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The Evangelical Pope | Love Comes from God

April 28, 2025

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, April 27, 2025

The Evangelical Pope | Love Comes from God

Each week we let Saint Pope John Paul II share meaningful signposts to spark socio-economic resolves through justice and righteousness combined with mercy and compassion; in short, love.

“⁷Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”

__ 1 John 4:7

Sankt Pölten, Austria – 20 June 1998 | Many of our contemporaries no longer recognize God as Father, leaving them unaware of the language of faith.

Let’s endeavor to teach them the basics of faith.

Commitment, service, and charity are essential components of this universal vocabulary.

With these, we can construct a “grammar of life” that enables individuals to articulate God’s intentions for them through the Holy Spirit.

Put your teachings into action through your words.

Show that joy is also a fruit of the Spirit. As we near the third millennium, it’s crucial to reignite this awareness: just as God has a plan for each person, He possesses a mission too.

You are not just keepers of a historical legacy but trailblazers for the future that the Holy Spirit is leading the Church towards!

Excerpted from:

APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II TO AUSTRIA (JUNE 19-21, 1998)
EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION
HOMILY OF POPE JOHN PAUL II
Sankt Pölten, Saturday, 20 June 1998

https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1998/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19980620_st-polten.html