LOVE OF CHRIST IN AGE OF INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY

Pope Says Humanity Needs To Discover Christ's Heart

VATICAN CITY, JULY 2 (ZENIT.org).- The Heart of Jesus is the compass of love for man, who runs the risk of losing the center of his own life, John Paul II said at noon today under a burning sun, during his traditional Angelus message to pilgrims congregated in St. Peter's in the Vatican.

"In a society, where technology and information science develop at a growing pace, where we are prey to a thousand often conflicting interests, we risk losing our center, the center of ourselves," the Pontiff said.

This is why Christ shows us his Heart, which began to beat 2000 years ago "in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary," to remind us "that he is there, in the interior of the person, where the destiny of each one is decided, death or life in the ultimate sense. He himself gives us life in abundance, he who makes it possible for our hearts, until now hardened by indifference and egotism, to open to a higher form of life." This is the message of His Heart "to today's world," the Holy Father added.

The love of Christ enables us to understand better the dramas of the contemporary world. "How much blood has been spilled unjustly in the world! How much violence, how much contempt for human life! This humanity so often wounded by hatred and violence, has need more than ever before to experience the efficacy of the redeeming Blood of Christ."

If it is not to be shed in vain, this Blood "carries in itself all the power of the love of God and is a pledge of hope, rescue, reconciliation. But to reach this source, it is necessary to turn to the Cross of Christ, to look upon the Son of God, on that pierced Heart, on that spilled Blood."

As usual, the Pope concluded by addressing Mary: Let us entrust to her "the blood of the victims of violence, so that it will be rescued by the Blood that Jesus poured out for the salvation of the world."

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