I wrote this quote down in my journal from Damon Owens (TOB Institute Executive Dir.) from the Catholic conference in Denver last Friday. I looked it up and guest what, he was actually quoting Pope John Paul back in June of 1979 around the beginning to the end of Communism in Poland. The article below was written by George Weigel and an excerpt for the article is below. The entire article can be accessed by the below link.
I think we can all keep this in mind in our own lives as our culture today thinks who we are. I implore you to find who YOU are as a person and not what someone else thinks you should be.
"Rather, he
spoke over, around, and beyond the regime directly to the people of
Poland, not about what the world usually understands as power, but about
people power—the power of culture and spiritual identity. “You are not
who ‘they’ say you are,” the Pope proposed, in a number of variations on
the same theme; “let me remind you who you really are.” George Weigel, quoting PJP2.
http://catholicexchange.com/june-1979%E2%80%94the-nine-days-of-john-paul-ii/
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