Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
Ioannes Paulus PP. II
Nationalism, capitalism, and hoarding. The idea of every nation
should be forgot, price should be struck from the commons, and
princes should be seen for the devils they are. The sins include
our church, secret societies, and other religions which make of
the spirit of God a divide."
Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005
Ioannes Paulus PP. II
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apart from his rank, would have the same veneration. He fought
no battles for the eyes to feast upon; but he has given his discoveries to
all men. Oh! how brilliant he was to the mind!
Jesus Christ, without riches and without any external exhibition of
knowledge, is in His own order of holiness. He did not invent; He did not
reign. But He was humble, patient, holy, holy to God, terrible to devils,
without any sin. Oh! in what great pomp and in what wonderful splendour He
is come to the eyes of the heart, which perceive wisdom!
It would have been useless for Archimedes to have acted the prince in his
books on geometry, although he was a prince.
It would have been useless for our Lord Jesus Christ to come like a king, in
order to shine forth in His kingdom of holiness. But He came there
appropriately in the glory of His own order.
It is most absurd to take offence at the lowliness of Jesus Christ, as if
His lowliness were in the same order as the greatness which He came to
manifest. If we consider this greatness in His life, in His passion, in His
obscurity, in His death, in the choice of His disciples, in their desertion,
in His secret resurrection, and the rest, we shall see it to be so immense
that we shall have no reason for being offended at a lowliness which is not
of that order.
But there are some who can only admire worldly greatness, as though there
were no intellectual greatness; and others who only admire intellectual
greatness, as though there were not infinitely higher things in wisdom.
All bodies, the firmament, the stars, the earth and its kingdoms, are not
equal to the lowest mind; for mind knows all these and itsel