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No One Else Can Want For Me. No One Can Substitute His Act Of Will For Mine. It Does Sometimes Happen That Someone Very Much Wants Me To Want What He Wants. This Is The Moment When The Impassable Frontier Between Him And Me, Which Is Drawn By Free Will, Becomes Most Obvious. I May Not Want That Which He Wants Me To Want - And In This Precisely I Am Incommunicabilis. I Am, And I Must Be, Independent In My Actions. All Human Relationships Are Posited On This Fact.

Jesus Christ Has Taken The Lead On The Way Of The Cross. He Has Suffered First. He Does Not Drive Us Toward Suffering But Shares It With Us, Wanting Us To Have Life And To Have It In Abundance.

We Are The People Of Life, Because God, In His Unconditional Love, Has Given Us The Gospel Of Life, And We Are Called To Act Accordingly.

Love Of Christ Does Not Distract Us From Interest In Others, But Rather Invites Us To Responsibility For Them, To The Exclusion Of No One….

Motherhood Involves A Special Communion With The Mystery Of Life, As It Develops In The Mother's Womb. The Mother Is Filled With Wonder At This Mystery Of Life, And 'understands' With Unique Intuition What Is Happening Inside Her. In The Light Of The 'beginning', The Mother Accepts And Loves As A Person The Child She Is Carrying In Her Womb. This Unique Contact With The New Human Being Developing Within Her Gives Rise To An Attitude Towards Human Beings - Not Only Towards Her Own Child, But Every Human Being - Which Profoundly Marks The Woman's Personality.