I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep appreciation for music as an essential part of life.
Pope John Paul II's quote reflects his profound love for music, indicating that it brings him joy and sweetness in his life. The phrase 'Polish sin' suggests that he sees his passion for music as a delightful indulgence rather than a moral failing, emphasizing music's transformative and uplifting power.
In practice
During a speech about the power of creativity, this quote could illustrate the importance of music in our lives.
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.
Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.
I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause.
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
And will I like being called a jazz-baby?_x000D_ You will love it.
I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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