Today’s short episode is all about John Paul II, his legacy, and what I am doing to carry on his work!
John Paul II what a guy! He was a huge adventurer, loved sports, and his mind was incredible. He didn’t have an easy life but he made the best of it. Writing plays to perform with his friends, writing poetry, taking youth on camping adventures, his adventures knew no bounds.
He was influential in a lot of ways but in particular, his mind was a huge gift. He spend a lot of time contemplating with the Lord. This influenced everything he did and all his writing and work. He had such draw to the real presence in the Eucharist that he would stop what ever he was going as he passed a chapel and he would go in and pray for hours. This became a logistical problem when he was pope, so much that he would be guided away from chapels so that he could stay on task and on time. Removing himself from what was going on the world to contemplate the Lord led him to his reflections on the topics in his writing and teaching.
He was influential to two groups of people in particular: before his pontificate there was no pope or any really official writings from the Church specifically addressed to women. His writings to women were monumental for the Church’s understanding of women. Similarly his love for and words directed toward young people made a huge impact on the world and each young person in it.
He is widely known for his work on the theology of the body and how those reflections have deepened so many people’s understanding of our human bodies. There are even people who have converted to the faith after encountering his reflections on theology of the body. Incredible.
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John Paul II’s legacy is incredible. I love JP II for so many reasons but I feel especially close to him in my work. I also have dedicated my life and work to young people and women, and knowing that I am such good company is comforting.
He wrote a whole lot but this quote of his in particular I love. I even send it out to all of my clients! If you enroll in my program you’ll get one too.
“It is Jesus 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 provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.”
John Paul II
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