Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the profound mystery and spiritual significance of the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, emphasizing the divine presence in the child and the Eucharist.
Pope John Paul II's quote highlights the awe and reverence felt by believers as they consider the miraculous nature of Jesus's birth in Bethlehem, a town literally meaning 'house of bread.' It suggests that in recognizing the divine mystery of this event, individuals can find spiritual nourishment and solace, symbolized by the 'Eucharistic Bread,' which represents the essence of life and sustenance in a spiritual sense.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a Christmas celebration to reflect on the meaning of Jesus's birth.
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.
Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.
I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.
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