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1 Int 4 | admirers of the Servant of God, particularly those who
2 Int 4 | Scalabrini's life as Servant of God, priest and bishop of the
3 Int 4 | Man of God and for God~ ~ ~
4 Int 4 | Man of God and for God~ ~ ~
5 Int 4 | is a man who was all for God because he belonged wholly
6 Int 4 | because he belonged wholly to God; a man who worked and sacrificed
7 Int 5 | devoted himself to the Word of God because he let himself be
8 1 7 | PART ONE~ ~ ~MAN OF GOD AND FOR GOD~ ~ ~ ~A man
9 1 7 | ONE~ ~ ~MAN OF GOD AND FOR GOD~ ~ ~ ~A man all God's and
10 1 8 | FOR GOD~ ~ ~ ~A man all God's and all for God": this
11 1 8 | man all God's and all for God": this is how Bishop Scalabrini
12 1 8 | theological," consecrated to God and the cause of God. The
13 1 8 | to God and the cause of God. The thoughts and texts
14 1 8 | Faith is the gift by which God gives himself completely
15 1 8 | our minds and hearts to God in prayer and receiving
16 1, 1 9 | the Truth and the Life. God is love: he embraces Christ
17 1, 1 9 | his Son. Christ is the God who becomes "ours" in order
18 1, 1, a, 9 | a) GOD IN US: RECAPITULATING ALL
19 1, 1, a, 9 | CHRIST~ ~ ~"He is the Word of God, the Alpha and the Omega,
20 1, 1, a, 10 | and ultimate end of all God's designs for redeemed humanity,
21 1, 1, a, 10 | humanity.2~ ~ ~"The Word of God became flesh and pitched
22 1, 1, a, 10 | In a word, the Word of God became flesh and made his
23 1, 1, a, 10 | the divinity, we have a God who does not want to be
24 1, 1, a, 10 | earth with a glance; he is God (Jn 1:1). But he is almost
25 1, 1, a, 10 | a single act of love"~ ~God loves his Son and loves
26 1, 1, a, 10 | him because the love of God is infinite and can have
27 1, 1, a, 10 | became man. So, in his Son God loves man. With a ./.
28 1, 1, a, 11 | single act of complacent love God, in Jesus, embraces everything:
29 1, 1, a, 11 | become sons and daughters of God, indeed the very Son of
30 1, 1, a, 11 | indeed the very Son of God who prolongs himself in
31 1, 1, a, 11 | by which Christ is Son of God spreads and extends to us
32 1, 1, a, 11 | heaven and earth, between God and man (Eph 2:14). Jesus
33 1, 1, a, 11 | Priest, the Mediator between God and man, the victim for
34 1, 1, a, 11 | the sons and daughters of God. To Jesus we owe all the
35 1, 1, a, 11 | glory that we receive from God. To Jesus we owe it if
36 1, 1, a, 11 | To Jesus we owe it if God preserves us, sustains us,
37 1, 1, a, 12 | earth. He alone can love God as much as God deserves
38 1, 1, a, 12 | can love God as much as God deserves to be loved. He
39 1, 1, a, 12 | loved. He alone can give God the honor due to him.~ ~
40 1, 1, a, 13 | Christ and Christ belongs to God: "All things belong to you,
41 1, 1, a, 13 | to Christ, and Christ to God."~ ~These are magnificent
42 1, 1, a, 14 | Christian: The Kingdom of God is in your midst (Lk 17:
43 1, 1, a, 15 | poor, humble, crucified God"~ ~ ~Yes, even in our exterior
44 1, 1, a, 15 | poor, humble, crucified God. Without this, what is
45 1, 1, a, 15 | things with our gaze on God, out of love for Jesus Christ,
46 1, 1, a, 16 | beheld the tragic scene of a God who dies, who dies crucified
47 1, 1, a, 16 | his enemies, he who is our God, our Creator whom we have
48 1, 1, a, 16 | for a just person. But God, he says, proves his love
49 1, 1, b, 17 | b) GOD WITH US: CHRIST IN THE EUCHARIST~ ~ ~"
50 1, 1, b, 17 | Eucharist is the masterpiece of God's mind and heart, the center
51 1, 1, b, 19 | immaculate victim to offer to God in expiation for our sins.
52 1, 1, b, 19 | first offering the Son of God gave himself up for all,
53 1, 1, b, 19 | debts we have incurred with God because of our sins are
54 1, 1, b, 20 | her altar: "This is how God loved his people." These
55 1, 1, b, 20 | since the moment the Word of God immolated himself under
56 1, 1, b, 20 | acts uniting mankind with God took place. The Mass is
57 1, 1, b, 20 | Mass is the immolation of a God who, in some way, has been
58 1, 1, b, 20 | The Mass! The Mass is a God who adores, a God who gives
59 1, 1, b, 20 | Mass is a God who adores, a God who gives thanks, a ./.
60 1, 1, b, 21 | who gives thanks, a ./. God who appeases, a God who
61 1, 1, b, 21 | God who appeases, a God who implores. The Mass!
