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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another nature; for when God withdraws, they find themselves as
it were blind again, they for the present lose their realizing sense of
those things that looked so plain to them, and, by all they can do, they
cannot recover it, till God renews the influence of His Spirit.
Persons after their conversion often speak of religious things as
seeming new to them; that preaching is a new thing; that it seems to
them they never heard preaching before; that the Bible is a new book:
they find there new chapters, new psalms, new histories, because they
see them in a new light. Here was a remarkable instance of an aged
woman, of about seventy years, who had spent most of her days under Mr.
Stoddard's powerful ministry. Reading in the New Testament concerning
Christ's sufferings for sinners, she seemed to be astonished at what she
read, as what was real and very wonderful, but quite new to her. At
first, before she had time to turn her thoughts, she wondered within
herself, that she had never heard of it before; but then immediately
recollected herself, and