LOVE SUNDAY 33

Unity in Diversity

picture, bibleencyclopedia.com 

I like to remember the motto of the Indonesian state, Unity in Diversity. Indonesia has many languages, many ethnic, many cultures, many islands, and so on, but Indonesia is one. Indonesia has one language make the Indonesian people unity. Today, Jesus teaches us the importance of the unity. The unity with Him. 

He gives us a parabola, like the vine and the branch. The vine is Jesus and we are the branch. I am the true vine, said Jesus, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that, does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.

In this phrase, we are invited to make the unity with Him. Jesus shows us the unity of He and His Father. And, He invites us to do like that. If we are in unity, we can bear the fruits, we can give the fruits.

Like this parabola, we come from many nations. The majority is Italians, but some of us, come from the other's nation like Indonesia, Equador, Filipin, and some nations from Africa. We are in unity in the one home, that is the church of Saint Cristin. Just with this unity, We can hear the many voices of the Italian children, the African children, the Asian children, and also the voice of my friend, Mara. She teaches us at this Sunday.

This voice is like the branch of the vine. These voices are the branch that the part of the true vine. It is mean, this branch makes the fruits.

Happy Sunday

Parma, 4 May 2015