62 1, 1, b, 21 | the wondrous ascents unto God.~ ~In the Eucharist, then,
63 1, 1, b, 21 | religion, the compendium of all God's works and, as it were,
64 1, 1, b, 22 | devotion to the Mother of God.~ ~I do not say this to
65 1, 1, b, 22 | are desired by our good God.~ ~The contemplation of
66 1, 1, b, 22 | divine perfections seen in God, descends to the contemplation
67 1, 1, b, 22 | to the contemplation of God himself. This is true also
68 1, 1, b, 22 | faithful. Some want to reach God by using the cult of the
69 1, 1, b, 22 | saints and the Mother of God like steps. Instead, others --
70 1, 1, b, 22 | devotion to the Mother of God and the saints. Christ,
71 1, 1, b, 22 | origin and goal of union with God raised to the highest power
72 1, 1, b, 23 | Incarnation, the Word of God united himself personally
73 1, 1, b, 23 | themselves. The Word of God now lives in them and sets
74 1, 1, b, 23 | splendor of his life hidden in God, enters into the eternal
75 1, 1, b, 24 | at once begin to focus on God and their lips will instinctively
76 1, 1, b, 25 | nonetheless sons and daughters of God and heirs of heaven and,
77 1, 1, b, 27 | Here, where confidence in God soars, nothing is hopeless.
78 1, 1, b, 27 | all sons and daughters of God. He who comes here to draw
79 1, 1, b, 27 | before the spectacle of a God who in the Blessed Sacrament
80 1, 1, b, 27 | priesthood, which the Son of God himself did not arrogate
81 1, 1, b, 28 | Sacrifice is the very Son of God, who is, at once, the principal
82 1, 1, b, 28 | through your ministry, and the God to whom the offering is
83 1, 1, b, 30 | Jesus, for the glory of God and the good of souls.
84 1, 1, b, 30 | close to the judgment of God (...).~ ~A priest, who is
85 1, 1, b, 31 | the altar to the unknown god.~ ~But we have another very
86 1, 1, b, 31 | the man or woman who fears God, Christ -- in this sacrament --
87 1, 1, b, 32 | earth will be converted to God and all people will adore
88 1, 1, c, 33 | c) GOD FOR US: CHRIST CRUCIFIED~ ~ ~"
89 1, 1, c, 33 | and ultimate reason of all God's plans for redeemed humanity,
90 1, 1, c, 35 | stand firm in the law of God.47~ ~ ~"The exercise of
91 1, 1, c, 35 | s will, by always doing God's; one's unruly appetites,
92 1, 1, c, 36 | sacrifice is unworthy of God, while Christ's sacrifice
93 1, 1, c, 37 | corrupt will, but only to put God's holy will in its place;
94 1, 1, c, 37 | is wanted or permitted by God, infinite love, and that
95 1, 1, c, 37 | meditate on the ways of God, to love, to give thanks
96 1, 1, c, 37 | his wisdom, Your Eminence, God has truly disposed everything
97 1, 1, c, 37 | himself intimately with God. Our main weapon is patience
98 1, 1, c, 38 | Catholic apostolate. Thank God, ever since this sign of
99 1, 1, c, 38 | announcing the glory of God, the word enlightening minds,
100 1, 1, c, 38 | eternal life, the power of God. Fear not! The Cross accompanies
101 1, 1, c, 38 | soars in the knowledge of God. Yes, the Cross will be
102 1, 2 40 | a new creation, by which God gives himself to us and
103 1, 2 40 | the good. To the gift of God, human beings respond with
104 1, 2 40 | that consecrates them to God, makes them "holy." The
105 1, 2 40 | nourished by prayer, which is "God infused into our hearts."
106 1, 2 40 | of the Church. Prayer is God's omnipotence placed at
107 1, 2 40 | history as salvation history. God saves people through their
108 1, 2 40 | cataclysms, toward the kingdom of God. The events of history
109 1, 2 40 | philosophy, everything comes from God and belongs to God, the
110 1, 2 40 | from God and belongs to God, the one and only Truth.~ ~ ~
111 1, 2, a, 40 | a) GOD'S GREATEST GIFT~ ~ ~"Faith
112 1, 2, a, 40 | GREATEST GIFT~ ~ ~"Faith is God's greatest gift"~ ~Faith
113 1, 2, a, 40 | Faith is a gift from God, nay, the first and greatest
114 1, 2, a, 40 | first and greatest gift that God, in his infinite mercy,
115 1, 2, a, 40 | emanating from the throne of God and descending to illumine
116 1, 2, a, 41 | religion emanates directly from God ‑- who is at once the first
117 1, 2, a, 41 | agreement with the dictates of God's eternal law (...).~ ~In
118 1, 2, a, 41 | man, be it in relation to God, to one's fellowman, or
119 1, 2, a, 41 | Faith brings us closer to God and reveals his mysteries
120 1, 2, a, 42 | us see the gentle hand of God disposing all things for
121 1, 2, a, 42 | infinite good"~ ~Created by God and for God, man's heart
122 1, 2, a, 42 | Created by God and for God, man's heart cannot be perfect
123 1, 2, a, 42 | cannot be perfect except in God and with God. And since
124 1, 2, a, 42 | perfect except in God and with God. And since perfection is
125 1, 2, a, 42 | inclination to be united with God, to be fully satisfied in
126 1, 2, a, 42 | to be fully satisfied in God and to become one with him: "
127 1, 2, a, 42 | desires, seeks, and wants only God. So he looks for him in
128 1, 2, a, 42 | When a person possesses God, what else does he need?"~ ~
129 1, 2, a, 42 | what else does he need?"~ ~God is strictly and essentially
130 1, 2, a, 42 | abides in love, abides in God and God in him because God
131 1, 2, a, 42 | love, abides in God and God in him because God and love
132 1, 2, a, 42 | God and God in him because God and love are one and the
133 1, 2, a, 42 | one and the same thing: "God is love; whoever abides
134 1, 2, a, 42 | abides in love abides in God and God in him."~ ~"When
135 1, 2, a, 42 | in love abides in God and God in him."~ ~"When a person
136 1, 2, a, 42 | When a person possesses God, what else does he need?
