The pope evokes all the feelings of our core memories in today’s passage on Delexit nos (17-23).

The Church calls us to do the impossible! Midst a world of war, be people of peace. Midst an artificial intelligent worldview, make core memories. Paragraph 20 struck me to the importance of returning to the heart:

In this age of artificial intelligence, we cannot forget that poetry and love are necessary to save our humanity. No algorithm will ever be able to capture, for example, the nostalgia that all of us feel, whatever our age, and wherever we live, when we recall how we first used a fork to seal the edges of the pies that we helped our mothers or grandmothers to make at home.

The pursuit of core memories is up to us. We must be attuned to our humanity, less everything be data driven and there are not memories left to treasure. Artificial intelligence can’t teach us to love for that is the duty of the heart.

Everything finds its unity in the heart, which can be the dwelling-place of love in all its spiritual, psychic and even physical dimensions (21).

We are called to do the impossible. To love. We are called to recognize that we are all part of the human family and wars must cease. We must be agents of peace. The Holy Father emphasizes the impact of war on elder women. They lose their grandchildren on both sides and “at the end of their days, are experiencing, in place of a well-earned rest, only anguish, fear and outrage” (22).

Do the impossible. Be agents of peace. Ask the great question, “Do I have a heart?” With the heart there is harmony and coherence.

Here is a rendition of that great prayer for peace: