id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-vatican-va-6736 Benedictus XVI Deus caritas est (December 25, 2005) | BENEDICT XVI 2005-12-25 .html text/html 16150 831 69 Let us first of all bring to mind the vast semantic range of the word "love": we speak of love of country, love of one's profession, love between friends, love of work, love between parents and children, love between family members, love of neighbour and love of God. Amid this multiplicity of meanings, however, one in particular stands out: love between man and woman, where body and soul are inseparably joined and human beings glimpse an apparently irresistible promise of happiness. The Spirit is also the energy which transforms the heart of the ecclesial community, so that it becomes a witness before the world to the love of the Father, who wishes to make humanity a single family in his Son. The entire activity of the Church is an expression of a love that seeks the integral good of man: it seeks his evangelization through Word and Sacrament, an undertaking that is often heroic in the way it is acted out in history; and it seeks to promote man in the various arenas of life and human activity. ./cache/www-vatican-va-6736.html ./txt/www-vatican-va-6736.txt