South Sudan's Challenge

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Friday, December 26, 2014

True Love in Jesus Christ...


True Love in Jesus Christ..

The many odes written about true love...  Clergy, ulama and other guru try to define it... Yet, only those consumed by it truly understand what it is all about...!

Dante wrote in The Divine Comedy: ‘The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are  made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.’

Paolo Coelho wrote in The Zahir: ‘Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.’

‘This force is on earth to make us happy, to bring us closer to God and to our neighbour, and yet, given the way that we love now, we enjoy one hour of anxiety for every minute of peace.’

We profess that God is LOVE! And that LOVE is the one revealed by Jeus Christ – the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger; and and the man hanging on the Cross at Calvary!

A Blessed Christmas!

Fr. Jun Mercado, OMI

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