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To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

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Pope Pius XII
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: March 2
Died: 1958
Died: October 9
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The Eternal City
Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli
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God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.
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Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.
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If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
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To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.
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These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.
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You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
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Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father, so also in this clean oblation (Mal 1:2), He, as Head of the Church, offers not only Himself but, in Himself, all His mystical members.
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[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.
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How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.
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The good of our soul is more important than that of our body and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts. . . If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up.
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True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him'
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God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.
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Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth.
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A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’
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When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to the ground was to rearrange her dress to cover her thigh, because she was more concerned for modesty than pain.
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True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
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That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.
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It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.
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