God Proves His Love

Introduction

We live in a high-tech scientific world that demands physical proof for everything. But lately, even science has become so politicized that one doesn’t know what to believe. But in the spiritual world, still, divine revelation (the word of God) is applied with faith and good philosophy to arrive at unchanging, eternal truths.

Body

For instance, the Apostle Paul, our second reading to the Romans, talks about the proof of the Love of God. He writes, “God has proven his love for usin that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

First, God proved his love for us by his mercy, covering the nakedness and sin of our first parents, Adam and Eve, instead of casting them off forever.

God then proved his love for us by his justice, saving Noah and his family from the judgment of the flood.

God proved his love for us by his grace, freeing Israel from slavery in Egypt through Moses, reminding them of his special love and affection for them, and bringing through them the promised Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World.

God proves his love for each and every one of us today in creating us to be, to know God, to love and serve God

Conclusion

And now, as we prepare to taste and see the goodness of the Lord, body, blood, soul, and divinity, in the Eucharist once again, what should our response be to God and towards those who hate Christ, mocking his love for them on the cross, and mocking his maidservants in his church in sacrilege, and disrespecting the faith of millions of Catholics? My natural tendency is like St. Peter’s toward the Samaritans in righteous anger, wanting to call down fire and brimstone. But Jesus says, again and again, No, No, That’s not the answer; that’s not the way. But that we are called to holiness to open wide the doors of our hearts and our Churches to the love of Christ for all. Being ambassadors of Christ in reparation and reconciliation, praying and fasting for the salvation of souls, because Jesus’ heart is still moved with pity at the sight of crowds troubled and abandoned like sheep without a shepherd, echoing his words even more fitting now more than ever, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, repent, go sin no more, and believe in the Gospel. Amen+