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Marino (Rome), 25 May 2002 Addressing an audience of thousands of teenagers from the world over, and not only Christians, Chiara narrates how God called her while she was carrying out a “simple” act of love. Could you tell us about your vocation? And if some of us should feel this call, how should we answer? This story is very well-known. In any case, there might be one person here who does not know it, so I will tell it.I was at home. I had two younger sisters and an older brother. We were rather poor (...). TextVideo en italian

Rome, 25 october 1994 Commentary of the Word of Life: May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all (1 Thes. 3:12). These words are one of those expressions often used by Paul where he both wishes for and asks the Lord for special graces for his communities (cf. Eph. 3:18; Phil. 1:9). Here he asks for the Thessalonians to have the grace of an ever-greater, overflowing mutual love. It is not meant as a veiled criticism, as if mutual love didn’t already exist in the community. Rather, it’s a reminder of a law present in the nature of love itself: the law of its constant growth. May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all. Since love is the core of Christian life, if it doesn’t grow, the whole life of a Christian is affected, grows feeble and may even die.It’s not enough to have had the light to understand the commandment to love our neighbour