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Prayer raises our minds and hearts to God to thank him for his blessings, to ask him for his help. It brings the saving power of Jesus Christ into the decisions and actions of everyday life. One prayer in particular I recommend to families: the one we have just been praying, the Rosary. ~Greeting in St. Patrick's, Visit to the United Nations and the United States, October 7, 1995	The breath of the divine life, the Holy Spirit, in its simplest and most common manner, expresses itself and makes itself felt in prayer. It is a beautiful and salutary thought that, wherever people are praying in the world, there the Holy Spirit is, the living breath of prayer. ~Dominum et Vivificantem, May 5, 1986
Our difficult age has a special need of prayer. ~Dominum et Vivificantem, May 5, 1986	As a prayer for peace, the Rosary is also, and always has been, a prayer of and for the family. ~Rosarium Virginis Mariae, October 16, 2002
The kingdom aims at transforming human relationships; it grows gradually as people slowly learn to love, forgive and serve one another. ~Redemptoris Missio, December 7, 1990	No human sin can erase the mercy of God, or prevent him from unleashing all his triumphant power, if we only call upon him. ~Veritatis Splendor, August 6, 1993