J.M.J. "19. Our thoughts turn to all the
lands of this earth. We see all mankind striving for a better future; We
see the awakening of a mysterious force, and this permits Us to hope
that men will be drawn by a right conscience and a sense of duty to
advance the real interests of human society. That this goal may be
realized in the fullest sense--that is, with the triumph of the kingdom
of truth, justice, peace, and charity--We exhort all Our children in
Christ to be 'of one heart and one soul'' and to pour out ardent
prayers in October to our Queen in heaven and our loving Mother,
reflecting upon the words of the Apostle: 'In all things we suffer
tribulation, but we are not distressed; we are sore pressed, but we are
not destitute; we endure persecution, but we are not forsaken; we are
cast down, but we do not perish; always bearing about in our body the
dying of Jesus, so that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in
our bodily frame.'"
--Saint John XXIII, Encyclical Grata Recordatio (September 26, 1959).
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