137 1, 2, a, 42 | else does he need? For God is our peace." Above all,
138 1, 2, a, 43 | by faith in the word of God and descends into the heart
139 1, 2, a, 43 | need faith because, since God is infinite and we are finite,
140 1, 2, a, 43 | column that led the People of God in the desert, the mysteries
141 1, 2, a, 43 | Bethlehem once again. A God who becomes a crying infant!
142 1, 2, b, 44 | b) THE RESPONSE TO GOD'S GIFT~ ~ ~"Faith is the
143 1, 2, b, 44 | in the eternal scheme of God's manifold grace, become
144 1, 2, b, 44 | affairs, their duties to God, to their fellows and to
145 1, 2, b, 45 | They sense only their God, and in God they find their
146 1, 2, b, 45 | sense only their God, and in God they find their life. They
147 1, 2, b, 45 | talk and work with their God. They suffer, struggle
148 1, 2, b, 45 | struggle and die for their God: "The just man lives by
149 1, 2, b, 45 | to the world but known to God. These virtues beautify
150 1, 2, b, 46 | gifts from the hand of God, who rules his shepherds
151 1, 2, b, 46 | of my consecration. My God, have pity on this poor
152 1, 2, b, 46 | divinize myself. "After God, the bishop is an earthly
153 1, 2, b, 46 | the bishop is an earthly God." My God, "now I begin"
154 1, 2, b, 46 | is an earthly God." My God, "now I begin" with your
155 1, 2, b, 46 | Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on me, a poor
156 1, 2, b, 47 | intention to do all things for God's glory.~ ./. Every week~ ~
157 1, 2, b, 48 | decide on this.~ ~Maybe God wants this sacrifice so
158 1, 2, b, 48 | If I want to, I can. My God, help me.~ ~Particular resolutions
159 1, 2, b, 48 | intoxicated by the cross!..." God trains us with tribulations,
160 1, 2, b, 49 | ejaculatory prayers.~ ~ My God, my love, my all, help me!
161 1, 2, b, 49 | disillusionments are part of God's plans.... I will never
162 1, 2, b, 49 | Blessed are you, my God!~ ~ I must have courage
163 1, 2, b, 49 | blood freeze!~ ~ My God, have mercy on me!~ ./.
164 1, 2, b, 50 | Spirit!"~ ~2. Since God created me, I must serve
165 1, 2, b, 50 | created me, I must serve him. God's creation continues in
166 1, 2, b, 50 | the saints are servants of God. The apostles take pride
167 1, 2, b, 50 | myself to the service of God ex toto corde.~ ~
168 1, 2, b, 50 | corde to the service of God purely, simply, without
169 1, 2, b, 50 | wholly to the service of God. He experiences intense
170 1, 2, b, 50 | experiences intense joys! My God, help me! "Come, 0 come,
171 1, 2, b, 51 | concrete deeds and fidelity to God, I am as far away as earth
172 1, 2, c, 51 | NOURISHES FAITH~ ~ ~"'Prayer is God poured into our hearts"~ ~
173 1, 2, c, 51 | but it also makes us enjoy God's friendship, God's most
174 1, 2, c, 51 | enjoy God's friendship, God's most tender effusions,
175 1, 2, c, 51 | s most tender effusions, God's most intimate secrets.
176 1, 2, c, 51 | intimate secrets. Prayer is God coming down to us when invoked;
177 1, 2, c, 51 | to us when invoked; it is God poured forth, infused into
178 1, 2, c, 51 | beautiful expression; it is God, our Creator, our Father,
179 1, 2, c, 52 | which to love him. When God created human beings, he
180 1, 2, c, 52 | This voice rising up to God in the name of the whole
181 1, 2, c, 52 | everything from the hand of God -- sovereignty, power, intelligence
182 1, 2, c, 52 | prostrate itself and give God the homage and submission
183 1, 2, c, 53 | flesh exult in the living God," the Prophet exclaims.
