Sentences with phrase «paul consecrated»
The same year will mark another notable anniversary, for it will be 30 years since Blessed John Paul consecrated the world, including Russia, to Mary's Immaculate Heart, as requested at Fatima, ushering in the collapse of Communism five years later, and the great wave of conversion to Christianity that has since swept the country.
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Pope St John Paul consecrated the world to Mary in 1984, and things did indeed change dramatically in Russia.
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For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.
The whole of the teaching of Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, and likewise that of Paul and of the rest of the New Testament, presupposes a background of intense, informed, earnest, and consecrated Judaism.
Pope John Paul did consecrate the world, including Russia, to Mary in 1984; and five years later the Russian atheistic empire, which had caused so much misery and under which some nations had been crushed and virtually annihilated, crumbled and was gone.
This was one of the many reasons Lefebvre — against the expressed will of Pope John Paul II — consecrated four new SSPX bishops in 1988, provoking a schism, his own excommunication, and those of others directly involved.
We have a leadership crisis in the Church at the level of bishops and archbishops, most of whom were consecrated under Blessed John Paul II.
Blessed John Paul said to consecrated women:
Paul says, «A woman who is really widowed and left without anybody can give herself up to God in hope and consecrate all her days and nights to petitions and meetings for prayer» (1 Tim.
Bishops are normally consecrated at St Paul's Cathedral in London, but the Archbishop of Canterbury is understood to have given special permission for Bishop David to be consecrated at his local cathedral in Winchester.