“The symbol of the heart has often been used to express the love of Jesus Christ. Some have questioned whether this symbol is still meaningful today. Yet living as we do in an age of superficiality, rushing frenetically from one thing to another without really knowing why, and ending up as insatiable consumers and slaves to the mechanisms of a market unconcerned about the deeper meaning of our lives, all of us need to rediscover the importance of the heart.”
- Paragraph 2 of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter ‘Dilexit Nos’ (On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus), given in Rome, 24th October 2024.