Today's Sunday Gospel sums up the whole Bible and the Kingdom of God. In response to one of the scribes who asked Jesus "Which is the first of all the commandments?" Jesus replied:
"This is the first:
Hear, O Israiel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! Therefore you shall love the Lord your God
With all your heart,
with all your soul,
with all your mind,
and with all your strength,
This is the second,
You shal love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no other commandment greater than these."
[Mark 12: 28-31]
All the social/political woes, all wars, all killing of the innocent in the womb or out of the womb, all defrauding, all false advertising, all malicious lies and behaviors, all jealousy, all envy, all theft of other's good name, or their goods or their wives or husbands, all child abuse, all adult abuse, all chosen aetheism: ALL are the results of forgetting or throwing aside what Jesus said in those words.
Those Great Words of Jesus were theologically digested by someone who is almost synonimous with Love. He is the "disciple Jesus loved."
Yes, Jesus had a Beloved Disciple: St. John, the only disciple who had the courage to stand under the cross because true love [agape] is love unto death. John was a man of love.
Let us see the best ever written theology of Love by Jesus' Beloved Disciple: St. John who knew Love to its greatest depth that any only human man has:
"Beloved, let us love one another because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten of God and has knowledge of God. The man without love has known nothing of God, for God is love. God's love was revealed in our midst in this way: He sent his only Son to the world that we might have life through him. Love, then, consists in this: not that we have loved God, but that he has loved us and has sent his Son as an offering for our sins.
Beloved, if God has loved us to, we must have the same love for one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet if we love one another God dwells in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us. The way we know we remain in him and he in us is that he has given us of His Spirit. When anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him and he in God. We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.
God is love,
and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him. Our love is brought to perfection in this that we should have confidence on the day of judgment.....Love has no room for fear; rather, perfect love casts out all fear...Love is not yet perfect in one who is afraid."
[1 John 4: 717]
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Jesus spoke of Love. John spoke of the Love Jesus brought us.
Please read those words slowly by Jesus and John..because the Spirit will detonate them for you...and show you their total and true meaning for your life...because LOVE'S ALL THAT MATTERS!
Much Love and Peace,
Pio November 4, 2012
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