in the jubilee year 2000, Pope John Paul II, whose initiate gave birth to WYD told the world’s Catholic youth: ‘It is Jesus you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will…
in the jubilee year 2000, Pope John Paul II, whose initiate gave birth to WYD told the world’s Catholic youth: ‘It is Jesus you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.’ (https://coramfratribus.com/notebook/)
// it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle //
In these days when electronic communications, especially television, are enabling a great increase in mass propagandizing, the stifling is intensifying far beyond anything possible before. Propaganda well done can be extremely effective.
I've not been able to subscribe to coramfratribus.com from the iPad (the software refuses to recognize the Return key). I will try to remember to try later from the PC.
in the jubilee year 2000, Pope John Paul II, whose initiate gave birth to WYD told the world’s Catholic youth: ‘It is Jesus you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.’ (https://coramfratribus.com/notebook/)
// it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle //
In these days when electronic communications, especially television, are enabling a great increase in mass propagandizing, the stifling is intensifying far beyond anything possible before. Propaganda well done can be extremely effective.
I've not been able to subscribe to coramfratribus.com from the iPad (the software refuses to recognize the Return key). I will try to remember to try later from the PC.