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Vespers in the Archabbey Church on October 12, 2025
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Vespers in the Archabbey Church on October 10, 2025 Saint Meinrad Archabbey
ORDO WEEK 27 THURSDAY MORNING PRAISE
Apostolic Exhortation: Dilexi Te Pope Leo 1. “I HAVE LOVED YOU” (Rev 3:9). The Lord speaks these words to a Christian community that, unlike some others, had no influence or resources, and was treated instead with violence and contempt: 2. This declaration of love, taken from the Book of Revelation, reflects the inexhaustible mystery that Pope Francis reflected upon in the Encyclical Dilexit Nos on the human and divine love of the heart of Jesus Christ 3. For this reason, in continuity with the Encyclical Dilexit Nos, Pope Francis was preparing in the last months of his life an Apostolic Exhortation on the Church’s care for the poor, to which he gave the title Dilexi Te, as if Christ speaks those words to each of them, saying: “You have but little power,” yet “I have loved you” ( Rev 3:9). I am happy to make this document my own — adding some reflections — CHAPTER ONE A FEW ESSENTIAL WORDS 4. Jesus’ disciples criticized the woman who poured costly perfumed oil on his head. They s...
