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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the matter;
and to think that for want of judgment, I take every religious pang, and
enthusiastic conceit, for saving conversion. I do not much wonder if
they should be apt to think so; and, for this reason, I have forborne to
publish an account of this great work of God, though I have often been
solicited. But having now a special call to give an account of it, upon
mature consideration I thought it might not be beside my duty to declare
this amazing work, as it appeared to me to be indeed divine, and to
conceal no part of the glory of it; leaving it with God to take care of
the credit of His own work, and running the venture of any censorious
thoughts, which might be entertained of me to my disadvantage. That
distant persons may be under as great advantage as may be to judge for
themselves of this matter, I would be a little more large and
particular.
SECTION II. The Manner of Conversion Various, Yet Bearing a Great
Analogy.
I therefore proceed to give an account of the manner of persons being
wrought upon; and here there is a vast variety, perhaps as manifold as
the subjects of the operation; but yet in many things there is a great
analogy in all.-Persons are first awakened with a sense of their
miserable condition by nature, the danger they are in of perishing
eternally, and that it is of great importance to them that they speedily
escape and get into a better state. Those who before were secure and
senseless, are made sensible how much they were in the way to ruin, in
their former courses. Some are more suddenly seized with convictions-it
may be, by the news of others' conversion, or some thing they hear in
public, or in private conference-their consciences are smitten, as if
their hearts were pierced through with a dart. Others are awakened more
gradually, they begin at first to be something