“Where is my heart? …
May this question accompany us
this whole week.”
- Pope Francis, Palm Sunday
homily (2014)
The Missal,
John William Waterhouse (1902)
"We need to implore his grace
daily, asking him to open our cold hearts and shake up our
lukewarm and superficial existence. Standing before him with open hearts,
letting him look at us, we see that gaze of love which Nathaniel glimpsed on the
day when Jesus said to him: 'I saw you under the fig tree' (Jn 1:48).
How good it is to stand before a
crucifix, or on our knees before the Blessed Sacrament, and
simply to be in his presence! How much good it does
us when he once more touches our lives and impels us to share his new life! What
then happens is that 'we speak of what we have seen and heard' (1 Jn
1:3).
The best incentive for sharing
the Gospel comes from contemplating it with love, lingering over
its pages and reading it with the heart. If we approach it in this way, its
beauty will amaze and constantly excite us. But if this is to come about,
we need to recover a
contemplative spirit which can help us to realize ever anew that
we have been entrusted with a treasure which makes us more human and helps us to
lead a new life. There is nothing more precious which we can give to others."
From Evangelii Gaudium,
264 – Pope Francis’ apostolic
exhortation
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