184 1, 2, c, 53 | passing through the heart of God, the center and hearth of
185 1, 2, c, 53 | family.23~ ~ ~"The Word of God himself prayed"~ ~Since
186 1, 2, c, 53 | prayed"~ ~Since the Word of God became man to teach us not
187 1, 2, c, 55 | People speak and God listens; they command and
188 1, 2, c, 55 | listens; they command and God obeys"~ ~In a word, what
189 1, 2, c, 55 | lifting of the spirit to God, the source of life. In
190 1, 2, c, 55 | heaven. People speak and God listens. They command and
191 1, 2, c, 55 | listens. They command and God grants their requests.
192 1, 2, c, 55 | boldly: people command and God obeys. "He does the will
193 1, 2, c, 55 | Who can stand up to God? Prayer"~ ~In heaven, this
194 1, 2, c, 55 | strong with the very power of God: "there is nothing more
195 1, 2, c, 55 | surpasses the very power of God: "God is omnipotent," the
196 1, 2, c, 55 | the very power of God: "God is omnipotent," the Prophet
197 1, 2, c, 56 | seen good people praying, God's ministers praying, many
198 1, 2, c, 56 | appease the justice of God and help put back the avenging
199 1, 2, c, 56 | the mysterious depths of God, we would be amazed at seeing
200 1, 2, c, 57 | and irresistible need"~ ~God is the supreme and wise
201 1, 2, c, 57 | belong to ourselves but to God, it is clear that we owe
202 1, 2, c, 57 | submission to the will of God. And, as such, prayer will
203 1, 2, c, 57 | prayer lifts up our hearts to God, it detaches us from the
204 1, 2, c, 57 | this vital element, namely God's grace which a person breathes
205 1, 2, c, 58 | insights of science.32~ ~ ~"God's plans will infallibly
206 1, 2, c, 58 | on. For an all-powerful God nothing is hard, and in
207 1, 2, c, 58 | dashed to the ground by God with no effort at all.
208 1, 2, c, 58 | miracles are necessary, God will perform them.~ ~The
209 1, 2, d, 60 | not suffer. We are afraid God's plan will be destroyed
210 1, 2, d, 60 | fears! Everything is in God's hands: this is a truth
211 1, 2, d, 60 | this is a truth of faith. God is the primary cause and
212 1, 2, d, 60 | if they could not abandon God's plan and follow another.
213 1, 2, d, 60 | plan and follow another. God could stop these people
214 1, 2, d, 60 | punish them on the spot. If God does not do so, St. Augustine
215 1, 2, d, 60 | that is entirely worthy of God's goodness: "evil people
216 1, 2, d, 60 | never thwart the plan of God. We can be sure that God
217 1, 2, d, 60 | God. We can be sure that God lets people operate as long
218 1, 2, d, 60 | people obstruct this plan, God, in the twinkling of an
219 1, 2, d, 60 | prophet at the service of God. How many happenings in
220 1, 2, d, 60 | dispositions prepared by God, who, when we least expect
221 1, 2, d, 60 | considered them eternal (...). God knows when to build and
222 1, 2, d, 61 | heart, no matter how long God seems to be delaying his
223 1, 2, d, 61 | We must show that, if God wants to test our faith,
224 1, 2, d, 61 | trusts unfalteringly in God and is anchored to heaven
225 1, 2, d, 61 | and the Church, because God's way of dealing with the
226 1, 2, d, 61 | show the ease with which God destroys the enemies of
227 1, 2, d, 61 | blessing, everything is in God's hands. He rebuked the
228 1, 2, d, 62 | itself for the Kingdom of God" ~ ~We now see society agonizing
229 1, 2, d, 62 | Roman Empire was ordained by God to prepare the way for the
230 1, 2, d, 62 | in his adorable designs, God is late in answering us,
231 1, 2, d, 62 | on the ineffable truth of God's promises, disregarding
232 1, 2, d, 62 | still spring up to challenge God's plan will gradually disappear,
233 1, 2, d, 63 | thanksgiving and praise to God Almighty. The sun of truth
234 1, 2, d, 63 | Providence"~ ~As you know, God's great plan is to save
235 1, 2, d, 63 | redemption (...).~ ~When God chooses to do something
236 1, 2, d, 63 | are found all the gifts God has divided up among the
237 1, 2, d, 63 | parts of the world.~ ~When God decides to open up this
238 1, 2, d, 63 | On those young nations God lavishes with prodigality ./.
