Root your hearts in the firm foundation of God's love for you. Discover the Heart of Christ, and do not be afraid to build your lives upon Him (1 Jn 4:16). In doing so, you will not only find the fullness you seek, but you will also be able to share with those around you the warmth of God's love and the reconciling power of His grace.
Only in the cross of Jesus is evil overcome; only in his passion does our mortal weariness find consolation and redemption. In slavery, Christ is liberation. Amid the scourge of war, Christ is hope. In the hour of sin, Christ is forgiveness.
“Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens”, says the Lord in the #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 11:25–30). Jesus takes upon himself humanity wounded by evil in order to heal and care for it.
Only mercy can respond, with new beginnings, to the depths of the human heart and to the horrors of war. We have entered a millennium in which we must give spiritual, cultural, legal, political and economic expression to the civilization of love. May the enormity of the suffering we witness help us grasp the radical nature of this call.
There is no love of God without love of neighbor, and there is no neighbor if I do not draw near. To pause, to be moved, to bend down, to weep before another’s pain — as Jesus did — means entering into the dynamic of love, the very movement in which God has revealed himself. https://t.co/Sp8wiXw1Pr