The height of love

Preparing for next week, I was led by events of last month and sharing from loved ones to this message of Pope Francis to his brother-bishops of Brazil.  Speaking about what we, as church, tend to feel about those who have left or find us irrelevant, he used the Emmaus story as a guide...

Many people have left [the Church] because they were promised something more lofty...  But what is more lofty than the love revealed in Jerusalem?  Nothing is more lofty than the abasement of the Cross, since there we truly approach the height of love!  Are we still capable of demonstrating this truth to those who think that the apex of life is to be found elsewhere?

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