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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life and fortunes of men, to bestow on those who worship Him a long and
happy life. That was the portion of the Jews. But the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Christians, is a God of love and
of comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom He possesses, a
God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and His infinite
mercy, who unites Himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility
and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other
end than Himself.
All who seek God without Jesus Christ, and who rest in nature, either find
no light to satisfy them, or come to form for themselves a means of knowing
God and serving Him without a mediator. Thereby they fall either into
atheism, or into deism, two things which the Christian religion abhors
almost equally.
Without Jesus Christ the world would not exist; for it should needs be
either that it would be destroyed or be a hell.
If the world existed to instruct man of God, His divinity would shine
through every part in it in an indisputable manner; but as it exists only by
Jesus Christ, and for Jesus Christ, and to teach men both their corruption
and their redemption, all displays the proofs of these two truths.
All appearance indicates neither a total exclusion nor a manifest presence
of divinity, but the presence of a God who hides himself. Everything bears
this character.
.. Shall he alone who knows his nature know it only to be miserable? Shall
he alone who knows it be alone unhappy?
.. He must not see nothing at all, nor must he see sufficient for him to
believe he possesses it; but he must see enough to know that he has lost it.
For to know of his loss, he must see and not see; and that is exactly the
state in which he naturally is.
.. Whatever part he takes, I shall not leave him at rest.
557.... It is, then, true that everything teaches man his condition, but he
must understand this well. For it is not true that all re