the-young
310 10 | which I personally have devoted much reflection and analysis.
311 7 | the most ancient times the dictate of conscience has guided
312 15 | in others where there are differences of religion, or even on
313 15 | different elements. It is differentiated in the way that the Second
314 5 | cannot put the question differently from how that young man
315 14 | enriching in a way that differs from knowledge of the world "
316 12 | various ways is causing difficulties to young people all over
317 12 | up a family of my own in dignified living conditions, and,
318 12 | upon them with interest, diligence and enthusiasm. Work-all
319 8 | God in eternity which is directed to everyone. But there is
320 14 | from the beginning, in man, directly created "in the image" of
321 15 | life, and you yourselves discern the outlines of a communion
322 12 | that youth is the time for discerning talents. It is also the
323 9 | different paths taken by the disciples and confessors of the divine
324 13 | criterion of truth, the discipline of truth. To be truly free
325 5 | together with technology has discovered in an incomparable way man'
326 12 | shows the manifold wealth of discoveries which youth brings with
327 15 | divisions, conflicts or discrimination. Yes! You young people are
328 15 | hatred, violence, terrorism, discrimination-from the situations in which
329 12 | society.~However, when we discuss the question of education,
330 14 | each of which could be discussed at much greater length.
331 10 | this treasure and not to disfigure this beauty. Be convinced
332 10 | powerful exhortation not to distort this expression, not to
333 13 | entertainment business that distracts people from a serious commitment
334 10 | the absolute unity of his divinity is also a communion of persons:
335 10 | complementarity, in the matter of the division of the attributes, properties
336 15 | between all people, without divisions, conflicts or discrimination.
337 7(41) | to be "forgetful of self, doers of good to others: this
338 15 | must we do to avoid being dominated by the sin of universal
339 5 | they have also succeeded in dominating the interior world of his
340 5 | again; death no longer has dominion over him".(20) In his Resurrection
341 8(56) | Exhortation Redemptionis Domum: AAS 76 (1984), 513-546.~
342 | down
343 14 | upward" stage towards the "downward" stage, making up the overall
344 13 | fantasy worlds of alcohol and drugs, in shortlived sexual relationships
345 10 | human race that special "duality" together with complete
346 7 | commandment of love-the duty to do to neighbor all the
347 12 | each one of you from your earliest years. At the same time,
348 8 | individuals who often from early youth leave everything in
349 5 | value, have meaning? This earnest question comes from the
350 2 | Perhaps in this way it will be easier for you to develop your
351 12 | sweat of your face you shall eat bread",(70) and this experience
352 13 | contain as it were a distant echo of Christ's conversation
353 8 | their spirit, as it were echoing Saint Paul's words: "The
354 12 | assiduous care and by centering economic policy on making sure that
355 12 | those responsible for the economy and development of nations
356 15 | herself on the paths of ecumenism, on the paths towards the
357 16(86)| Christian Education Gravissimum Educationis, 2.~
358 8 | understand the programme of the eight Beatitudes which begins
359 | either
360 7 | this eternal love of divine election accompanies man during life
361 14 | and also constitutes the element of healthy relaxation which
362 | elsewhere
363 8 | eternal values over the elusive and sometimes ambiguous
364 1 | people are the ones who embody this youth: you are the
365 3 | the whole of life, that embraces the whole of human existence.~
366 12 | of society today, there emerge very serious problems of
367 7 | Here we see already clearly emerging that objective morality
368 13 | also speaks of this when he emphasizes that only "with perseverance"
369 13 | serious commitment in life and encourages passivity, selfishness and
370 1(2) | Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Redemptor Hominis, 14: AAS
371 11 | passes-and will do so until the end- through the family. A man
372 11 | one of you is spiritually endowed in your individual humanity.
