When our tradition says that God loves the world, it means He loves all people at all times and in all conditions, without discriminating between one person and another, whether sinful or righteous. This is an essential aspect of the God portrayed in our Scriptures as: love (1 John 4:8), meaning a steadfast love that ...
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Unconditional Love
The Simplicity of Love
When one of my grandchildren visits us, he imposes his program on us. This is what we had experienced before. God gave us three children, two of whom, out of God's generosity, got married, and got children. Caring for a child differs from caring for a grandchild. The grandchild is more capable of overturning most ...
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Last night, a TV reportage reminded me of the "International Blood Donor Day". For healthy adults (between 18 and 65 years old) this is an exhortation to be vigilant that we are all responsible for serving life on earth. The reportage told that male donors could, if they wished, repeat this donation every two months, ...
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Every time it is proven to me that someone is boasting about something he finds beautiful in himself, I say that: “this one is in need of someone to love him or (in need of) understanding that love is always free”. Nothing restores our senses like our belief that “love does not seek its own” ...
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When Jesus said to Judas on the night of his betrayal: "Friend, why have you come?" (Matthew 26:50), He revealed that the one who is constant in the relations between us and Him is He Himself! Luke, in listing the disciples, said: “and Judas who also became a traitor” (6:16). People reverse themselves. How does ...
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