Teach Me to Let Myself Be Loved By You

He comes close
and gives us His love with tenderness.Closeness and tenderness!The Lord loves us in these two ways,He draws near and gives all His loveeven in the smallest things:with tenderness.And this is a powerful love,because closeness and tendernessreveal the strength of God’s love.

It is more difficult to let God love us
than to love Him!The best way to love Him in returnis to open our hearts and let Him love us.Let Him draw close to usand feel Him close to us.This is really very difficult:letting ourselves be loved by Him.And that is perhaps what we need to asktoday in the Mass:
"Lord, I want to love You, but teach me the difficult science, the difficult habit of letting myself be loved by You, to feel You close and feel Your tenderness!"
May the Lord give us this grace.
Pope Francis,Homily for Feast of the Sacred Heart

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