Chapter, Paragraph
1 1,2 | looks with the greatest love towards all her sons and
2 1,2 | Redemption precisely as a word of love, spoken by the Church for
3 2,3 | loved him." This is the love of the Redeemer: a love
4 2,3 | love of the Redeemer: a love that flows from all the
5 2,3 | of the Redemption. This love reflects the eternal love
6 2,3 | love reflects the eternal love of the Father, who "so loved
7 2,3 | Son, invested with that love, accepted the mission from
8 2,3 | the world. The Father's love was revealed in the Son
9 2,3 | in the Son as redeeming love. It is precisely this love
10 2,3 | love. It is precisely this love that constitutes the true
11 2,3 | interior encounter with the love of Christ, which is a redeeming
12 2,3 | Christ, which is a redeeming love. Christ calls precisely
13 2,3 | calls precisely through this love of His. In the structure
14 2,3 | the encounter with this love becomes something specifically
15 2,3 | religious, that redeeming love of His was directed towards
16 2,3 | spousal character: it became a love of choice. This love embraces
17 2,3 | became a love of choice. This love embraces the whole person,
18 2,3 | price."(11) ~Yes, Christ's love has reached each one of
19 2,3 | measurelessness of His redeeming love. Since He calls "by name,"
20 2,4 | beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and
21 2,6 | upon" His questioner "with love," the strong leaven of the
22 2,6 | of the world. "In this is love, not that we loved God but
23 3,7 | choice; new, because of love and vocation; new, by reason
24 3,8 | A Covenant of Spousal Love ~8. Thus, then, dear brothers
25 3,8 | to the call of redeeming love, and it is also an answer
26 3,8 | it is also an answer of love: a love of self-giving,
27 3,8 | also an answer of love: a love of self-giving, which is
28 3,8 | seem to seal precisely this love, which is the love of a
29 3,8 | this love, which is the love of a total and exclusive
30 3,8 | special covenant of spousal love is made, in which we seem
31 3,8 | nevertheless, through self-giving love, through the offering of
32 3,8 | of spousal and redemptive love: spousal because it is redemptive.
33 3,8 | because it is redemptive. For love He offered Himself, for
34 3,8 | He offered Himself, for love He gave His body "for the
35 3,8 | you desire, through the love of total giving, to fill
36 3,8 | way the likeness of that love which in the heart of Christ
37 3,8 | religious profession. And such love should fill each of you,
38 3,8 | creation.~Together with this love, may there grow deeper in
39 4,9 | place in step with that love which Christ's call infuses
40 4,9 | depth of the individual-that love which constitutes the very
41 4,9 | letter of St. John: "Do not love the world or the things
42 4,9 | any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in
43 4,9 | brothers and sisters, the love of the Father: that love
44 4,9 | love of the Father: that love which is in the heart of
45 4,9 | Redeemer of the world. It is love which embraces the world
46 5,11| a particular way to the love of the human heart. It places
47 5,11| spousal character of this love, while poverty and still
48 5,11| the aspect of redemptive love contained in religious consecration.
49 5,11| an expression of spousal love for the Redeemer Himself.
50 5,11| constitutes the spousal love of Christ Himself, of Jesus
51 5,11| beatific vision and the love which contains in itself
52 6 | VI ~LOVE FOR THE CHURCH ~
53 6,14| Church wishes to renew her love for Christ, the Redeemer
54 6,14| Church wishes also your love for Christ to be renewed
55 6,14| is fully aware that this love constitutes a special possession
56 6,14| Church is aware that in the love that Christ receives from
57 6,14| consecrated persons, the love of the entire Body is directed
58 6,14| are a special witness of love. She also expresses anew
59 6,14| you, that your witness of love may never fail,(87) and
60 6,14| Philippians, "that your love may abound more and more...
61 6,14| Christ's Redemption "God's love has been poured out into
62 6,14| special witness to this love. May "the law of the Spirit
63 6,14| that is opposed to true love of God and others. The world
64 6,14| encourage you to know them, to love them and, above all, to
65 6,14| unambiguous manifestation of love.~It is precisely this witness
66 6,14| precisely this witness of love that the world today and
67 6,15| this witness of spousal love for Christ, through which
68 6,15| exercise, their spousal love for Christ becomes, in an
69 6,15| organic way as it were, love for the Church as the Body
70 6,15| consecrated persons fulfill their love for the Church through the
71 6,15| is the witness of mutual love, linked to the fraternal
72 6,15| my disciples, if you have love for one another."(98) ~The
73 6,15| and he adds that "love is the fulfilling of the
74 6,15| inexhaustible source of your love for the Church pour forth! ~
75 7,16| be an expression of that love which the Church has for
76 7,16| through the witness of that love whereby "God abides in us
77 7,16| God abides in us and his love is perfected in us."(106)
78 7,16| The Church, in her love for you, does not cease "
79 7,16| being rooted and grounded in love, may have the power to comprehend
80 7,16| and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses
81 7,17| perfect way. Her spousal love reached its height in the
82 7,17| heaven through most chaste love.~If the entire Church finds
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