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gile but christianly mature\u00a0girl say to today’s young people, through her life and above all through her\u00a0heroic death?” Pope John Paul II asked on her feast day in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“What does this fragile but christianly mature\u00a0girl say to today’s young people, through her life and above all through her\u00a0heroic death?” Pope John Paul II asked on her feast day in 2003.<\/p>\n
The Pope\u00a0went on to say: “Marietta,\u00a0as she was lovingly called, reminds the youth of the third millennium that true\u00a0happiness demands courage and a spirit of sacrifice, refusing every compromise\u00a0with evil and having the disposition to pay personally, even with death,\u00a0faithful to God and his commandments<\/strong>. How timely this message is.<\/p>\n Today,\u00a0pleasure, selfishness and directly immoral actions are often exalted in the\u00a0name of the false ideals of liberty and happiness. It is essential to reaffirm\u00a0clearly that purity of heart and of body go together, because chastity ‘is the\u00a0custodian’ of authentic love.” “What does this fragile but christianly mature\u00a0girl say to today’s young people, through her life and above all through her\u00a0heroic death?” Pope John Paul II asked on her feast day in 2003. The Pope\u00a0went on to say: “Marietta,\u00a0as she was lovingly called, reminds the youth of the third millennium that true\u00a0happiness demands courage and a … Continue reading Saint Maria Goretti<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32057],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32355,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25686\/revisions\/32355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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