In his homily at Santa Marta, Pope Francis described what God's love is like. He said it's like a mother's love, a personal love, not an abstract love.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS Finally, the pope explained that Christ loves even great sinners with the same tenderness, because He pities each of His children.<\/p>\n EXTRACTS OF THE POPE'S HOMILY<\/p>\n \u201cHe felt this in love. I ask myself: do I love the Lord like him? When hard times come, how often do we feel the desire to say: \u2018The Lord has abandoned me. He doesn\u2019t love me anymore\u2019 and then seek to abandon the Lord in turn. But Paul was sure that the Lord would never abandon him. He had understood the love of Christ in his own life. This is the path that Paul shows us: the path of love at all times, through thick and thin, at every moment. This is the greatness of Paul.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is really He Who was sent by the Father to save us. He did so with love. He gave His life for me: There is no greater love than to give your life for another person. We can think about a mother \u2013 the love of a mother, for example \u2013 who gives her life for her child, accompanying him or her through life in difficult moments\u2026 Jesus\u2019 love is near to us, and is not an abstract love. It is a You-Me\/Me-You love \u2013 each of us \u2013 with our own name and surname.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cThe love of Christ drives Him to weep, to weep for each of us. What tenderness we find in this expression. Jesus could have condemned Jerusalem, say horrible things\u2026 But he laments that she would not allow herself to be loved like the hen\u2019s chicks. <\/p>\n This is the tender love of God in Jesus. Which is exactly what Paul understood. If we cannot feel or understand the tender love of God in Jesus for each of us, then we will never, never, be able to understand the love of Christ. It is a type of love that waits patiently, like the love with which He plays His last card with Judas: \u2018Friend\u2019, offering him a way out, even until the end. <\/p>\n He loves even the worst sinners with this tenderness, all the way up to the end. I\u2019m not sure we think about Jesus being so tender \u2013 Jesus who cries, as He cried before the tomb of Lazarus, as He cried here looking out over Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 31, 2019. He explained what God's love is like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pVy3wH129a8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta3110eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta3110int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>'<\/em><\/strong>If we cannot feel or understand the tender love of God in Jesus for each of us, then we will never, never, be able to understand the love of Christ. It is a type of love that waits patiently, like the love with which He plays His last card with Judas: \u2018Friend,\u2019 offering him a way out, even until the end.'<\/em><\/p>\n