{"id":7017,"date":"2024-10-22T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/?p=7017"},"modified":"2024-10-22T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T21:16:09","slug":"jesus-holds-the-secret-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/pope-benedict-xvi\/jesus-holds-the-secret-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus holds the secret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/oct22-cp.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"537\" data-attachment-id=\"3940\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-reflections\/jesus-holds-the-secret\/attachment\/oct22-cp-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/oct22-cp.jpg?fit=592%2C537&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"592,537\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;movie&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"oct22-cp\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/oct22-cp.jpg?fit=592%2C537&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/oct22-cp.jpg?resize=625%2C567&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3940\" style=\"width:855px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/oct22-cp.jpg?w=592&amp;ssl=1 592w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/oct22-cp.jpg?resize=300%2C272&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him. True joy is a victory ..<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Christ holds the secret of this victor<\/strong>y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pope Saint John Paul II<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-saints-and-blesseds","category-spiritual-practices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bfMR-1Pb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8776,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/pope-benedict-xvi\/jesus-holds-the-secret-to-happiness\/","url_meta":{"origin":7017,"position":0},"title":"Jesus holds the secret to happiness","author":"monks4christ","date":"October 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"He is waiting for you It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; 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