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POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
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POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
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POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
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boldly angelic.
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the diseased slums of a broken heart
into a ...
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and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.
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from the love we insist on holding back.
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and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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gnawing wings that amputate––
then spread, lift up, fly.
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so we never forg...
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is a book with cloud pages
that snow pearls of love.
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spilling blood across the ring
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ABERJHANI Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist.
Pink dragonflies fall from the air
and ...
ABERJHANI And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
--from The Light, That Never Dies
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