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You shall love the Lord your God…

Commetary on the Word of Life: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and all your mind. (Mt 22:37) The debate was common between schools of rabbis at the time of Jesus. The Scriptures have many commandments: which is the first? Jesus was considered a teacher and he did not duck the question when asked: ‘Which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He gives an original answer, uniting love of God with love of neighbour. His disciples can never separate these two loves, as the leaves of a tree cannot be separated from its roots. The more they love God, the more intensely they love their brothers and sisters; the more they love their brothers and sisters, the more they deepen their love for God. Jesus knows, more than anyone, the true nature of the God we must love. And so he knows just how God is to be loved: God is his Father and our Father, his God and our

2021-08-15T23:29:29+02:0029 April 2011|

Giovanni Paolo II al Centro Mariapoli

Rocca di Papa, 19 agosto 1984 Durante la sua visita al Centro Internazionale del Movimento dei Focolari a Rocca di Papa, Giovanni Paolo II esprime spontaneamente a Chiara e alle persone presenti la sua gratitudine e il suo incoraggiamento.

2022-09-12T17:34:45+02:0029 April 2011|

John Paul II at the Mariapolis Centre

Rocca di Papa, August 19, 1984 {rokbox title=|Speech of John Paul II at the Mariapolis Centre :: Rocca di Papa, 19 August 1984 | size=|561 350| thumb=|images/video/gp2_19840819.jpg|}http://vimeo.com/23158890&autoplay=1{/rokbox} Video available only in original language Speech of John Paul II at the Mariapolis Centre (in the open) Transcription

2021-09-02T03:20:52+02:0029 April 2011|

La Desolata

Maria ai piedi della croce, nello straziante «stabat» che fa di lei un mare amaro di angoscia, è l’espressione più alta, in umana creatura, dell’eroicità di ogni virtù. Ella è la mansueta per eccellenza, la mite, la povera fino alla perdita del suo Figlio che è Dio, la giusta che non si lamenta d’esser privata di ciò che le appartiene per pura elezione, la pura nel distacco affettivo a tutta prova dal suo Figlio Dio... In Maria Desolata è il trionfo delle virtù della fede e della speranza per la carità che l’accese durante tutta la vita e qui l’infiammò nella partecipazione così viva alla Redenzione. Maria ci insegna nella sua desolazione, che l’ammanta di ogni virtù, a coprirci di umiltà e di pazienza, di prudenza e di perseveranza, di semplicità e di silenzio perché nella notte di noi, dell’umano che è in noi, brilli per il mondo la luce di Dio che abita in noi. Maria addolorata è la Santa per eccellenza, un monumento di santità cui tutti gli uomini

2021-08-31T02:01:59+02:0015 April 2011|

Mary Desolate

Mary at the foot of the cross, in her heart-rending stabat that makes of her a bitter sea of anguish, is the highest expression in a human creature of heroism in every virtue. … The Desolate is meekness par excellence, gentle, poor to the point of losing her Son who is God, … the righteous one who does not complain when deprived of what was given her purely by election; the pure one in emotional detachment, tested to the utmost, from her Son who is God … In her is the triumph of the virtues of faith and hope through the charity that enflamed her throughout her life, and here set her ablaze as she participated in such a living way in the Redemption. … Mary, in the desolation that clothed her with every virtue, furthermore will teach us to equip ourselves with patience, perseverance, simplicity and silence, so that in the night of what is human in us, there may shine out for the world the light of God dwelling

2021-08-15T23:29:22+02:0015 April 2011|
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