"By the time John Paul II was elected to the papacy in 1978, he had followed several vocations and avocations-student, laborer in a stone quarry, actor, playwright, philologist, seminarian, mystic, pastor and philosopher. These gave him a particularly rich background for the work he was destined to do in the Church. Not only did he develop his formidable intellectual gifts through teaching in philosophy and moral theology, but he gained invaluable experience of ordinary life through work during the war as a laborer and in a different way as a parish priest and youth counselor. He acquired a deep respect for manual labor and the dignity of the ordinary man. So he wrote in a poem called ‘Participation: How splendid these men, no airs, no graces, I know you, look into your hearts, No pretense stands between us, Some hands are for toil, some for the cross."
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Mary Shivinandan, “Crossing the Threshold of Love: A New Vision of Marriage in the Light of John Paul II’s Anthropology”, The Theater of the Word, p.3
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