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Information reaching the office of RECOWACERAO NEWS AGENCY, RECONA, in her head office in Abidjan, the capital of Cote D’Ivoire, indicates that the Holy Father Pope Francis is poised to release a New Encyclical Letter, “Dilexit Nos,” on the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Our Correspondent who was there at the time of the announcement reported that Pope Francis will publish the fourth encyclical of his pontificate on Thursday on “the human and divine love of the heart of Jesus Christ.” The encyclical, titled Dilexit Nos, meaning “he has loved us,” will be published on October 24.

In June, The pope announced that he was preparing a document on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, noting that meditating on the Lord’s love can “illuminate the path of ecclesial renewal and say something meaningful to a world that seems to have lost its heart.”

Pope Francis then described the document as something that “brings together the precious reflections of previous magisterial texts and a long history that goes back to the sacred Scriptures to re-propose today to the whole Church this devotion imbued with spiritual beauty.

“I believe it will do us great good to meditate on various aspects of the Lord’s love, which can illuminate the path of ecclesial renewal and say something meaningful to a world that seems to have lost its heart,” Francis said at the end of his general audience on June 5.

The encyclical is being published amid the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, which began on Dec. 27, 2023, and will conclude on June 27, 2025.

The Vatican will hold a live-streamed press conference on Thursday, October 24, on the encyclical Dilexit Nos: Encyclical Letter on the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ.

Archbishop Bruno Forte, an Italian theologian and a new member of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, will present the encyclical to the press together with Sister Antonella Fraaccaro, the head of the Italian religious order Discepole del Vangelo (“Disciples of the Gospel”).

Dilexit Nos will be Pope Francis’ fourth encyclical after Fratelli Tutti, published in 2020, Laudato Si’ published in 2015, and Lumen Fidei, published in 2013.

Rev. Fr. George Nwachukwu
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