373 10 | in the right", love that "endures all things".(66)~It is precisely
374 8 | which are greater and more enduring: "Seek the things that are
375 13 | exploit or misdirect your energetic and powerful search for
376 14 | development: the growth of all the energies through which normal human
377 13 | self-fulfillment especially in the enjoyment of material goods. How many
378 7 | from the creating Word that enlightens every man;(43) and precisely
379 15 | leads human hearts away from enmity, hatred, violence, terrorism,
380 14 | truth which can build up and enrich the humanity of each one
381 14 | obtained from books". It enriches us in a direct way. One
382 14 | to the visible world is enriching in a way that differs from
383 15 | young: "What must we do to ensure that life-the flourishing
384 12 | therefore to be guaranteed by ensuring that it receives the most
385 7 | with the young man, we now enter another phase. It is a new
386 11 | through the family. A man enters the family through the birth
387 13 | countries, of a type of entertainment business that distracts
388 12 | interest, diligence and enthusiasm. Work-all work-is linked
389 9 | as something which is entrusted by God to an individual
390 12 | in certain societies and environments-are deprived of the opportunity
391 10 | which the Letter to the Ephesians says is something great:
392 7 | human authenticity and of an equal authenticity of the development
393 10 | together with complete equality, in the matter of human
394 12 | including manual work, it is equally true that work itself is
395 7(41) | done to you" (Chung Yung: Equilibrium and Norm, 13). A Japanese
396 9 | by bearing witness to the eschatological Kingdom of truth and love,
397 6 | to eternal life, with the establishment of God's Kingdom in people
398 4 | the limits of evaluations, estimations and actions?~Why is God
399 7 | that he is loved, loved eternally and chosen from eternity.(47)
400 14 | relation to education and ethics. This whole youthful experience
401 9 | begins the path towards the Eucharist, which contains the fullness
402 9 | in relationship with the Eucharist-to reflect on the Sacrament
403 4 | removed beyond the limits of evaluations, estimations and actions?~
404 2 | young man, recorded by the Evangelists.(5) Among the many texts
405 10 | rightly consider the great event of your heart, a matter
406 6 | written not only by the events which in a certain sense
407 14 | the truth about man (so evocatively expressed also in Psalm
408 9 | interior and exterior nature. Examining these circumstances, the
409 8 | They thus become living examples to the people around them,
410 | except
411 9 | life vocation. This is an exciting task. It is a fascinating
412 6 | which "accuse or perhaps excuse them".(35) Everyone knows
413 6 | corresponding deeds: it accuses or excuses. But the conscience must
414 12(72)| Apostolic Letter Laborem Exercens, 9: AAS 73 (1981), 599f.~
415 4 | many kinds of evil that exist in the world; finally, when
416 3 | Gospel was precisely in this existential phase, as we can deduce
417 15 | But this circle gradually expands. An ever increasing number
418 9 | people from whom he can expect an answer, especially his
419 12 | really true that society is expecting my contribution? ~The seriousness
420 7 | young man in the Gospel experienced: "Jesus, looking upon him,
421 10 | great theme affects in an experimental and creative way the soul
422 12 | man in his totality. They explain what the dignity and greatness
423 5 | though he is rooted in it-is explained by the image and likeness
424 3 | question naturally deserves an explanation from many points of view;
425 8 | something more", finds its explicit point of reference. In the
426 13 | of a world that wants to exploit or misdirect your energetic
427 15 | against every injustice and exploitation, against every falsehood
428 14 | civilization, has become the explorer of nature on a grand scale,
429 15 | of atheism in its various expressions.~It seems nevertheless that
430 6 | values, imprints the most expressive seal upon the life of the
431 4 | loses its transparency, its expressiveness. Evil is put forward as
432 9 | circumstances of an interior and exterior nature. Examining these
433 3 | definitively influenced only by external riches, what the young man
434 11 | to have before my mind's eye the complex and separate
435 1(2) | 14: AAS 71 (1979), 284 f.~
436 15 | seems nevertheless that when faced by certain questions these
437 15 | the fundamental question facing your generation.~This is
438 7(41) | I, p. 127). Nor can one fail to mention Mahatma Gandhi,
439 10 | Christ and to the Mother of Fair Love for the love that is
440 7 | Peter too in the hour of his fall: when he had three times
441 15 | exploitation, against every falsehood and deceit, against everything
442 10 | deformed, impoverished and falsified content: love "rejoices
443 15 | flourishing life of the human family-will not be turned into the graveyard
444 11 | the same time-through the family-you are also taught by the tribe,
445 14 | is summed up thus in the famous passage of the Pastoral
446 13 | from responsibility: in the fantasy worlds of alcohol and drugs,
447 13 | people, succumbing to the fascination of deceptive mirages, give
448 9 | my life? Your creative, fatherly plan? What is your will?
