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I ASK
You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith. So, as I depart, I ask you to accept once again your spiritual heritage…with faith, hope, and love….
I ask that you never despair, never grow weary, never become discouraged; that the roots from which we grow are never severed; that you keep your faith despite your weaknesses, that you always seek strength in Him; that you never lose that freedom of spirit for which He has liberated man; that you never spurn that love…expressed by the Cross, without which human life has no roots and no meaning.
I ask this of you.
Pope John Paul II
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TRUST
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa, MC
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THE PEARL THAT IS BURIED
Most of the time, in reality, the vocation to embrace the priestly life is not revealed in itself, directly, but it must be detected as if it were the pearl of the Gospel that is buried in the field. In effect, God, Who reserves to Himself the calling of those whom He chooses, nevertheless asks for the collaboration of the sacred ministers so that the young men may become aware of the action that divine grace operates and that they might bring to maturity the divine seed placed in their souls.
Pope Paul VI
Dec. 3, 1966
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THE SPIRIT INTERCEDES
“The Spirit too helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in speech. He who searches hearts knows what the Spirit means, for the Spirit intercedes for the saints as God Himself wills.”
Romans 8:26-27
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