{"id":17475,"date":"2016-08-15T01:01:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=17475"},"modified":"2016-06-27T06:17:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:17:57","slug":"living-in-gratitude-growing-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2016\/08\/15\/living-in-gratitude-growing-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Gratitude; Growing in Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Di\u00e1c.-Edimilson-Dias-da-Silva-150x150\"<\/a>We live\u00a0so accustomed to trading relations, that we run the risk of imagining that God treats us this way as well. <\/span>However, the Lord doesn’t love us by the fact that we have chosen to live with Him. <\/span>Paul tells us that: “the proof that God loves us is that Christ died for us while we were yet sinners” (Rm 5.8).<\/span><\/p>\n

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God loves us! <\/span>We don’t have to do anything to pay for that love. <\/span>However, the more we love him, our life will acquire His way of acting. <\/span>With God, we learn to forgive as He forgave us, to\u00a0seek\u00a0the Father in prayer as Jesus sought; <\/span>We discover\u00a0that, in reality, wherever we are can be a source of communion, not division.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lord help us today to experience this love freely and that we may love with gratitude.<\/p>\n

God bless your day.<\/p>\n

Your brother, <\/strong>
\nFather Edmilson Dias<\/strong>
\nMaranath\u00e1, come Lord Jesus!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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