Prayers and Devotions

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ERE is a treasury of selected passages from the writings and addresses of perhaps the most forceful, charismatic leader of the Catholic Church the world has ever known. This book is, as its editor. Bishop Peter Canisius Johannes van Lierde, suggests, "a harvest from the mind and heart of Pope Wojtyla."
And so you will spend a few moments with the Pope each day of the liturgical year through these pages of his reflections. This devotional was prepared to offer the modem reader, engaged with various daily tasks, the opportunity to know and to enter into the heart and mind of Pope John Paul 11.
His concerns as expressed in these passages include such topics as "Sharing with Others," "To Be in Peace," "Consumer Society" ("Man is created for happiness. Yes! But man's happiness is not identified with enjoy-
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ERE is a treasury of selected passages from the writings and addresses of perhaps the most forceful, charismatic leader of the Catholic Church the world has ever known. This book is, as its editor. Bishop Peter Canisius Johannes van Lierde, suggests, "a harvest from the mind and heart of Pope Wojtyla."
And so you will spend a few moments with the Pope each day of the liturgical year through these pages of his reflections. This devotional was prepared to offer the modem reader, engaged with various daily tasks, the opportunity to know and to enter into the heart and mind of Pope John Paul 11.
His concerns as expressed in these passages include such topics as "Sharing with Others," "To Be in Peace," "Consumer Society" ("Man is created for happiness. Yes! But man's happiness is not identified with enjoy-
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ment! In such enjoyment the consumer-oriented man loses the full dimension of his humanity"), 'The Great Divine Trial," about the meaning of his near-assassination, "The Christian Family in the Modem World," and "Family Prayer." Through these pages of calm reflection each day, all will find a moment of peaceful repose from the occupations of life.
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FROM THE PREFACE BY
BISHOF PETER CANISIllS OHANNES m LIERD
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WHILE FOLLOWING WITH DUTIFUL ATTENTION THE PASTORAL ACTIVITIES AND OVERALL TEACHING OF THE HOLY FATHER, JOHN PAUL II, I SOUGHT TO GRASP WITH STRICT OBJECTIVITY THE PONTIFF'S THOUGHT ON A
VAST SERIES OF MYSTERIES, EVENTS, CELE-*
BRATIONS, AND COMMEMORATIONS, WHICH
THE LITURGICAL CYCLE POSTULATES, REPRE-
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SENTS, AND PROPOUNDS IN ITS COURSE OF
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE DAYS. Vissza