449 7 | make up the unrepeatable features of this personality, and
450 2 | that saying his countenance fell, and he went away sorrowful;
451 10 | with the masculinity and femininity of the human being.~Thus,
452 16 | responsibilities-in all the fields open to you in our world!
453 11 | one of you. The prominent figures of a nation's history, ancient
454 5 | existence is completely filled by the world and temporal
455 9 | life" with which it will be filled-in the light of the words addressed
456 4 | but at the same time it is firm and it is true; it bears
457 10 | Christ; that you should not flee from him, when you are occupied
458 7 | follower of that Word made flesh he rises to the higher law
459 13 | you may be tempted to take flight from responsibility: in
460 5 | to launch interplanetary flights, transmit signals to the
461 15 | to ensure that life-the flourishing life of the human family-will
462 15 | generations of Christians that followed them. In this experience
463 7 | precisely because he is a follower of that Word made flesh
464 5 | man in the Gospel in the following form: "What must I do to
465 3 | individual families! How many are forced from childhood to live in
466 15 | also with a sense of inner foreboding: Is this state of affairs
467 3 | of organizing, choosing, foreseeing and making the first personal
468 7(41) | A.D.) urges people to be "forgetful of self, doers of good to
469 9 | irreplaceable importance for the formation of the Christian personality,
470 8 | of a young person who is forming the plan for his or her
471 6 | distorted; the fundamental formulation of the principles of morality
472 14 | acquire insight... Do not forsake her and she will keep you;
473 11 | also guide your youth and foster the development of that
474 11 | inheritance. Thus also the fourth commandment of the Decalogue
475 15 | making it more human, more fraternal-and at the same time more of
476 7 | Through charity, man and human fraternity come to fuller maturity.
477 13 | yourselves on guard against the fraud of a world that wants to
478 15 | feel in a certain sense "freed" from sin but at the same
479 12 | spirit. The knowledge which frees man does not depend on education
480 10 | who is the fruit and the fresh incarnation of the love
481 4 | Christ, the teacher and friend, Christ crucified and risen:
482 7(41) | represents the summit of friendship and compassion" (cf. W.T.
483 14 | new companionships and friendships, in a circle wider than
484 4 | himself, and cannot even fulfil himself without God. Jesus
485 12 | needs, but he also achieves fulfillment as a human being and indeed,
486 9 | Eucharist, which contains the fullness of the sacramental gifts
487 16 | This is the Mary of Cana of Galilee, who intercedes for the
488 7(41) | fail to mention Mahatma Gandhi, who taught the "power of
489 3 | with it. Before the inner gaze of the developing personality
490 12 | of unemployment, and more generally of the lack of jobs that
491 7 | turn back to the Book of Genesis, to that instant when, after
492 15 | there is a strong desire for genuine brotherhood between all
493 13 | in reality are lacking in genuinely human prospects! I feel
494 15 | thus you will succeed in getting at the hidden workings of
495 9 | fullness of the sacramental gifts granted to the Christian:
496 14 | our capacity for "self- giving": for becoming men and women "
497 8 | above".(50) They seek the goal with all their strength,
498 14 | particularly challenging goals. Such fatigue is creative,
499 8 | according to the heart of God-and the Church and the world
500 4 | him-without the reference to God-the whole world of created values
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