Amid the on-going technological revolution and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, we must remember that there is another revolution — one far more profound: the revolution of the heart, the revolution of love.
The revolution of love takes place in the heart — that sacred place where the true encounter with our neighbor occurs, the true encounter with the one who is love. It is there, in the depths of the soul, that authentic communication between human hearts is born.
God himself began this revolution when he sent us his only son, who became one of us in all things but sin. Christmas is the celebration of the mystery of the incarnation and birth of his son — Jesus made man.
By coming into the world, Jesus showed us the way to relate to one another. He revealed to us that friendship springs from love. As Pope Leo XIV reminded the youth gathered in Rome this past summer, “Friendship is the path to peace.” Friendship with God is precisely the revolution that his closeness brings about. Behold, the revolution of love.
It is true that technological advances have made our lives easier in many ways. With the help of AI, it is now possible for people who speak different languages to communicate via simultaneous translation. We can even generate homilies (although this does not leave room for the Holy Spirit). All of this is extraordinary!
Yet, technological progress is meaningless unless placed at the service of humanity. We can only use technology correctly when it serves the human person. When technology ceases to do so, it ends up enslaving and diminishing human dignity.
The spiritual dryness in the world today is the result of the emptiness within the hearts closed to Jesus.
As we celebrate Christmas, let us not see it merely as a past event, but as a living moment in the present, in which God reestablishes the true form of communication within our own history.
Many times, we fail to understand one another even though we speak the same language — because its essence, love, is missing. God has become our neighbor to teach us that friendship is forged through love. He reveals to us that it is the love with which he loves us that is the source of our relationship with God and with our brothers and sisters. He makes himself small; he makes himself visible. He draws near and seeks our faces to awaken in our hearts friendship with him.
It bears repeating: the true language of love is friendship with God.
And the family is the school of love.
God did not send his son into a void. Rather, he chose to send him into a family, showing us the sacredness and value of family life. Family is the first place where one learns the language of the heart, love.
Therefore, we cannot accept a culture dominated by AI that weakens and divides families, destroys true communication among people, and ices human hearts.
To celebrate Christmas means to gather as family and open our hearts so that the essence of love permeates our conversations and experiences. My wish is that as we gather with our families, this Christmas may be an opportunity for letting our hearts be enriched by conversations, by listening, by acts of service and tenderness—concrete expressions of the language of love.
Let’s leave behind the culture of indifference and loneliness. Instead, let us encounter Jesus and his holy family, so that we too may live true unity and love within our families.
AI can never replace the relationships of the heart! For the human heart finds its truth and purpose – not in information- but in the encounter with God, in a relationship of love. Only Jesus can fill that deep longing within us. He, who was born into a family, teaches us that it is precisely there, in family life, that we learn the language of love – the language of closeness, the language of life.
In this season of Christmas and New Year, let us open our hearts to Jesus so that he may transform them into Bethlehem — a home where, together with Mary and Joseph, he can dwell. Then, with our hearts thus transformed, we will be ready — as people and as Church — to welcome all who seek love, who seek Jesus.
We must become another Bethlehem to be the transforming force of love!
Let us remember that salvation comes not from the quantum technology of human invention but from our faith in Jesus — God made man — who came to teach us the language of the heart, the language of love.
Only then can we remain in his revolution of love, for it is only love that truly evangelizes.