NEW YORK – With the encyclical Dilexit nosThe head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops says Pope Francis has offered a “simple and powerful” solution to many of the problems plaguing modern society.

“The ills of modern society can read like a litany of incurable diseases: consumerism, secularism, partisanship. Today, Pope Francis offers a simple and powerful remedy: the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” Archbishop Timothy Broglio said in an Oct. 24 statement. “In his latest encyclical Dilexit nosthe Holy Father teaches us that devotion to the heart of Jesus can open our own hearts to renewed ways in which we can love and be loved.”

“We need this timely counsel,” said Broglio, head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, US.

Pope Francis published Dilexit nos (“He Loved Us”), on October 24. The 28,000-word encyclical, the pope’s fourth, focuses on the human and divine love of Jesus Christ, underscoring the social dimension of Christ’s love and care for others as an extension of a personal life. , intimate love relationship with God.

Devotion to the heart of Jesus, Broglio said, creates an encounter with the living heart of Jesus, and has the power to “bring us together as children of God.”

“Pope Francis writes: ‘Love is ultimately the only reality that can unite.’ This is why he says: “We must all rediscover the importance of the heart,” Broglio said, adding that the Holy Father’s message confirms a message of the National Eucharistic Revival that “in the Eucharist we experience the immense love discover from the heart’. the heart of Christ.’”

Broglio also invites Catholics to join in prayer with the new encyclical.

“As he writes, ‘Jesus is waiting for you now to give Him the opportunity to bring light into your life,’” Broglio said. ‘Then share that light in the service of others. ‘Speak of Christ, by witness or by word, in such a way that others seek to love Him,’ Pope Francis encourages us.”

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