“From the Heart of Christ, the human heart learns to understand the true and unique sense of human life and destiny, to understand the value of an authentically Christian lifestyle, to keep itself from certain perversions of the human heart, and to join a filial love of God to a love of neighbor.”
Letter of Pope St John Paul II to the Reverend Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Paray-le-Monial (France), 5 October 1986
Letter of Pope St John Paul II to the Reverend Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Paray-le-Monial (France), 5 October 1986
“Above all the Church knows that her message is in harmony with the most secret desires of the human heart when she champions the dignity of the human vocation, restoring hope to those who have already despaired of anything higher than their present lot. Far from diminishing man, her message brings to his development light, life and freedom…. The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light. For Adam, the first man, was a figure of Him Who was to come,(20) namely Christ the Lord. Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear. It is not surprising, then, that in Him all the aforementioned truths find their root and attain their crown.”
Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constiution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes : 21, 22
