There is no Christianity without love and forgiveness! There is no true Christian love that does not include mercy and forgiveness. In the gospel parable of the so called ‘Prodigal Son’, Jesus reveals the nature of God as unconditional love and compassion. And this revelation is what he incarnated in his life, death, and resurrection…He continues to incarnate this love now, within our hearts as they are converted, meaning changed, to being opened wider than wide!
On Thursday for our Morning Prayer we had a reading from Leviticus 19, verses: 1-2, 17-18, 33-34. This reading was chosen by the editors of Give Us This Dayas their Morning Prayer reading to complement the gospel on this same day. The gospel reading for the Mass from Luke opened with these verses: “Jesus said to his disciples:
‘He goes before us…’: Do we desire life, do we long for freedom, do we want the love that is stronger than death, and the joy that makes our lives complete, then we must follow. Holy Week is like a ‘bas relief’ painting: it puts front and center the Paschal Mystery, a mystery that is woven in our lives. Our lives are stamped with the ‘paschal mystery’, stamped with this paradigm of Life that rises up out of death, the precious life that expands, with each surrender
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