Episode 61

Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 9 - The world can change, beginning with the Heart

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April 11th, 2025

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Pope Francis speaks about the radical remaking of the world, which is only possible when the transformational power of God's love is fully embraced and lived in the relationship between Christ and His Disciples. In the presence of the heart of Christ,Francis asks the Lord to have mercy on this suffering world in which he chose to dwell as one of us, so that our world, which presses forward despite wars, socio-economic disparities and uses of technology that threaten our humanity, may regain the most important and necessary thing of all: its heart.

Each session of Dilexit Nos in a Year begins by breaking open the scriptures and topics covered in order to outline the themes of Pope Francis, and frame our conversations for the weekly discussion for the year ahead. For the next 50 weeks, we will work through four to five paragraphs reading of the text of Dilexit Nos, with opening prayer, and short reflection based upon the paragraphs covered and the prayerful discussions of the questions to ponder together as we reflect on the work of spiritual and communal formation and mission in this Jubilee Year of Hope.

Dilexit Nos - Chapter 1, Paragraphs 28-31 THE WORLD CAN CHANGE, BEGINNING WITH THE HEART

Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 82; 10; 14. 26

DICASTERY FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration Dignitas Infinita (2 April 2024).

SAINT JOHN PAUL II, Angelus, 28 June 1998

Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ (24 May 2015), 83: AAS 107 (2015), 880.

Prayer

Love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, embrace my heart.
Fire of the Heart of Jesus, inflame my heart.
Charity of the Heart of Jesus, fill my heart.
Strength of the Heart of Jesus, sustain my heart.
Mercy of the Heart of Jesus, pardon my heart.
Patience of the Heart of Jesus, do not forsake my heart.
Reign of the Heart of Jesus, establish Yourself in my heart.
Wisdom of the Heart of Jesus, teach my heart.
Will of the Heart of Jesus, guide my heart.
Zeal of the Heart of Jesus consume my heart.
Jesus, make our hearts more like your own.

1 John 4:7-21

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