Love

Happiness comes from truth and love from Christ
St. Hilary of Poitiers, one of the great Fathers of the Church, wrote that he became a believer when he understood, in listening to the Gospel, that for a truly happy life both the possession and the tranquil enjoyment of things were insufficient and that there was something more important and precious: the knowledge of the truth and the fullness of the love given by Christ (cf. "De Trinitate," 1,2).

Service

 (Christ's) community follows another rule, another logic, another model: "Whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all... And Jesus also indicates the reference point: the Son of man who came to serve. In other words he sums up his mission in the category of service, not meant in a generic sense but in the concrete sense of the Cross, of the total gift of life as a "ransom", as redemption for many, and he points it out as a condition of the "sequela"". -Benedict XVI >>>



Love Crucified