C'est La Confiance - Apostolic Exhortation On Confidence in the Merciful Love Of God

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https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231015-santateresa-delbambinogesu.html

This Apostolic Exhortation comes as we approach the end of the 150th year of the Birth and the 100th year since her Beatification (1873 & 1923 respectively.) Pope Francis issues this Exhortation to remind the faithful of her unshakeable confidence in the Love of Jesus through her own dark times. Additionally, he wants to highlight her as the "Doctor of Synthesis" developing the theme of synthesis from her journal "A Story of a Soul".

The primary synthesis Pope Francis wants to unfold is one of her deep piety and her desire to help souls. Even though she was a monastic, her prayer and spirituality were centered on freeing others from sin and attaining union with God. One example is that of her prayers and confidence in God's Love for a notorious murder who ultimately embraced Jesus on the gallows prior to his execution.

To open up this synthesis, Pope Francis offers in paragraph 43 the following quote of her Story of a Soul: “My heaven will be spent on earth until the end of the world. Yes, I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth.” Not only was her prayer on earth focused on the care and aide of souls, but she desire her heave, her eternal bliss to be in the service of God on earth. This is her synthesis: the union of heaven and contemplation and action bound in the service of saving souls.

00:00 Opening, History, Reason for this Exhortation
05:47 I. Jesus for Others
10:50 II. The Little Way of Trust and Love
22:42 III. I Will Be Love
36:39 IV. At the Heart of the Gospel

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