Let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth. (1 Jn. 3:18)
The first question
that we learned in the catechism as children was: “Why did God
create you? And we answered: To know, love
and serve God. TODAY THIS IS TOTALLY UPSIDE DOWN: religion exists for
a great number of people to serve me, not to help me to serve God,
not to help me to discover the will of God from the teachings of the
Church guided by the Pope (Mt 16:18), not to help me to do the will
of God with the help of prayer and the Sacraments (as we say in the
Our Father: “THY (not mine!) will be done”!). The great majority
of people today do not want to take even the first step to discover
what God wants. The philosophy of life is: “Ignorance is bliss”!
Bliss today, but tomorrow, and after death?!? The recent Popes tell
us that the gravest sin today is that we have lost the sense of sin.
One trusts in himself and not in God-Love! “Jesus I trust in You!”
(Saint Faustina).
A teacher asked a child
what is love. The little girl answered simply that live means to want
to be together and to pass time together with
those who you love. How many parents, and in particular, the fathers
of children, pass very little time with their children. If a girl
does not receive love from her true father, afterwards, she easily
welcomes false love from boys that want to take advantage of her for
their own egoism and pleasure. If a boy does not receive true love
from his father, the boy seeks to gain the attention of the father by
seeking success in doing instead of being, in the simple friendship
of true love between Dad and son. If there is not the presence of the
father at all, there is the danger that the small boy identifies
himself with the mother and to develop the disorder of homosexuality
in which the relationships with other homosexual boys is not altruism
but egoism, because the boy never received true love of altruism from
the male model in his family. Behold how the fathers in the families
can love “in deed and in truth”, to
love their children as the father want to be loved, as the children
want to be loved, and above all to be together in the simplicity of
wanting well for each other with the help of God.
If a person did not
receive true love in the family, how can he love others? We are born
in original sin, in egoism; without pray and if no one offers
personally true love, not only empty words, it is very difficult to
come out of the pit of disguised egoism. Thus my brothers and
sisters, let us pray much and offer small sacrifices for those who
did not receive this authentic love from the family, which are very
numerous today! But the most fundamental thing is to pass as much
time as possible with the Divine Prisoner in the tabernacle, Who
gives us drop by drop divine milk in order to have more and more a
deep relationship with Him, without which it is impossible to have a
relationship or human friendship based on true love and altruism, not
disguised egoism. Then when we have that opportunity to love
concretely, let us love totally to the point of being ready to give
our life for Jesus Who hides in each brother who presents himself
before us during the day, in particular those in our homes, not just
those on the other side of the street with which we do not live in
the same house!
"It would be
easier for the world to survive without the sun than
to do so without the Holy Mass", Saint Padre Pio.
“The Rosary is the
weapon for these times”, Saint Padre Pio.
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An Experience of Life:
I live near the wall
that was built in my country to divide us
between the Arabs and the Jews. I see it every day opening the window
of my room. Along the way, then, there are checkpoints where the
soldiers stop anyone wanting to pass to check the documents, and so
to go school, to visit relatives or friends becomes an adventurous
undertaking ...!
I become agitated
every time the soldiers stop us, but then I remember that I can offer
my fear to Jesus and that the soldier is a man like me, so I have to
love him.
In this way I feel that
Jesus becomes everything to me, giving me the
strength to re-begin each day, the weight of the difficulty becomes
lighter.
Juliana, the Holy Land
