The 6 most beautiful quotes from the encyclical “Dilexit nos” on the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Pope Francis published, on October 24, 2024, “Dilexit nos”, the fourth encyclical of his pontificate. Discover the 6 striking quotes from his text on the Sacred Heart of Jesus halfway between today and popular pieties.
- “You could say that I am my heart, because it is he who distinguishes me, shapes me in my spiritual identity and puts me in communion with others. »
- “The heart is also capable of unifying and harmonizing personal history, which seems fragmented into a thousand pieces but where everything can have meaning. This is what the Gospel expresses with Mary who looked with her heart. »
- “What no algorithm will ever be able to take into account is, for example, that time from childhood that we remember with fondness and which continues to occur in the four corners of the planet, even if the years go by . (…) Because the fork, the jokes, the window, the ball, the shoebox, the book, the bird, the flower… are based on the tenderness that we keep in the memories of the heart. »
- “Everything unifies in the heart which can be the seat of love with all of its spiritual, emotional and even physical components. Ultimately, if love reigns there, the person realizes their identity in a full and luminous way, because every human being was created above all for love, they are made in their deepest fibers to love and be loved. »
- “Seeing grandmothers cry without it being intolerable to us is the sign of a heartless world. »
