Excerpt from the Pope
Posted by: Jennifer Martinez on: Wednesday, 4 February 2009
An excerpt from a recent homily by Pope Benedict XVI:
The divine and universal law of creation is divine love, incarnate in Christ. However, this should not be understood in a poetic but in a real sense. Moreover, this is what Dante himself meant when, in the sublime verse that concludes the Paradiso and the entire Divina Commedia, he describes God as “the Love which moves the sun and the other stars”. This means that the stars, planets and the whole universe are not governed by a blind force, they do not obey the dynamics of matter alone. Therefore, it is not the cosmic elements that should be divinized. Indeed, on the contrary, within everything and at the same time above everything there is a personal will, the Spirit of God, who in Christ has revealed himself as Love.
Today we remember that Christ is the Supreme Lord over all. Even before the powers of evil and the vastness of the cosmos, we have nothing to fear, for Love is truly Lord over heaven and earth.
The divine and universal law of creation is divine love, incarnate in Christ. However, this should not be understood in a poetic but in a real sense. Moreover, this is what Dante himself meant when, in the sublime verse that concludes the Paradiso and the entire Divina Commedia, he describes God as “the Love which moves the sun and the other stars”. This means that the stars, planets and the whole universe are not governed by a blind force, they do not obey the dynamics of matter alone. Therefore, it is not the cosmic elements that should be divinized. Indeed, on the contrary, within everything and at the same time above everything there is a personal will, the Spirit of God, who in Christ has revealed himself as Love.
Today we remember that Christ is the Supreme Lord over all. Even before the powers of evil and the vastness of the cosmos, we have nothing to fear, for Love is truly Lord over heaven and earth.
By Mr. Vincent Strand, S.J.
Magis Institute
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