All Saints Day Novena Day 4
Continuing in The Gospel
Maximum of Love
Jesus embraces the person, who is poor and weak, and
shows his pierced heart, not to authorize mediocrity but so that the person may
strive to the maximum toward the perfection of the Father’s love.
The Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, the firmness
of his reaction against scandal (pluck out your eye; cut off your hand), his
unflinching position before they hypocrisy of the Pharisees, the decisive
condemnation of a system that had killed the spirit of the law to exalt the
letter (that then became the real cause of his Crucifixion), the example of an
atrocious death accepted and lived with love and forgiveness, all show what
Jesus had come to reveal to us by coming among us on earth.
He came to bring us, on the part of the Father, the
message of maximum love.
The words of Bishop Giaquinta here could not be more
direct and piercing, the infinite love and forgiveness of God the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit are ours for the asking, but CANNOT be taken for granted as a
“blank check” to live our lives the way we please. Our lives are not our own, for we have been
purchased with a price.
Dear Jesus help us see and be
sorry for how much we take you for
granted. Help us begin to see through
Your eyes what maximum love truly is.
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