‘May 2025 be a year in which peace flourishes! A true and lasting peace that goes beyond quibbling over the details of agreements and human compromises. May we seek the true peace that is granted by God to hearts disarmed: hearts not set on calculating what is mine and what is yours; hearts that turn selfishness into readiness to reach out to others; hearts that see themselves as indebted to God and thus prepared to forgive the debts that oppress others; hearts that replace anxiety about the future with the hope that every individual can be a resource for the building of a better world’.
From Pope Francis’ Message for World Day of Peace
‘Consideration needs to be given to the growing danger represented by an extreme individualism which weakens family bonds and ends up considering each member of the family as an isolated unit, leading in some cases to the idea that one’s personality is shaped by his or her desires, which are considered absolute’.
Pope Francis, The Joy of Love, 33.
‘What we need is a more responsible and generous effort to present the reasons and motivations for choosing marriage and the family, and in this way to help men and women better to respond to the grace that God offers them’.
Pope Francis, The Joy of Love, 35.
‘Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection’.
St Benedict of Nursia
‘Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mould them accordingly’.
St Ignatius of Loyola
‘To have courage for whatever comes in life, everything lies in that’.
St Teresa of Avila
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