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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Jews
and the Gentiles shall be mingled.
6. Proof by the key which Jesus Christ and the Apostles give us.
643. Isaiah 51. The Red Sea an image of the Redemption. Ut sciatis quod
filius hominis habet potestatem remittendi peccata... tibi dico: Surge.116
God, wishing to show that He could form a people holy with an invisible
holiness, and fill them with an eternal glory, made visible things. As
nature is an image of grace, He has done in the bounties of nature what He
would do in those of grace, in order that we might judge that He could make
the invisible, since He made the visible excellently.
Therefore He saved this people from the deluge; He has raised them up from
Abraham, redeemed them from their enemies, and set them at rest.
The object of God was not to save them from the deluge, and raise up a whole
people from Abraham, only in order to bring them into a rich land.
And even grace is only the type of glory, for it is not the ultimate end. It
has been symbolised by the law, and itself symbolises glory. But it is the
type of it, and the origin or cause.
The ordinary life of men is like that of the saints. They all seek their
satisfaction and differ only in the object in which they place it; the