{"id":19268,"date":"2018-08-28T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=19268"},"modified":"2018-08-27T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T16:19:47","slug":"christian-needs-understand-strength-gods-love-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2018\/08\/28\/christian-needs-understand-strength-gods-love-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian Needs to Understand the Strength of God's Love for Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

God’s love for us is infinite<\/span><\/h2>\n

The whole Christian life has a center: love.<\/span> John Paul II explains it incomparably: “Being Christians is not first to assume a multitude of commitments and obligations, but to allow oneself to be loved by God.”<\/span> And complete: “Whoever you are, whatever your existential condition, God loves you.<\/span> He totally loves you.<\/span> God loves all without distinction and without limits.<\/span> He loves us all with an unconditional and eternal love. “<\/span><\/p>\n

God loves us as only He can do it: infinitely.<\/span> God surrounds us, out of love, with His Grace, despite our negligence and imperfections.<\/span> However unworthy we may be, He inspires us, enlightens our ways and diffuses into our hearts.<\/span> Again, St. John Paul II reminds us that “the love of God to men knows no limits”, does not stop at any barrier of race or culture: it is universal, it is for all.<\/span> Just ask for availability and welcome;<\/span> only requires a human terrain to fertilize, done with an honest conscience and goodwill. “<\/span><\/p>\n

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The fullness of God’s love<\/span><\/h3>\n

The love of God is so great that it became man.<\/span> This for some creatures is unthinkable.<\/span> A God who becomes a man?<\/span> A God who, from the state of absolute omnipotence, is reduced to the smallness of a human being?<\/span> God has done for us, more than we can understand.<\/span> Is there such a love in the world, despite our faults, faults and offenses?<\/span><\/p>\n

God has come to us to unexpected ends, to the extent of becoming man to save us.<\/span> St. Augustine said that so great was the pride of man that he needed divine humility to heal himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

And love with love gets paid.<\/span> The love that God has for us is the health of the soul.<\/span> A soul without love is dead.<\/span> We can not see the Creator with lukewarmness as He loves us with so much ardor.<\/span> If God loves us, Saint Bernard reminds us, we must love Him, knowing that it makes us happy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Commandment<\/span><\/h3>\n

The first commandment is to love God with all your heart , with all your might.<\/span> We must consecrate to Him every thought, intelligence and daily work.<\/span> The measure of love for God is to love him without measure.<\/span> We must wish to love him more.<\/span> Whoever does not want to love God more than He loves will in no way fulfill the precept of love.<\/span> Blessed Jose Maria Escriva said: “Lord, that you may have weight and measure in everything … except in Love” (Path, 427).<\/span><\/p>\n

Man can never love God as much as He should be loved, because God is infinitely kind.<\/span> We must ask God to let us know Him, to love Him deeply, to let us see Him in all things.<\/span><\/p>\n

God alone is enough to calm our desires.<\/span> “God is greater than our heart” (1 Jn 3:20).<\/span> That is why Augustine says in the First Book of Confessions : “Lord, you have made us for yourself and our heart are restless until it rests in you.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us the two fundamental commandments: to love God above all things and to love our neighbor as yourself.<\/span> And we all know how hard it is to love those who offend us.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Paul, presents this to us wonderfully: “To some people it is easy to love them;<\/span> to others, it is difficult: they are not nice, they have offended us or done us wrong;<\/span> only if I love God in seriousness, I come to love them as daughters of God and because He commands me.<\/span> Jesus has also fixed how to love our neighbor, that is, not only with the feeling, but with the facts: (…) I was hungry in the person of my little brothers, did you feed me?<\/span> Did you visit me when I was sick? “<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong><\/span> 
\n.: God calls every man to holiness<\/a><\/span> 
\n.: Spiritual aridity can be a stepping stone to holiness<\/a><\/span> 
\n.: Three Steps to Live the Quest for Holiness<\/a><\/span> 
\n.: What are the goals?<\/a><\/span> What do we bring in the heart that we need to heal?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Links to pages translated by computer by Google Translate<\/p>\n

We love our neighbor for God, because those who love God, it is inevitable not to love our neighbor<\/span><\/h3>\n

Saint Therese of Lisieux explains: “I understood that only love is what drives us… if this love were lacking, the apostles would not proclaim the Gospel, nor would the martyrs shed their blood.<\/span> Love contains all vocations, love is everything, embraces all times and places: love is eternal.<\/span> Then, full of overflowing joy, ‘Oh Jesus, my love, I have finally found my vocation: my vocation is love!’ “<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, love protects us from adversity.<\/span> Suffering, abandonment, contradiction, when taken in love, take on a totally different meaning.<\/span> Even setbacks and temporary difficulties for the one he loves.<\/span><\/p>\n

“All that is difficult, in the commandments , is done by love.<\/span> What does not love do?<\/span> See how they work those who love;<\/span> those who suffer do not feel, they redouble their efforts to the tone of difficulties, “reminds St. Augustine.<\/span><\/p>\n

“In your difficulties, in moments of trial and discouragement, when it seems that all dedication is as empty of interests and values, bear in mind that God knows your efforts!<\/span> God loves you one by one, is close to you, understands them!<\/span> Trust in Him and in this certainty, find the courage and joy to fulfill your duty with love and with joy! “(St. John Paul II).<\/span><\/p>\n

Life of holiness<\/span><\/h3>\n

Love leads to happiness.<\/span> Only to those who have it, He promises them eternal bliss.<\/span> And without Him, everything else has been insufficient.<\/span> Love produces in man perfect joy .<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us again find the way to God.<\/span> Not to any god, but to the God who has manifested himself Father in the most loving face of Jesus of Nazareth.<\/span> Let us remember the tender and affectionate embrace of the Father when he finds the “prodigal” son again.<\/span> If we let ourselves be found by Him, our hearts will speak of peace.<\/span> It will be easy to respond to His love with love.<\/span> To understand, just think of Jesus on the Cross and the thief crucified with Him, next to Him.<\/span> Jesus assured him, “Today you will be with me in paradise!”<\/span><\/p>\n

There is probably no one who loves the world more than a mother.<\/span> Let us meet with the Blessed Virgin and ask her to teach us to love her Son more.<\/span> She had him in her arms, when she was born in a crib, and when they came down from the Cross.<\/span> Mary, the perfect model of Love for God, will show us the way to give our whole heart to God.<\/span><\/p>\n

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