Pope Benedict XVI - “’The Priesthood is the Love of the Heart of Jesus’ the Saintly Curé of Ars would often say.”
Jesus in Luisa Piccarreta's Book of Heaven
V29 – 3.30.31 – “Oh! how intolerable to Me is the hardness of the human heart; much more so before Mine, which is all loving tenderness and goodness toward them. A hard heart is capable of all evils and reaches such extent as to make a mockery of the pains of others, and it changes the tendernesses of My Heart toward it into sorrows and deep wounds.
The most Beautiful Prerogative of My Heart is Tenderness; all the Fibers, the Affections, the Desires, the Love, the Heartbeats of My Heart have Tenderness as their Origin. So, My Fibers are Tender, My Affections and Desires are most Tender, My Love and Heartbeats are so Tender as to reach the point of Melting My Heart out of Tenderness; and this Tender Love makes Me arrive at Loving the creatures so much, that I AM content with suffering Myself rather than seeing them suffer.
A love, when it is not Tender, is like a food without condiment, like a beauty that is aged, incapable of attracting anyone to make itself loved; it is like a flower without fragrance, like a dry fruit without humor and sweetness. A love that is hard, without tenderness, is unacceptable and would have no virtue of making itself loved by anyone. Therefore, My Heart suffers so much in seeing the hardness of creatures, that they reach the point of changing My Graces into scourges.”
