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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hear of
the signs of grace laid down for them to try themselves by, they are
often so clouded, that they do not know how to apply them. They hardly
know whether they have such and such things or no, and whether they have
experienced them or not. That which was the sweetest, best, and most
distinguishing in their experiences, they cannot recover a sense of. But
on a return of the influences of the Spirit of God, to revive the lively
actings of grace, the light breaks through the cloud, and doubting and
darkness soon vanish away.
Persons are often revived out of their dead and dark frames by religious
conversation: while they are talking of divine things, or ever they are
aware, their souls are carried away into holy exercises with abundant
pleasure. And oftentimes, while relating their past experiences to their
Christian brethren, they have a sense of them revived, and the same
experiences are in a degree again renewed. Sometimes, while persons are
exercised in mind with several objections against the goodness of their
state, they have Scriptures one after another coming to their minds, to
answer their scruples, and unravel their difficulties, exceedingly
apposite and proper to their circumstances. By these means, their
darkness