Rome, 17 December (LaPresse) – ‘The true treasure is kept in the heart, not in the safes of the earth, not in large financial investments, which today more than ever are crazy and unjustly concentrated, idolised at the bloody price of millions of human lives and the devastation of God's creation.’ Pope Leo XIV said this during the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square. It is important to reflect on these aspects because, in the numerous commitments we continually face, the risk of dispersion, sometimes of despair, of meaninglessness, even in apparently successful people, is increasingly apparent. Instead, reading life in the light of Easter, looking at it with the Risen Jesus, means finding access to the essence of the human person, to our heart: cor inquietum. With this adjective “restless”, St Augustine helps us understand the human being's yearning for fulfilment. The full sentence refers to the beginning of the Confessions, where Augustine writes: “Lord, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you,” the Pope concluded.
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