{"id":87823,"date":"2026-10-26T08:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87823"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:08:52","slug":"pontiff-love-is-center-of-relationship-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pontiff-love-is-center-of-relationship-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontiff: Love Is Center Of Relationship With God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Catholic Culture:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV told pilgrims gathered in St. Peter\u2019s Square for his Sunday<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/events\/event.dir.html\/content\/vaticanevents\/en\/2026\/10\/25\/angelus.html\">Angelus address<\/a> (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NhsPIwsGXf4\">video<\/a>) that Christ \u201cplaces love at the very center of our relationship with God.\u201d\u00a0\u201cIndeed, it is not enough to know that God exists, that he is the only God, or that he is the Almighty,\u201d Pope Leo said on October 25, as he reflected on Matthew 22:34-40, the Gospel reading of the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/culture\/liturgicalyear\/calendar\/day.cfm?date=2026-10-25\">day<\/a>. \u201cTh<\/span>e Lord seeks a personal relationship with us: the one true God wants to become <i>our<\/i> God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to our close relationship with God, we are able to look at ourselves and our neighbors through the eyes of Christ, from his perspective,\u201d the Pope continued. \u201cIn this way, selfishness is overcome and even love for oneself becomes charity: our existence turns toward the other and becomes a gift for those around us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Catholic Culture: Pope Leo XIV told pilgrims gathered in St. Peter\u2019s Square for his Sunday Angelus address (video) that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}