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Knowing how to love is never a thing acquired once and for all. We must begin anew every day. We must practice it.... We have to learn the art of loving every day. Pope Francis, Regina Coeli, May 21, 2017
When Jorge Bergoglio was a young Jesuit, he wrote a statement of his personal beliefs. It began, I want to believe in God the Father who loves me like a child, and in Jesus, the Lord who infused my life with His Spirit, to make me smile and so carry me to the eternal Kingdom of life. The elements of this credo inspired the selection and arrangement of the reflections gathered here: Pope Franciss thoughts on love for God and each other, and most importantly Gods love for us. Here are his most intimate thoughts about the purpose and promise of love, the greatest power for the transformation of reality.
Whether you are at the beginning, middle, or end of your spiritual journey, may Pope Franciss words open your eyes to true love: the kind of love that will never end.
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Believe in Love is published in collaboration with the Libreria Editrice Vaticana. All excerpts 2014-2018 Libreria Editrice Vaticana and used by permission. Jorge Bergolios Personal Credo reprinted from Austen Ivereigh, The Great Reformer (New York: Henry Holt, 2014), 100-101. Used with permission.
Cover and book design by Mark Sullivan
Cover image Giampiero Sposito | Reuters
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Francis, Pope, 1936- author. | Stamwitz, Alicia von, editor.
Title: Believe in love : inspiring words from Pope Francis / Pope Francis ;
edited by Alicia von Stamwitz.
Description: Cincinnati : Franciscan Media, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018028244 | ISBN 9781632532572 (trade paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Love--Religious aspects--Catholic Church. | Catholic
Church--Doctrines.
Classification: LCC BV4639 .F6613 2018 | DDC 241/.4--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018028244
Print ISBN 978-1-63253-257-2
Ebook ISBN 978-1-63253-247-3
Copyright 2018, Franciscan Media. All rights reserved.
Published by Franciscan Media
28 W. Liberty St.
Cincinnati, OH 45202
www.FranciscanMedia.org
Introduction ~ v
Chapter One ~ I believe in love, and I want to love a lot ~
Chapter Two ~ I believe in the goodness of others, and I want to love others without fear ~
Chapter Three ~ I believe in Gods patience, as good and as welcoming as a summers night ~
Chapter Four ~ I believe in Jesus, who infused my life with his Spirit to make me smile ~
Chapter Five ~ I believe in the surprise of each day, in which love and strength will be manifest ~
Chapter Six ~ I believe in my life story, and in the eternal kingdom of life ~
Appendix ~ I Believe: Personal credo of Jorge Mario Bergoglio ~
The heart of the human being aspires to great things, lofty values, deep friendships, ties that are strengthened rather than broken by the trials of life. The human being aspires to love and to be loved. This is our deepest aspiration: to love and be loved; and definitively.
Pope Francis, July 5, 2014
Long before Jorge Bergoglio was elected to the papacy, he was an ordinary person trying to live a Christian life in a complex world. He was the eldest of five children, born to first-generation Italian immigrants in Argentina. He played soccer and basketball, liked to dance, cook, and play the piano, and had a lively sense of humor. Before joining the Jesuits, he worked as a janitor at a stocking factory and studied chemistry. Early in his seminary days, he was love-struck by a young woman he met at a family wedding. Her beauty and intellectual radiance dazzled him and left him sleepless for a week.
In the end, as we know, Jorge chose religious life over marriage. But his rich and varied life experience has served him well as pope. When he speaks about the universal human desire to love and be loved, listeners sense a genuine understanding of human nature. His voice rises with excitement. He becomes animated, and a world of emotions plays across his face. Joy. Tenderness. Hope. Rage against hatred and injustice. Delight in kindness and goodness. Confidence that all will be well, because Gods love will triumph in the end.
A few weeks before his thirty-third birthday, on an eight-day retreat to prepare for his ordination, Jorge wrote a short Credo, or statement of his personal beliefs (see Appendix). This credo is the springboard for the quotes gathered in this new collection of Pope Franciss written and spoken words since his election in March 2013. Here are his most intimate thoughts about the purpose and promise of love, the greatest power for the transformation of reality.
Although the chapters and quotations have been arranged in a certain way, they may be read in any order. Let your experience and curiosity be your guide. Trust your instincts, trust yourself, and trust that the message you most need to hear will find you. Whether you are at the beginning, middle, or end of your spiritual journey, may Pope Franciss words open your eyes to true love: the kind of love that will never end.
Alicia von Stamwitz, editor
God calls each one of you by name. All of you are the you of God, precious in his eyes, worthy of respect and loved (cf. Isaiah 43:4). Welcome with joy this dialogue that God offers you, this appeal he makes to you, calling you by name.
MESSAGE TO YOUTH,
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
In todays Gospel, Jesus says: Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28). The Lord knows how arduous life can be. He knows that many things weary the heart: disappointments and wounds of the past, burdens to carry and wrongs to bear in the present, uncertainties and worries about the future.
In the face of all this, Jesuss first word is an invitation, a call to move and respond: Come.
The mistake, when things go wrong, is to stay where we are, lying there. It seems obvious, but how difficult it is to respond and open ourselves! It is not easy. In dark times it feels natural to keep to ourselves, to ruminate over how unfair life is, over how ungrateful others are, how mean the world is, and so on. We all know it. We have had this awful experience a few times. But in this way, locked up inside ourselves, we see everything as grim. Then we even grow accustomed to sadness, which becomes like home: that sadness overcomes us; this sadness is a terrible thing. Jesus, however, wants to pull us out of this quicksand and thus says to each one: Come!Who?You, you, you. The way out is in connecting, in extending a hand and lifting our gaze to those who truly love us.
ANGELUS,
JULY 9, 2017
The first step that God takes toward us is that of a love that anticipates and is unconditional. God is the first to love. God does not love because there is something in us that engenders love. God loves us because he himself is love, and, by its very nature, love tends to spread and give itself. God does not even condition his benevolence on our conversion. If anything, this is a consequence of Gods love.
GENERAL AUDIENCE,
JUNE 14, 2017
It is easy to say: God loves us. We all say it. But think a bit. Each one of us is able to ask: Am I sure that God loves me? It is not so easy to say it. But it is true. This is a good exercise, to say to oneself: God loves me. This is the root of our certainty, the root of hope. The Lord has abundantly poured into our hearts the Spiritwhich is the love of Godas artisan, as guarantor, precisely so that he may nourish the faith within us and keep this hope alive. This is a certainty: God loves me. But in this difficult moment?God loves me. I, who have done this bad and cruel thing?God loves me. No one can take this certainty away. We must repeat it as a prayer: God loves me. I am sure that God loves me. I am sure that God loves me.
GENERAL AUDIENCE,
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
We were created to love and to be loved. God, who is Love, created us to make us participants in his life, to be loved by him and to love him, and with him, to love all other people. This is Gods dream for mankind.
ANGELUS,
OCTOBER 29, 2017
What is it that draws God? It is love for us: we are his children, he loves us and wants to free us from evil, from sickness, from death, and to bring us to his home, to his Kingdom.
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