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
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came at the
time foretold, but not with the expected glory; and thus men did not think
it was He. After His death, Saint Paul came to teach men that all these
things had happened in allegory; that the kingdom of God did not consist in
the flesh, but in the spirit; that the enemies of men were not the
Babylonians, but the passions; that God delighted not in temples made with
hands, but in a pure and contrite heart; that the circumcision of the body
was unprofitable, but that of the heart was needed; that Moses had not given
them the bread from heaven, etc.
But God, not having desired to reveal these things to this people who were
unworthy of them and having, nevertheless, desired to foretell them, in
order that they might be believed, foretold the time clearly, and expressed
the things sometimes clearly, but very often in figures, in order that those
who loved symbols might consider them and those who loved what was
symbolised might see it therein.
All that tends not to charity is figurative.
The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
All which tends not to the sole end is the type of it. For since there is
only one end, all which does not lead to it in express terms is figurative.
God thus varies that sole precept of charity to satisfy our curiosity which
seeks for variety, by that variety which still leads us to the one thing
needful. For one thing alone is needful, and we love variety; and God
satisfies both by these varieties, which lead to the one thing needful.
The Jews have so much loved the shadows and have so strictly expected them
that they have misunderstood the reality, when it came in the time and
manner foretold.
The Rabbis take the breasts of the Spouse for types, and all that does not
express the only end they have, namely, temporal g