One who loves, on rescuing another concretely, teaches also, by the fact, to love, says Father Pietro Bovati, who from Sunday, March 1 to Friday morning March 6, is preaching the Lenten Retreat to the Pope — who is following it from the Vatican — and to his collaborators of the Roman Curia. Said in other words, a work of corporal mercy is also a work of spiritual mercy.
This was the seventh meditation, on Wednesday afternoon, March 4, the second of the day, dedicated to the “way in the desert” (Exodus 15.22:16.8; Matthew 25:31-46; Psalm 23), a synthesis of which Vatican Radio published in Italian.
The Vatican published the themes of the 10 meditations on the general theme of the Burning Bush: ‘The bush was burning due to a flame of fire’ (Exodus 3:2). The meeting between God and man, in the light of the Book of Exodus, of the Gospel of Matthew and of the prayer of the Psalms.”