239 1, 2, d, 64 | Christ, to live without God. Anyone can see in this
240 1, 2, d, 64 | can see in this care on God's part, in this predilection,
241 1, 2, d, 64 | earth. At the same time, God wants to insure that this
242 1, 2, d, 64 | experiencing decadence. God is thus opening up to the
243 1, 2, d, 64 | clearly see this plan of God. While the world, gentlemen,
244 1, 2, d, 64 | into being: the union in God through Jesus Christ of
245 1, 2, d, 64 | all people of good will. God's servants who work on earth
246 1, 2, d, 64 | gather all people into one in God through Jesus Christ.~ ~
247 1, 2, d, 64 | Jesus Christ.~ ~In fact, God has done and does everything
248 1, 2, d, 65 | people will not obstruct God's plan, the time will come,
249 1, 2, d, 65 | people into one family"~ ~God wants it! This was the
250 1, 2, d, 65 | successor Pope Leo XIII. God wants it! He wants nations
251 1, 2, d, 65 | remember they are Christian. God wants reason to be reconciled
252 1, 2, d, 65 | rights of the Creator. God wants labor and capital,
253 1, 2, d, 65 | counterpoint. In a word, God wants all elements of civilization --
254 1, 2, d, 66 | people into one family. God wants it! And, without
255 1, 2, d, 66 | without doubt, the will of God will be fulfilled.41~ ~ ~"
256 1, 2, d, 66 | Immutability coexists with God, who is the most active
257 1, 2, d, 66 | nothingness is indeed immobile, God, who is the fullness of
258 1, 2, e, 69 | calling people's attention to God"~ ~In September of 1894,
259 1, 2, e, 70 | harmonious interaction in God: "All things that come from
260 1, 2, e, 70 | All things that come from God are related to each other
261 1, 2, e, 70 | related to each other and to God himself" (St. Thomas).~ ~
262 1, 3 73 | returning to the arms of God. Mary assumed into heaven
263 1, 3 73 | obedience to the saving will of God. By believing in God and
264 1, 3 73 | of God. By believing in God and obeying him, we can
265 1, 3 73 | went through to beget us to God. We trust in them because
266 1, 3 73 | in them because they are God's friends and ours.~ ~The
267 1, 3, a, 73 | MARY~ ~ ~"She glorified God and she, in turn, was glorified
268 1, 3, a, 73 | in turn, was glorified by God.~ ~The person who glorifies
269 1, 3, a, 73 | The person who glorifies God will, in turn, be glorified
270 1, 3, a, 73 | in turn, be glorified by God, says the Lord. And who,
271 1, 3, a, 73 | more than Mary, glorified God on this earth? She glorified
272 1, 3, a, 73 | this earth? She glorified God the Father, God the Son
273 1, 3, a, 73 | glorified God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy
274 1, 3, a, 73 | Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.~ ~She glorified
275 1, 3, a, 73 | Spirit.~ ~She glorified God the Father when, by her
276 1, 3, a, 73 | she made it possible for God the Father to see his domain
277 1, 3, a, 73 | certain way, became the God of God; and this he became
278 1, 3, a, 73 | certain way, became the God of God; and this he became through
279 1, 3, a, 73 | through Mary.~ ~She glorified God the Son when his infinite
280 1, 3, a, 73 | infinite love ‑- which in God's eternal designs caused
281 1, 3, a, 73 | from Mary.~ ~She glorified God the Holy Spirit when, as
282 1, 3, a, 75 | consecrated Mary Mother of God, while in the Cenacle he
283 1, 3, a, 75 | spread of the kingdom of God in the midst of the world (...).~ ~
284 1, 3, a, 76 | Incarnation was the outpouring of God's mercy and love upon a
285 1, 3, a, 76 | returning to the arms of its God. In the 19th century, Mary
286 1, 3, a, 76 | Though she was the Mother of God and was loved by him above
287 1, 3, a, 76 | loving Mediatrix between God and the 19th century"~ ~
288 1, 3, a, 77 | easily to the knowledge of God but the ultimate goal of
289 1, 3, a, 77 | nature and grace, between God and the 19th century, is
290 1, 3, a, 77 | sin, we cannot but glorify God's Goodness, which set her
291 1, 3, a, 77 | of the whole human race; God's Wisdom, which chose her,
292 1, 3, a, 77 | nature by the first Eve; and God's Power, which overwhelmed
293 1, 3, a, 77 | sin, we cannot but profess God's utter freedom vis‑à‑vis
294 1, 3, a, 77 | the infinite Holiness of God, the implacable enemy of
295 1, 3, a, 78 | the Immaculate Mother of God?6~ ~ ~"Mother of consolation"~ ~
296 1, 3, a, 78 | reason is she mother of God: "for us men ... by the
297 1, 3, a, 79 | Yet, though Mother of God, she would never have achieved
298 1, 3, a, 79 | Mary to the degree of grace God grants us. After her example,
299 1, 3, a, 79 | her example, let us ask God, through the intercession
300 1, 3, a, 79 | resigned to the will of God in our tribulations, full
301 1, 3, a, 79 | tribulations, full of love for God and of sincere charity toward
302 1, 3, a, 79 | zealous for the glory of God and the triumph of the Church
303 1, 3, a, 79 | very blood the great truths God has taught us in his mercy.8~ ~ ~"
304 1, 3, a, 80 | close ranks to the throne of God to do him loving violence.
