Jan XVII Letter to Friends 2017

‘How can anything good come from what is intrinsically illogical?’ ‘How much of God’s will can there still be if we have already defined it in advance?’ ‘How alive are we, as long as we have not yet died? Questions dominate the 2017 John XVII Friends Letter.

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