Everything and everyone needs a ‘centre’. A building, a piece of music, a painting is not simply the sum total of different parts: metal bars & bricks; notes & rhythms; colours & brush strokes. We need a ‘centre’ to give unity and provide a sort of ‘backdrop’ of meaning and direction. To ‘lose’ the centre is to lose it all, it means to lose the truth about something, to lose the inner principle which creates harmony. What we are left with is confusion, disorientation, fragmentation, disorder and lies.
All of this is also true about love. Love too has a ‘centre’: it is the heart of Jesus, man and God. His open heart on the cross made it possible for us to ‘see’ inside the deepest part of man and of God, to ‘enter’ inside the spring of love, its ‘secret’. What’s in there? What is this secret? He loved us!
Dilexit Nos, “He loved us”, is the title of the Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis, his fourth one, on the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus, released last Thursday, October 24th. A very profound text, truly beautiful, but also a warning: we are losing the ‘heart’, losing ourselves, the ‘point’ of our life, the real ‘meaning’ of our actions, our ‘mission’. We need to find back the heart we have lost. But how? we need a pointer, an arrow, a cursor. It is the lance which pierced Christ’s heart. Our sins make it possible for us to encounter the heart of God and so to find back what we have lost: He has loved me and you!
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