cor ad cor loquitur

As our departure date continues to creep up on us (only 5 weeks away. Eeek.) I decided it is about time to create a blog that I (will hopefully) be able to update throughout our journey in Kolkata this summer. My inspiration for the title of the blog, which in turn I am adopting for the motto for the summer comes from a very solid guy, St. Peter himself:

"Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly form the heart. You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God. 

That imperishable seed, of course, is the love of Jesus, through whom we have been purified and born anew through our baptism. This is the love that speaks to every human heart and beckons us to obedience to the truth, the truth of God's love and will in our lives.

Heart speaks to heart, cor ad cor loquitur - the Heart of God first speaks to our hearts, it is He who has initiated this romance and not us - as Saint John reminds us: "not that we have loved God, but that he has loved us and sent his son" - then we, in turn, speak that same truth in love to one another, "a sincere love of the brethren," as St. Peter writes, "loving one another earnestly from the heart."

Here's to a summer of taking the love that God has planted in my heart and bringing that love to those who I am going to meet in Calcutta and learning how to love one another earnestly from the heart.