Rome, Italy, Jan 14, 2010 / 17:47 pm
Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, the secretary of the Congregation for Clergy, gave a retreat address Thursday afternoon at the papal summer villa to members of the Focolare movement. He dedicated the talk to "ars amoris," the art of love, as lived in the life of Focolare founder Chiara Lubich and exemplified in that of St. Jean-Marie Vianney of Ars.
Archbishop Piacenza directed his words to an audience of priests and deacons of the Focolare Movement on a spiritual retreat to the Mariapoli Center at Castel Gandolfo.
He began by saying that "the love that comes from Ars is none other than the transparency and the visibility of the same divine Love in a man who let himself be entirely penetrated and molded by that love."
It's the "love poured out in our hearts," said the archbishop, that which becomes "the capacity to know how to love always and anyway, in every circumstance, every person" regardless of background.