305 1, 3, a, 80 | people's prayers rising and God's mercies descending.~ ~
306 1, 3, a, 81 | are reminded of how much God, Jesus Christ, and Mary
307 1, 3, a, 81 | learn that, for our sakes, God is the all-giving love,
308 1, 3, a, 81 | incense to the very throne of God and turn into a rainfall
309 1, 3, a, 81 | turn into a rainfall of God's choicest graces. Jesus
310 1, 3, a, 81 | stemming from neglect of God and his law have passed
311 1, 3, a, 81 | her to teach me love for God"~ ~You mean you are not
312 1, 3, a, 81 | her to teach me love for God, love for the Cross, holy
313 1, 3, a, 81 | abandonment to the will of God, death to the world and
314 1, 3, b, 82 | saints are the wonders of God's grace"~ ~Just as the works
315 1, 3, b, 82 | creation sing the glories of God, author of nature, so also
316 1, 3, b, 82 | of sanctification glorify God, author of grace. Hence,
317 1, 3, b, 82 | virtues of the saints reflects God's glory who performed such
318 1, 3, b, 82 | saints if not the miracles of God's grace? A person who has
319 1, 3, b, 82 | perfect charity, lives only of God, for God and with God ‑-
320 1, 3, b, 82 | lives only of God, for God and with God ‑- this, says
321 1, 3, b, 82 | of God, for God and with God ‑- this, says St. Augustine,
322 1, 3, b, 82 | of human beings. It is God's work alone. Only God
323 1, 3, b, 82 | God's work alone. Only God who made man can remake
324 1, 3, b, 82 | great in the kingdom of God because of the works they
325 1, 3, b, 83 | Faithfully keeping the laws of God and fulfilling the duties
326 1, 3, b, 84 | really that hard. With a God who comforts us, with a
327 1, 3, b, 84 | who comforts us, with a God who takes us by the hand
328 1, 3, b, 84 | us before the throne of God today and always, we would
329 1, 3, b, 84 | life, all for the glory of God. This is the true, the
330 1, 3, b, 85 | power of the martyrs before God has always been great"~ ~
331 1, 3, b, 85 | martyrs as permeated with God's life, as something holy
332 1, 3, b, 85 | power of the martyrs before God has always been great.
333 1, 3, b, 85 | martyrs have given witness to God by their blood, and through
334 1, 3, b, 85 | through their intercession God grants the faithful graces
335 1, 3, b, 85 | diocese, I confess that God filled my heart with consolation
336 1, 3, b, 88 | and title of children of God (...).~ ~In this faith,
337 1, 3, b, 88 | fact doing, knowing that God is faithful. Your faith
338 1, 3, c, 89 | stain, a punishment from God, a curse that could only
339 1, 3, c, 90 | birthplace, the Word of God chose Bethlehem, the least
340 1, 3, c, 90 | deserving of esteem than what a God esteems and honors? When
341 1, 3, c, 92 | poor person is the pupil of God's eye"~ ~Oh, the poor!
342 1, 3, c, 92 | poor person is the pupil of God's eye, and what we do for
343 1, 3, c, 92 | the poor person we do for God himself.26~ ~ ~"The Church
344 1, 3, c, 92 | then, are the ministers of God who will be chosen to establish
345 1, 3, c, 92 | does not work that way: "God chose the lowly and the
346 1, 3, c, 92 | In creating his Church, God followed the same steps
347 1, 3, c, 92 | the direct handiwork of God's infinite power? And what
348 1, 3, c, 93 | charity. They abided in God and God in them: "he who
349 1, 3, c, 93 | They abided in God and God in them: "he who abides
350 1, 3, c, 93 | abides in charity abides in God and God in him." Their
351 1, 3, c, 93 | charity abides in God and God in him." Their work, blessed
352 1, 3, c, 93 | the most precious gift God could have bestowed on his
353 1, 3, c, 93 | the Lord. Or better yet, God himself knows you, God who
354 1, 3, c, 93 | God himself knows you, God who accompanies you with
355 1, 3, c, 94 | clear up again and that God will bless our dreams because
356 1, 3, c, 94 | a person we are helping God's very image and that we
357 1, 3, c, 94 | image and that we do so at God's command and out of love
358 1, 3, c, 95 | cheer, dearly beloved. If God keeps you in your sufferings
359 1, 3, c, 95 | episcopacy. Prostrate before God's infinite greatness, I,
360 1, 3, c, 96 | miserable people. With God's help, I was able to collect
361 2 102 | among men, as the family of God, as the body of Christ,
362 2 102 | coresponsibility "for the glory of God and the salvation of souls,"
363 2 102 | bishop is the mediator of God and the Pope before priests
364 2, 1 104 | salvation. She is the family of God, the city of God. She is
365 2, 1 104 | family of God, the city of God. She is one but she is
366 2, 1, a, 105 | just, all the friends of God, not just those who are
367 2, 1, a, 106 | of her founder, at once God and Man. So the Church
368 2, 1, a, 106 | Church is the Spirit of God, as the Apostle tells us: "
369 2, 1, a, 106 | grace from the bosom of God and makes it flow, like
370 2, 1, a, 106 | himself in his Church"~ ~God left an imprint of his glory
371 2, 1, a, 106 | the head of creation ‑- God depicted the living image
372 2, 1, a, 106 | universality because he is the God of immensity, perpetuity
373 2, 1, a, 106 | because he is the eternal God. Just as, in creating the
374 2, 1, a, 107 | intelligent beings, namely, God. Into his Church he put
375 2, 1, a, 107 | her.4~ ~ ~"The destiny of God and the Church are inseparable"~ ~
376 2, 1, a, 107 | inseparable"~ ~The destiny of God and his spouse are inseparable.
