LOVE SUNDAY 21
The love of God
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I want to write again
this article. I leave it for
some Sundays. But, today (Sunday, 30 August), I have a spirit to start again.
Last Sunday I have written and, now, I want to continue. I think this topic
must go on. If not, it is something that be left.
I and my friend from Indonesia were going to the Saint Christina Church.
There, I give a lecturer from the children. We talked about the
love of God. In the first reading today, we listened to Jesus speak to
his disciples that he must go to the Jerusalem to suffer, died, and rise again.
I rewrite the phrase from the Gospel, “….he must go to Jerusalem and suffer
greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and
on the third day be raised.”
In the next part of it Jesus gives the instruction or the conditional
for someone who wants to follow Him. He
must deny himself, take up his cross and follow Him. Just three words, deny-take up-and follow. And then, he
said, the follower must suffer. They were facing the suffering.
I think these words are sent to us today, partly the follower
of Jesus. We are facing the suffering in our lives. Many of us have the big
problem, the great suffering in daily life, in social life. We hope these will
be ended. I have explained this point for the children. In addition, I say
again that we must go on until we arrive at the love of God. Because the
cross is the symbol of the suffering, but the resurrection is the symbol of
love.
We have received the love of God through our
parents. They give us the love of God. We must go on this love for others
suffering today.
Happy Sunday
