“Getting to know God’s love in Jesus Christ, experiencing it by staring at Him, until we fully live off the experience of His love, so that afterwards we can testify it to others”. This is the course proposed by the Pope, prompted by the liturgical memory of today which is the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, considered by the Pope a help “to understand the value of a veritably-Christian life, to steer clear of some perversions of the heart, to join one’s filial love of God to the love of one’s neighbour”. According to the Pope, “the deepest meaning of this cult of God’s love becomes clear only when one considers its contribution, not only to the knowledge but also, and above all, to the personal experience of such love in one’s confident devotion to serve Him. Experience and knowledge cannot be separated: they are related to each other”. “Prayer, generous helpfulness, silent adoration” are the inner attitudes recommended by the Holy Father to recognise God’s love “with gratitude” and “open up to such love so that our life can be more and more often shaped by it”, through a “glance” that “helps us become more attentive to other people’s sufferings and needs”. “The cult of love that becomes manifest in the mystery of the Cross, which is proposed at every Mass concluded the Pope , is a prerequisite for us to become people who know how to love and how to devote our lives”.
