For many people today, practical atheism is the normal rule of life...If this attitude becomes a general existential position, then freedom no longer has any standards, then everyting is possible and permissible.
No one is forced to be a Christian. But no one should be forced to live according to the "new religion" as though it alone were definitive and obligatory for all mankind.
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."
“If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
Today is the Octave Day of Easter, Low Sunday as it is also know in the Tridentine rite, and also Divine Mercy Sunday, in accordance with the wishes of Pope John Paul II, who has today been raised to a saint, and is to be know as Saint John Paul II.
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