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Happiness

“It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness, he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise…It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives…the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more compassionate.” –Pope John Paul II

"Never forget that Jesus in the tabernacle wants you to be at his side, so that he can fill your hearts with the experience of his friendship, which alone gives meaning and fulfilment to your lives." – Pope JPII

Dear young people, receive the love that God first gives you (cf. 1Jn 4:19). Hold fast to this certainty, the only one that can give meaning, strength and joy to life: his love will never leave you, his covenant of peace will never be removed from you (cf. Is 54:10). He has stamped your name on the palms of his hands (cf. Is 49:16). –Pope John Paul II

The Holy Father

“Young pilgrims, Christ needs you to enlighten the world and to show it the path to life…place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion, and your fortitude at the service of life…the Church needs your energies…in order to make the Gospel of life penetrate the fabric of society.”-World Youth Day ‘93

It is the nature of human beings, and especially youth, to seek the Absolute, the meaning and fullness of life. Dear young people, do not be content with anything less than the highest ideals! Do not let yourselves be dispirited by those who are disillusioned with life and have grown deaf to the deepest and most authentic desires of their heart. You are right to be disappointed with hollow entertainment and passing fads, and with aiming at too little in life. If you have an ardent desire for the Lord you will steer clear of the mediocrity and conformism so widespread in our society. - Pope John Paul II

“We are not capable of loving if we are not loved…Being aware [that we are loved by God], young people of today and adults of the new millennium…in the Church and in the various environments of your daily existence, become credible witnesses to the Father’s love!” -Pope John Paul II

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. -Pope John Paul II

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. -Pope Benedict XVI

Prayer

“Every Christian needs a half hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.” - Saint Francis of Sales

Prayer is quite simple. We must not complicate matters. When Jesus was asked by His disciples how to pray, He taught them the Our Father. He said simply to talk to God as to our father, a loving father.

--Mother Teresa

The Eucharist

"Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament...There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon the earth." -J R R Tolkien

"The transubstantiated Host (the Eucharist) is the anticipation of the transformation and divinization of matter in the christological "fullness". In this view, the Eucharist provides the movement of the cosmos with its direction; it anticipates its goal and at the same time urges it on." -Teilhard de Chardin

"When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food." - St. Francis de Sales

"What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood." - St. Francis of Assisi

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