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They spat on him but he
would say, this would not prohibit me to love you more. They put a crown of
thorns on his head, it was very painful, the blood crushed from the hard
thorns; but He used to repeat, put more than one crown of thorn on my head
and I will love your more. They hit Him, they whipped Him, they mocked Him;
but he felt more and more that his love was not shaken; He looked to them
with pity and said, I forgive you, and I love you. They nailed his hands and
feet on the cross; but He kept repeating, even if you nail every figure of
my hands and feet, I will not cease to love you more and more. We put Him on
cross, His suffering was tremendous but the love for us was without any
limit. His eyes were the same, looks of love and attachment to poor
humanity. His cry of love took pity of the thief who asked to enter the
Kingdom of love as this thief discovered the candid attitude, the deepness,
the patience and the forgiveness in the eyes of the One nailed at his left:
“Today you will be with Me in paradise.” Luke 23:43
“For so he loved the world”
John 3:16 and He forgave us before we killed Him. Do you understand with me
the love of God for us?
Look at yourself and find
out how you start to get angry and swear for the least word or hurt; find
out how you try to get vengeance and assure yourself that you did the most
of it. Do you understand how man does not know how to love? Do you
understand why Jesus asked us to love each other as He loved us? Do you
understand the meaning of “Love your enemies” as he did love? And would you
understand one day the meaning of "Forgive us our sins as we forgive” as in
reality we do not forgive?
Strange is the love of God,
and strange is also our way to love> Great is God and miserable is man> Do
you see what cowards are we humans? I feel I want ask for forgiveness, do
you feel the same now? Return to yourself and forgive the one that you did
not want to forgive for a long time. Love as God has loved so as to shine
and be worthy of your Christian name that we do not deserve to have. Follow
the example of the saints and ask for their prayers so they may help you to
live a holy and truthful life as they did. Hurry up to the one whom you did
not know how to love, and love him as God loves, give him, God will give
you; forget any resentment, award with good deed who wronged you so as to
deserve to be the Son of God who sends his sun to the good and the bad.
Nobody can change you and
make you better than yourself; so decide now to have a new life and be a new
person.
Prayer: Lord, how beautiful
and how great are You! Come into my life and teach me to change what I could
not know how to change. Lord, how eager am I to be a real Christian like my
Mother Mary. Lord, you called me the light of the world, how can I shine
Your immense love when I am still what I have always been: selfish, slow of
will, not knowing to forgive or ask for forgiveness? O Lord, have pity on
me. Amen. |