Msgr. Pope is usually very good. I think he’s using filler here.
Every one of us has to be aware of the possibility of turning cold and didactic toward our neighbor. Being warm, making that person, no matter what his life is or has been, the one focus of our love, is extremely hard and can only be done when filled with the Holy Spirit.
I did like the one about the lentils, though. The modern world, viewed through a bowl of lentils. That really is a metaphor.