Media > Pope: Choose to love God and neighbor

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Description: "The fundamental choice, which gives meaning and value to all other choices, is to love God, and for love of Him, to love our neighbor." The Holy Father said this during the general audience catechesis this morning, which was dedicated to the twelfth century monastic theologian William of St. Thierry. "Only in this love do we find true joy", Pope Benedict added, "placing us in the school of the Saints in order to learn to love authentically and completely."Citing the works of William, the Pope said that love is the main energy that moves man whose only true work is to "learn to love, to love, sincerely, authentically, and freely. But this is only possible in the school of God. For Pope Benedict, along ... Less

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