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A Pope’s Homily at Auschwitz
APOSTOLIC PILGRIMAGE TO POLAND
HOLY MASS AT THE CONCENTRATION CAMP
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
Auschwitz-Bierkenau, 7 June 1979
1. "This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith" (1 Jn 5:4).
These words from the...
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Prayer for Christian Unity by Pope John Paul II
(What follows is a prayer penned by Pope Saint John Paul II, which goes along with his longer meditation on unity between Catholics and what we might call the 'Christian diaspora', those corporate bodies...
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Timely Words from a Far Off Place
(On this feast of the Holy Family, in my breakfast reading, I stumbled across this homily from Pope Saint John Paul II which he offered back in 1986 in Perth, Australia - ironically, the...
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Urbi et Orbi 2002
(Here is the Christmas address of Pope Saint John Paul II, from way back in 2002, and the needs for which he prayed seventeen years ago are much the same now as then; in...
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The Baptist and the Second Sunday of Advent
Angelus, Second Sunday of Advent, 7 December 2003
1. "Prepare the way of the Lord, clear him a straight path" (Lk 3: 4).
This invitation of St John the Baptist resounds strongly on this Second Sunday...
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John Paul II’s First Visitation as Pope
CONCLUSION OF THE MARIAN MONTH
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
31 May 1979
"And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord" (Lk...
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Saint Faustina’s Merciful Jubilee
A blessed Second Sunday of Easter, or Sunday in the Octave of Easter or, now, Divine Mercy Sunday, proclaimed so by Pope (now Saint) John Paul II in the Jubilee year 2000, when Easter...
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Pope Saint John Paul II’s Last Passion Sunday
(This is the last of Pope Saint John Paul II's Passion-Palm Sunday homilies, given in 2004, before his own passion and death the following year, when he was unable - for the first time...
