spiritual DNA

“spiritual DNA”. They remind us of who we are, what we are made for, what we aspire to.

The core of our “spiritual DNA” is the commandment to love one another, but with a love whose measure we can only grasp by looking at Christ.

We have to realize that the overriding source of our joy, the reason for our happiness, is God’s love for us, which is not just any love. “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.” That is, Christ loves us. What He says to the apostles is meant for all of us, and that is why He wanted it to be in the Gospel. Our Lord loves us with the same love—nothing less—as that with which God the Father loves Christ.

"He loves me and gave Himself up for me".

We were like a seed incapable of opening itself, incapable of dying in order to give way to the shoot that will never cease growing and strengthening, with a life that will always remain. Only in Christ can we learn what it means to love and to love one another, because in him we have received a light that has illumined us and opened us to others. All Christians are called to be ambassadors of that first love, of Christ’s love, for those around them, establishing God’s Kingdom in their hearts