Pope Francis will publish the fourth encyclical of his pontificate on Thursday on “the human and divine love of the heart of Jesus Christ”. Source: CNA.
The encyclical is titled Dilexit Nos, meaning “he has loved us”.
The Pope announced in June that he was preparing a document on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, noting that meditating on the Lord’s love can “illuminate the path of ecclesial renewal and say something meaningful to a world that seems to have lost its heart”.
Pope Francis then described the document as something that “brings together the precious reflections of previous magisterial texts and a long history that goes back to the sacred Scriptures in order to re-propose today to the whole Church this devotion imbued with spiritual beauty.”
“I believe it will do us great good to meditate on various aspects of the Lord’s love, which can illuminate the path of ecclesial renewal and say something meaningful to a world that seems to have lost its heart,” Francis said at the end of his general audience on June 5.
The encyclical is being published amid the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St Margaret Mary Alacoque, which began on December 27, 2023, and will conclude on June 27, 2025.
Dilexit Nos will be Pope Francis’ fourth encyclical after Fratelli Tutti, published in 2020, Laudato Si’ published in 2015, and Lumen Fidei, published in 2013.
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