Love

God is Love and His Love fills us with Joy.

In Heaven we'll be immersed in the Love of God and our Joy will have no measure.                                                                               Let's bring some of this Heavenly love and joy to our earthly life and to the lives of others.

“In the twilight of our life, we shall be judged on our love.”  Saint John of the Cross.

“Love is to know how to give away part of you without expecting to recover it back” St Ignatius of Loyola

In this website we talk about love in its purest sense. We talk about the love to God and our neighbor. We talk about how we can grow in our love to God and neighbor through our actions, works and prayers, and how to project that love on our neighbors in our daily walk. We invite you to familiarize with the contents of this website and to propose to put in practice its suggestions and advice. Little by little you will begin to develop and take into your soul and to the soul of those near you that inexhaustible joy of the love of God towards all mankind, as this joy of God materializes and manifests in your soul, fills your spirit and overflows toward your neighbors. Open your heart to the love of God and propose yourself to change your life for ever, for love. Come with us to seek the Teacher, and let’s embark in the marvelous adventure of life, with and in the Grace, the Love and the Joy of God.

ACTIONS, WORKS AND PRAYERS

“You are light for the world. A city built on a hill-top cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp to put it under a tub; they put it on the lamp-stand where it shines for everyone in the house.  In the same way your light must shine in people's sight, so that, seeing your good works, they may give praise to your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14-16

God does not send us impossible things, instead by sending, He teaches us to do as much as we can, and to pray for what we can’t.” Saint Augustin.

In the Gospel according to Matthew, a pharisee to test Jesus, asked him: “Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?” Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.”  Matthew 22:34-35. Later on, in the Last Supper with his disciples, Jesus said to them: “I give you a new commandment: love one another; you must love one another just as I have loved you.  It is by your love for one another, that everyone will recognize you as my disciples.”  John 13:34-35. In this biblical passage Jesus orders us to love each other as He has loved us. And how, has Jesus loved us? He explains it himself: “No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13. Therefore, it is evident, that for the Christian, loving our neighbor, without measure, is not an option, but an unequivocal and concrete mandate. It is a mandate more difficult to comply with than what it looks at first sight, although not impossible. In order to carry out this mandate of love we must have an internal disposition in our soul and in our spirit to get rid of every type of egoism and self-centered feelings, and requires a concrete plan that will inspire and permit us to project that love to Him and to our neighbors.  Our love must be, then, first to Jesus and then to our neighbor”.

“The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.”  St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

“Whoever loves God must also love his neighbor.” St. Maximus.

And how can we love Jesus? He tells us:  Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me; and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and reveal myself to him.'

Anyone who loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him.” “ Anyone who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not my own: it is the word of the Father who sent me. John 14:21-23. “If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled. This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you.” John 15:10-12.  Therefore, our disposition, our works and our prayers must be aimed to that love to which Jesus call us, toward him and towards our peers.  We must be predisposed to love in every moment and towards that end we must keep his commandments, live in his Grace in order to bring God into our hearts, and from there to the heart of our neighbors. Consequently, our thoughts, our works and our prayers must be always based, developed and realized in the love of Jesus and our neighbors.”

"Instead, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend without any hope of return. You will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.” Luke 6:35

“God loves me more than I love myself.” St. Ignatius of Loyola.

"Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love."  1 John 4:8

     "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God, and everyone who loves the father loves also the one         begotten by him. In this way we know that we love the children of God when we love God and obey his commandments. For the love of God is this, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith." 1 John 5:1