Saturday, October 26, 2024

Papal Notes - Dilexit Nos

"On October 24, 2024, the Vatican published Pope Francis’ latest
encyclical Dilexit Nos which explores the concept of love, both human and divine, through the symbolism of the Heart of Jesus.

Pope Francis is seeking to shape the world by embracing a type of “lovethat supersedes God’s law and the Holy Scriptures
---This is how you get people to abandon their faith by only focusing on a superficial form of love that is devoid of truth and substance.

21. Everything finds its unity in the heart, which can be the dwelling-place of love in all its spiritual, psychic and even physical dimensions. In a word, if love reigns in our heart, we become, in a complete and luminous way, the persons we are meant to be, for every human being is created above all else for love. In the deepest fibre of our being, we were made to love and to be loved.” 

43. Although the Scriptures preserve Jesus’ words, ever alive and timely, there are moments when he speaks to us inwardly, calls us and leads us to a better place. That better place is his heart.” 

177. Saint Bernard, in exhorting us to union with the heart of Christ, draws upon the richness of this devotion to call for a conversion grounded in love. Bernard believed that our affections, enslaved by pleasures, may nonetheless be transformed and set free, not by blind obedience to a commandment but rather in response to the delectable love of Christ.” 

28. It is only by starting from the heart that our communities will
succeed in uniting and reconciling differing minds and wills, so that the Spirit can guide us in unity as brothers and sisters. Reconciliation and peace are also born of the heart.


True love, as defined by Scripture, is inseparable from truth and righteousness—it seeks what is holy, just, and in line with God’s commands.
If ye love Me, keep my commandments.John 14:15.
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous.1 John 5:3." AdventMessenger