{"id":17232,"date":"2016-08-04T01:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T06:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=17232"},"modified":"2016-06-11T09:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T14:52:24","slug":"let-love-grow-in-our-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2016\/08\/04\/let-love-grow-in-our-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Love Grow in Our Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>We can&#8217;t treat love as something disposable, we use and then throw away, because they don&#8217;t serve<\/h2>\n<p><em><span lang=\"en\">&#8220;If someone were to say: love God, but hates his brother, he is a liar. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Because he who does not love his brother, whom you see, is incapable of loving God, who does not see &#8220;<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"en\"> (1Jo 4.20).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Beloved brethren, these days, the love of God has led our thoughts, feelings and our heart. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">There is no more wonderful experience for the human heart than be consumed by the mercy of the father, for it manifests itself in our life so very loving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">God&#8217;s love constrains us, healing, relieves and restores us. When are touched by divine love, we were in love of God. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">And stay in love of the Lord is to let love for him and respond to that love. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">God loves us and we love him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">You know, the word &#8220;love&#8221; was very common sense, uncouth. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Any and all human experience, often negative experiences, misguided, selfish and proud we call love. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">But love is something so sublime and genuine, it is the most characteristic adjective for God, it is the noun that best qualifies and denotes God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Who wants to remain in God needs love, above all, the presence of God among us, that we are practical people of flesh and blood. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">We can say so in our hearts: &#8220;I love God!&#8221;, but ignore, we disqualify ourselves, we just spend time concerned over who&#8217;s on our side, who is our neighbor, our brother. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">This is something else, but it&#8217;s not the experience of the love of God. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">In the heart, we love him, but, in practice, the love is how we treat the brother who&#8217;s on our side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">No one can see God. He<\/span><span lang=\"en\">\u00a0exists, is in the midst of us, but we can only love him specifically when we\u00a0\u00a0love those who are \u00a0on our side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Love is not just words, but something concrete; <\/span><span lang=\"en\">love is a gesture, attitude and decisions. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">When we decided to love God, we need to decide to love our\u00a0brother every day. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">We can&#8217;t rule out anyone, we cannot treat love as something disposable, that we use and then we throw away, because they don&#8217;t serve it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">We can&#8217;t play anyone out of our heart. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">We need to show that we love the Lord not with words, but in practice. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">And the practice of the love of God happens when we love!<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">It is true that there are people who are hardest to love, want to love well, but . . .when we let ourselves be taken for that love of God in our life, we&#8217;ve seized back the hate and let love grow in us.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">God bless you!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsofttranslator.com\/bv.aspx?from=&amp;to=en&amp;a=http%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FUdQoGa\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22712 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/img.cancaonova.com\/cnimages\/canais\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/repensando-a-vida.jpeg\" alt=\"repensando-a-vida\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<footer id=\"autor_info\" class=\"entry-utility\">\n<figure class=\"entry-thumb\"><a class=\"entry_author_image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsofttranslator.com\/bv.aspx?from=&amp;to=en&amp;a=http%3A%2F%2Fhomilia.cancaonova.com%2Fauthor%2Fhomilia%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.cancaonova.com\/cnimages\/canais\/authors\/3_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<div class=\"entry-bloco\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\">Fr. 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Because he who does not love his brother,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141739],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17233,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions\/17233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}