Luke 14: 12-14
Jesus said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989, by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. USCCB approved.
God is Love
God is love.
Believing God is love, Fr. Michael Himes would often teach the idea of God as both a verb and noun since love is often manifested in action. Himes also discussed the idea of love as the ability to lose oneself in a relationship, activity or experience.
God’s love is unconditional. It is not transactional or conditional in any way. A person’s ability to forgive is often connected to their ability to love God, themselves, and their neighbor unconditionally and without measurement or expectation of anything in return.
God is love.
—Dr. Sajit U. Kabadi is the Assistant Principal for Mission, Ministry, and Diversity at Regis Jesuit High School in Colorado.
Prayer
Love is a one-way street. It always moves away from self in the direction of the other. Love is the ultimate gift of ourselves to others. When we stop giving, we stop loving, when we stop loving we stop growing, and unless we grow, we will never attain personal fulfillment; we will never open out to receive the life of God. It is through love we encounter God.
—St. Teresa of Calcutta
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