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Fr. Deacon John posted:
Seeing him hunched over, physically old, and frail, the Holy Father is for me the embodiment of this passage from Paul's 2nd Letter to the Corinthians:
"But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body. For we who live are constantly being given up to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh." (2 Cor 4:7-11)
May God grant the servant of the servants of God, John Paul, the Pope of Rome, many years
AMEN!
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From my standpoint, the beatification of Hieromartyr Nicholas (Charnetsky) has been - so far - the high point of John Paul II's pontificate. But I live in hope that he will top that with the beatification of Metropolitan Andrew. Incognitus
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It warms my heart to read everyone's kind words about JPII. I have admired him for years and am honoured to have been baptized while he is still the Pope.
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Twenty four years ago, October 7 1979, I was standing in the crowd on the Mall in Washington, DC, during the new Pope's Mass. I had reluctantly been dragged there by my Protestant girlfriend. I was a young Evangelical, fresh from hippiedom, and a fallen-away Catholic with deep suspicion about the Pope and about Roman Catholicism. Was he the antichrist, like my Protestant friends thought? Or the vicar of Christ, like I was taught as a child?
As Mass began, I started listening to the words of the liturgy. Then the Pope began his homily, in his thick Polish accent. As he spoke I found myself moved: he denounced consumerism, divorce, abortion and contraception. Would the antichrist speak this way, to a crowd of modern Americans?
I found a priest in the crowd and made my first confession since childhood and have been a Catholic since.
My debt to the Pope is not for any of his great documents or words of truth, it is profoundly personal: when I heard this man I heard Peter; he brought me back to the true Faith. He will be known someday as Pope St. John Paul the Great. May God richly bless him!
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To our holy oecumenical pontiff, John Paul, Pope of Rome, many years.
Stephanos I
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Daniel,
What a moving story you have!
Not only you are blessed...but we the Church is BLESSED to have YOU.
SPDundas
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