Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the though…

Pope Benedict XVI
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Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful book within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a capacity for God because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.
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