Saturday, March 7, 2009

The way of love is the path to perfection

"Love of neighbour springs from a loving heart which, precisely because it loves, is ready to live out the loftiest challenges. Jesus shows that the commandments must not be understood as a minimum limit not to be gone beyond, but rather as a path involving a moral and spiritual journey towards perfection, at the heart of which is love (cf. Col> 3:14)" (Veritatis Splendor par. 15).

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