The Primacy of Love ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Primacy of Love ~ The Imaginative Conservative

It may sound fine to proclaim a new age in which the primacy of love was to be paramount, as it was in the beginning. But it must not be forgotten that the love Francis was talking about was God’s love, the love that can change all things including us. It was thanks to St Bernard and supremely to St Francis that the profound mystical spirituality of the early Church was, at least for those with eyes to see, reborn again in thirteenth-century Eur…