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
Ioannes Paulus PP. II
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was ready to fail under them: those
who were about her, and knew not what was the matter, were surprised,
and thought she was dying.
Many have spoken much of their hearts being drawn out in love to God and
Christ; and of their minds being wrapt up in delightful contemplation of
the glory and wonderful grace of God, the excellency and dying love of
Jesus Christ; and of their souls going forth in longing desires after
God and Christ. Several of our young children have expressed much of
this; and have manifested a willingness to leave father and mother and
all things in the world, to go and be with Christ; some persons having
had such longing desires after Christ, or which have risen to such
degree, as to take away their natural strength. Some have been so
overcome with a sense of the dying love of Christ to such poor,
wretched, and unworthy creatures, as to weaken the body. Several persons
have had so great a sense of the glory of God, and excellency of Christ,
that nature and life seemed almost to sink under it; and in all
probability, if God had showed them a little more of Himself, it would
have dissolved their frame. I have seen some, and conversed with them in
such frames, who have certainly been perfectly sober, and very remote
from any thing like enthusiastic wildness. And they have talke