377 2, 1, b, 109 | sustained solely by the arm of God. Despite all the powers,
378 2, 1, b, 109 | s power is at work here, God's force, might and omnipotence
379 2, 1, b, 110 | as a mother cannot have God as a father."~ ~The Church
380 2, 1, b, 110 | teaching.~ ~Between us and God stand our parents and the
381 2, 1, b, 110 | natural life flows from God to all creation through
382 2, 1, b, 111 | infinite beauty and goodness of God who is our whole love.
383 2, 1, b, 111 | merits of Jesus Christ our God, to whom be honor, wisdom,
384 2, 1, c, 111 | The greatest work of God the Father is Jesus Christ,
385 2, 1, c, 112 | is offered to the name of God. She is holy in her worship,
386 2, 1, c, 112 | holy zeal for the glory of God and the salvation of souls,
387 2, 1, c, 112 | attribute of the true Church. God is holiness by nature.
388 2, 1, c, 112 | Church, which comes from God, must bear the mark of holiness.
389 2, 1, c, 113 | nature, as it were (...). A God who is just and infinitely
390 2, 1, c, 113 | She commands us to love God with our whole heart, to
391 2, 1, c, 113 | the love that comes from God. Finally, she urges us
392 2, 1, c, 114 | fact, the Apostle says: "God has so constructed the body ...
393 2, 1, c, 115 | of the elect, the City of God?~ ~Let us look at the vast
394 2, 1, c, 115 | prayers you offered up to God today with your Bishop are
395 2, 1, c, 115 | elect and of the city of God? So, why should they not
396 2, 1, c, 116 | arrives at the throne of God. From up there, the bounteous
397 2, 1, c, 116 | the bounteous mercy of God flows down over the earth
398 2, 1, d, 116 | the army, the kingdom of God, the body of Christ, must
399 2, 1, d, 116 | the dispersed children of God, in the same way there must
400 2, 1, d, 116 | same Head, representing God ‑- namely unity in communion ‑-
401 2, 1, d, 116 | the sacraments"~ ~Since God is one and truth is one,
402 2, 1, d, 117 | the same words, all offer God the same sacrifice of praise,
403 2, 1, d, 118 | family and of the Church, as God instituted them. In them,
404 2, 1, d, 118 | accept the position in which God has put him, since God is
405 2, 1, d, 118 | which God has put him, since God is the author of honors,
406 2, 1, d, 118 | joy is doing the will of God. St. Paul says that we
407 2, 1, d, 119 | into a dwelling place of God through the Spirit.~ ~These
408 2, 1, d, 119 | truly form the house of God only if they are intimately
409 2, 1, d, 120 | subjects in the Church of God, believe they can also have
410 2, 1, d, 120 | centuries and which, thank God, she knows how to turn to
411 2, 1, d, 120 | victorious. Reason, history and God's promises are on her side.
412 2, 1, d, 122 | and thinks it is honoring God by attacking people who
413 2, 1, d, 123 | and hidden bonds that only God knows (...).~ ~Though separated
414 2, 1, d, 124 | above all, have recourse to God in prayer, because we must
415 2, 1, d, 124 | man tosses and turns, but God is leading him. I repeat:
416 2, 1, e, 125 | assembly of the children of God, the army of the living
417 2, 1, e, 125 | the army of the living God, his kingdom, his city,
418 2, 1, e, 126 | the learning Church"~ ~If God wants a unifying and guiding
419 2, 1, e, 126 | divine, and the life of God is reflected in her. The
420 2, 1, e, 128 | her activities. Hence, God cries out to us in the words
421 2, 1, e, 129 | patient and put our trust in God's help alone. But don't
422 2, 1, e, 130 | cower and cringe? Only God knows. What I know is that
423 2, 1, e, 130 | completely at peace with whatever God allows to happen not only
424 2, 1, e, 130 | and work on her behalf at God's bidding."36~ ~ ~
425 2, 1, f, 130 | her by human beings but by God himself, the invisible and
426 2, 1, f, 130 | the way to the throne of God. In fact, Jesus Christ
427 2, 1, f, 130 | heaven where the very laws of God are written.~ ~So, it follows
428 2, 1, f, 130 | the Church as a command of God. Hence, whoever opposes
429 2, 1, f, 130 | decisions, defies and resists God himself: "he ./. who despises
430 2, 1, f, 131 | sacrifice one can offer God because it is the holocaust
431 2, 1, f, 132 | faith, I will continue, with God's help, to defend among
432 2, 1, f, 132 | please not human beings but God, who is the just judge of
433 2, 1, f, 133 | position, in the presence of God and of the Church. May
434 2, 1, f, 133 | and of the Church. May God make me worthy of such a
435 2, 1, f, 133 | entrusting these people to God and blessing them with all
436 2, 1, f, 133 | because he is in much need of God's help. Assure them he
437 2, 1, f, 134 | stand surety for them before God.41~ ~ ~
438 2, 1, g, 134 | every time she reminds us of God's commandments or enjoins
439 2, 1, g, 134 | repeats the same words: love God and love your neighbor.
