Loving God is one of the key points of the new evangelization. This was stated by Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the papal preacher, in his first Lenten sermon, held this morning in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel in the Apostolic Palace. The Capuchin friar noted that one of the effects of secularization is to consider love as something exclusively human. Instead, the believer knows that there is a transcendent dimension of love that turns to God and which finds new nourishment in turning to one's neighbour. A life consecrated to God in the priesthood and religious profession, said Father Cantalamessa, discovers and rediscovers love in its original unity.

Loving God is one of the key points of the new evangelization. This was stated by Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the papal preacher, in his first Lenten sermon, held this morning in the Redemptoris...leggi tutto