FAUSTI - Jesus has only one power : to give Himself completely,offering and exposing Himself to the point of death on the cross, waiting for this love to be corresponded. This is the power of God, diametrically opposed to that of Caesar. Disciple is one who recognises and believes in the love that God has for him through Jesus (1Jh 4,6). The Song of Solomon reveals our truth : we are the response to the proposal of God.
FAUSTI - "Listen, Israel!" Jesus recalls the "Shema" (Dt 6:4) to be recited in the morning and evening prayer. In fact, it is possible to love Him only to the extent that we know His Love for us, incredible for those who do not listen to the Word that reveals Him: "You will love the Lord your God" He created and saved us, showing Himself to be our only Lord and Lord. " From whole your heart, your life, your mind, your strength" If He hadn' commanded us, we would never have dared. A God who asks: "Listen, please! Love me, because I'm in love with you... I command you to love me, because you don't believe me..." Love either finds or makes you similar. His love for me has made him man, my love for Him makes me God. To love means to praise, to reverence, to serve. To praise, contrary to envy, is to rejoice in the good of the beloved; to reverence is to respect Him and to take Him into account for fear of losing Him; to serve is to make available to Him what one has, what one does and what one is. Let us learn what love is from the Lord Himself, who has rejoiced in our good more than in His, who has esteemed us more than Himself, and who has placed His Life at our service. This command makes us understand who He is, He is to be loved, because He is Love. If to love is the purpose for which we are created, our sin or failure is not to be able to do so. God accepts not to be loved, but not to be second. It would not be God. He is the only pole, on the basis of which I can choose every one of mine; he is the Absolute that I do not want to lose, the first and only one, my Lord. No one else desires except Him, who alone satisfies my hunger. He is the Lord of what I am and of what I do worth more than my life, which I put at His service, as He did with me. Love is intelligent: it loves to know in order to love more. Intelligence is like the eye of the heart. You cannot love what you do not see, just as you cannot but try to see who you love! All that I have, personal qualities and external means, is to use everything in order to love Him.Loving Him in this way, I fully realize myself, becoming similar to Him, who is all and only Love in and for me. The second is this: "You will love your neighbor as yourself" Love for man is not an alternative to love for God. It flows like water from the spring. That is why it is second. Not because it is secondary, but because all love comes and goes from a high place. Whoever places it as first exchanges the tap for the spring. And, if it detaches itself from the spring, it remains without water. Our neighbour is not to be loved in an absolute way, it would be to make him a God, while he is a man. He is loaded with a burden that he cannot bear, and he is destroyed. Usually you throw it away, with disappointment and hatred, when you realize that it is limited. The other must love him as myself, that is, as one who realizes himself by loving God. So I love him in truth only if I help him become himself, reaching the finality for which he was created, which is precisely that of loving God above all else. Every man is a free person precisely because he is in direct and unique relationship with God. For this reason, possessive love - direct and exclusive - enslaves and kills, while true love frees and gives life. "Another commandment is no greater than these". "Love is the full fulfillment of the law" (Rom 13:10). Every other command has its meaning in this, and is an expression of it. What does not come from love, and does not lead to it, is not the Will of God.
FAUSTI - Jesus has only one power : to give Himself completely,offering and exposing Himself to the point of death on the cross, waiting for this love to be corresponded. This is the power of God, diametrically opposed to that of Caesar.
RispondiEliminaDisciple is one who recognises and believes in the love that God has for him through Jesus (1Jh 4,6). The Song of Solomon reveals our truth : we are the response to the proposal of God.
FAUSTI - "Listen, Israel!" Jesus recalls the "Shema" (Dt 6:4) to be recited in the morning and evening prayer. In fact, it is possible to love Him only to the extent that we know His Love for us, incredible for those who do not listen to the Word that reveals Him: "You will love the Lord your God" He created and saved us, showing Himself to be our only Lord and Lord.
RispondiElimina" From whole your heart, your life, your mind, your strength"
If He hadn' commanded us, we would never have dared. A God who asks: "Listen, please! Love me, because I'm in love with you... I command you to love me, because you don't believe me..." Love either finds or makes you similar. His love for me has made him man, my love for Him makes me God. To love means to praise, to reverence, to serve.
To praise, contrary to envy, is to rejoice in the good of the beloved; to reverence is to respect Him and to take Him into account for fear of losing Him; to serve is to make available to Him what one has, what one does and what one is.
Let us learn what love is from the Lord Himself, who has rejoiced in our good more than in His, who has esteemed us more than Himself, and who has placed His Life at our service.
This command makes us understand who He is, He is to be loved, because He is Love.
If to love is the purpose for which we are created, our sin or failure is not to be able to do so.
God accepts not to be loved, but not to be second. It would not be God.
He is the only pole, on the basis of which I can choose every one of mine; he is the Absolute that I do not want to lose, the first and only one, my Lord.
No one else desires except Him, who alone satisfies my hunger.
He is the Lord of what I am and of what I do worth more than my life, which I put at His service, as He did with me.
Love is intelligent: it loves to know in order to love more. Intelligence is like the eye of the heart.
You cannot love what you do not see, just as you cannot but try to see who you love!
All that I have, personal qualities and external means, is to use everything in order to love Him.Loving Him in this way, I fully realize myself, becoming similar to Him, who is all and only Love in and for me.
The second is this: "You will love your neighbor as yourself" Love for man is not an alternative to love for God. It flows like water from the spring.
That is why it is second. Not because it is secondary, but because all love comes and goes from a high place.
Whoever places it as first exchanges the tap for the spring. And, if it detaches itself from the spring, it remains without water.
Our neighbour is not to be loved in an absolute way, it would be to make him a God, while he is a man.
He is loaded with a burden that he cannot bear, and he is destroyed. Usually you throw it away, with disappointment and hatred, when you realize that it is limited.
The other must love him as myself, that is, as one who realizes himself by loving God.
So I love him in truth only if I help him become himself, reaching the finality for which he was created, which is precisely that of loving God above all else.
Every man is a free person precisely because he is in direct and unique relationship with God.
For this reason, possessive love - direct and exclusive - enslaves and kills, while true love frees and gives life.
"Another commandment is no greater than these". "Love is the full fulfillment of the law" (Rom 13:10). Every other command has its meaning in this, and is an expression of it.
What does not come from love, and does not lead to it, is not the Will of God.