440 2, 1, g, 134 | love your neighbor. Love God with all your mind, with
441 2, 1, g, 134 | the love that comes from God.~ ~But she shows her maternal
442 2, 1, g, 135 | celebrates their return to God.~ ~Unfortunately, our age
443 2, 1, g, 136 | is the most precious gift God could bestow on his people.
444 2, 1, g, 136 | commandment of love for God, sets us poor pilgrims on
445 2, 2 137 | are, that they can reach God only through Jesus Christ,
446 2, 2, a, 137 | proclaimed the freedom of God's children to all people.
447 2, 2, a, 138 | reach our glorious goal; and God will be with us.1~ ~ ~"The
448 2, 2, a, 138 | sacred keys, the deputy of God. In a word, he is Jesus
449 2, 2, a, 138 | key-bearer of the house of God, the vigilant sentry of
450 2, 2, a, 139 | such a father that, after God, no one is more a father
451 2, 2, a, 140 | raises is the banner of God. In Peter we will find
452 2, 2, a, 140 | unites us with Christ, with God.4~ ~ ~"Through the Pontiff
453 2, 2, a, 140 | Son of Mary, to the true God"~ ~The Roman Pontiff is
454 2, 2, a, 140 | to the true and living God, who gives himself to us
455 2, 2, a, 140 | beginning. Without doubt, God, Jesus Christ, the Virgin
456 2, 2, b, 141 | they were the judgments of God, your definitions as if
457 2, 2, b, 141 | cause, which is the cause of God.9~ ~Together with my priests
458 2, 2, b, 142 | faithful, will obtain from God for the priests and people
459 2, 2, b, 143 | resides who takes the place of God on earth (...).~ ~They go
460 2, 2, b, 143 | go to bear witness before God and man, in the most explicit
461 2, 2, b, 144 | earth; that we are with God because Christ is God, one
462 2, 2, b, 144 | with God because Christ is God, one God with the Father
463 2, 2, b, 144 | because Christ is God, one God with the Father and the
464 2, 2, c, 144 | in mind only the glory of God and the good of the souls
465 2, 2, c, 144 | the little time the good God will grant me entirely to
466 2, 2, c, 145 | which alone can call down God's blessings on our labors
467 2, 2, c, 146 | Pontiff since we can go to God only through Jesus Christ.
468 2, 3 148 | representative of a merciful and just God. His only concern is that
469 2, 3 148 | endowed with authority from God, having received from the
470 2, 3, a, 148 | I wept and prayed to the God of all mercies, imploring
471 2, 3, a, 148 | unmistakably the will of God. Trusting in the grace
472 2, 3, a, 149 | consecrates the ministers of God; that he is judge, teacher,
473 2, 3, a, 149 | teachings of the Word of God. What they set before your
474 2, 3, a, 149 | made eternal priest by God the Father with an irrevocable
475 2, 3, a, 150 | is an angel appointed by God to guide us on the paths
476 2, 3, a, 150 | Christian people before God. He who is Pontiff for
477 2, 3, a, 150 | bishops to rule the Church of God."~ ~Through an uninterrupted
478 2, 3, a, 150 | living and sole temple of God. The Pope is its foundation;
479 2, 3, a, 151 | On earth people yearn for God, they need God, they thirst
480 2, 3, a, 151 | yearn for God, they need God, they thirst for God. In
481 2, 3, a, 151 | need God, they thirst for God. In their hearts they nourish
482 2, 3, a, 151 | creator, heaven and earth, God and man. This is the bishop'
483 2, 3, a, 151 | spiritual kingdom, the bishop is God's sentinel. That is why
484 2, 3, a, 151 | those obstacles that keep God from entering the hearts
485 2, 3, a, 151 | similar to the fatherhood of God.~ ~Hence, a bishop feels
486 2, 3, a, 153 | interests of Jesus Christ? My God, what have we come to!
487 2, 3, a, 153 | What humiliations! May God help and comfort him! I'
488 2, 3, a, 154 | alluded to and judged. My God, what an abomination! I
489 2, 3, a, 154 | I am pleasing Almighty God.11~ ~Jealous of the hierarchical
490 2, 3, b, 156 | the kingdom promised by God to those who love him (Jas
491 2, 3, b, 156 | all the flaming arrows of God's enemies, and taking the
492 2, 3, b, 156 | spirit, which is the word of God, "I will fight the good
493 2, 3, b, 156 | completely to you so that God's kingdom may spread and
494 2, 3, b, 156 | and tearfully imploring God himself to make my works
495 2, 3, b, 157 | numquam excidit (...).~ ~God is love. Now, the more
496 2, 3, b, 157 | more people are united with God, the more they are full
497 2, 3, b, 157 | a bishop loves not only God or just his brothers and
498 2, 3, b, 157 | fullness of the Holy Spirit to God, who by nature is truth,
499 2, 3, b, 157 | people: Even if some day God were to permit your ingratitude ./.
500 2, 3, c, 159 | the teacher gifted with God's most special assistance,