Love: what is it

 WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER-live our lives with love-02-26-24 “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful” (v. 36). It is not a catchphrase, but a life commitment. (..) If we look at the history of salvation, we see that the whole of God’s revelation is an unceasing and untiring love for mankind: God is like a father or mother who loves with an unfathomable love and pours it out abundantly on every creature. Jesus’ death on the Cross is the culmination of the love story between God and man.  A love so great that God alone can understand it. It is clear that, compared to this immeasurable love, our love will always be lacking. But when Jesus calls us to be merciful like the Father, he does not mean in quantity! He asks his disciples to become signs, channels, witnesses of his mercy. The Church can be nothing other than a sacrament of God’s mercy in the world, at every time and for all of mankind. Every Christian, therefore, is called to be a witness of mercy, and this happens a...

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USA: New Initiative Strives to Explain the Perennial Question: “What is Love?” - ZENIT - English : The Love Means More initiative is an ongoing campaign, based around a new website that takes a deep dive into the meanings of love.

  It's all about love https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/264431 via @sistersreport

  The Sanctuary of Collevalenza is  located in the center of the Italian peninsula, very close to the Municipality of Todi, in the Umbria region . Inspired by the Lord, in this place, Mother Hope of Jesus built the Sanctuary of Merciful Love. http://www.collevalenza.it/Inglese/SanctuaryOfMercifulLove.htm

 https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/12/14/st---john-of-the-cross--priest-ad-doctor-of-the-church--discalce.html "Today I'm going to sing the Office in Heaven" A religious vocation and the call to the Carmelite charism were clearly manifest in the life of St John. He was born Juan de Yepes Álvarez, the son of poor parents from Castile, near Avila. He was eighteen when, in 1563, he left the Jesuit College of Medina del Campo where he studied the humanities, rhetoric and classical languages. Soon afterwards he met Teresa of Jesus. It was an encounter that would change their lives forever. St John was already a priest and was fascinated by her plan to reform the Carmelite Order, including the male branch. They worked together, sharing idea and proposals, and together inaugurated the first house of Discalced Carmelites in 1568 in Duruelo, in the province of Avila. It was then, when he, along with others, created the first reformed male community, that St John adopted the new...