We are responsible for our brothers with us on the journey and we cannot lose them. We can only gain them for God. The Lord bought us with the price of His precious Blood. We cannot lose them no matter what happens.
The love of God is unconditional. The love that He has for us – he also has for our brothers, whomever they may be. For God there does not exist a better or lesser, poorer and richer Jesus says clearly: “I came for the sinner, I came to take sin from the sinner.” (Matthew 9:13b)
Jesus loves the most necessary and greatest sinner, because they are those that are most needed. The Lord does not want to lose anyone, therefore he needs our help for those that draw close to Him and remain tied to Him.

When I was a youth, I liked to scale mountains a lot. I scaled mountain piques very high as in Italy. In certain points of the climbing when the journey was becoming most difficult, a companion helped another with a rope. The rope was tied on the belt that was in front and on the belt that came from behind. The people went up tied one to another.

We cannot “untie” the brother. We cannot cut the brother, nor permit that he is untied for he will fall to the “mountain below”. You become responsible for the neighbor, thus as he is for you.

“Do not owe any debt to anyone one, except the debt to love one another, for he that loves his brother completes all the law.” (Romans 13:8) For all the commandments can be summed up in these words: “Love your neighbor as yourself” Therefore charity is full of completing the law of God.

God bless you!
Monsignor Jonas Abib
Founder of the  Canção Nova Comunity

translated from Portuguese