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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truth and divinity
thereof. She sometimes would appear with a pleasant smile on her
countenance; and once, when her sister took notice of it, and asked why
she smiled, she replied, I am brim-full of a sweet feeling within. She
often used to express how good and sweet it was to lie low before God,
and the lower (says she) the better! and that it was pleasant to think
of lying in the dust, all the days of her life, mourning for sin. She
was wont to manifest a great sense of her own meanness and dependence.
She often expressed an exceeding compassion, and pitiful love, which she
found in her heart towards persons in a Christless condition. This was
sometimes so strong, that, as she was passing by such in the streets, or
those that she feared were such, she would be overcome by the sight of
them. She once said, that she longed to have the whole world saved; she
wanted, as it were, to pull them all to her, she could not bear to have
one lost.
She had great longings to die, that she might be with Christ: which
increased until she thought she did not know how to be patient to wait
till God's time. But once, when she felt those longings, she thought
with herself, If I long to die, why do I go to physicians? Whence she
concluded that her longings for death were not well regulated. After
this she o