Messages that lovers will exchange this weekend will express the depth of their devotion. The words we use to describe God’s love must also come straight from the heart
Valentine greetings such as Ogden Nash’s verse will criss-cross our planet this weekend as lovers compete for new expressions of their love: I swear to you by the stars above,And below, if such there be,As the High Court loathes perjurious oathes,That’s how you’re loved by me.Little did the third-century saint realise what he was starting when he signed himself off with “from your Valentine” in a note to a girl he had cured of blindness!When we experience love we reach for a new language. When we sense a transformation within us we search for new ways of expression. Pope Francis repeate
12 February 2015, The Tablet
Language of love
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