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1 JOHN 4:7-10
MARK 6:34-44
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In today’s first reading, St. John emphasizes that the initiative for love that comes from God and not from us. God does not love us just because we love or obey him. So, what, then, do we mean by “love” in our reading today?
C.S. Lewis, the Christian writer, once wrote a book called “The Four Loves”. One of these is “agape”, the form of love that John is talking about. “Agape” is: “a passionate desire for the well-being of the other”. This is the love that God unconditionally extends to all his creatures without exception. It is the love that each of us must also extend to every one of our brothers and sisters again and again, without a single exception. It is an outreaching love; an unconditional love; it does not depend on mood, liking or disliking. It is based purely and simply on the need and on the good of the other.
Today, let us go and pass on his love for us to everyone we meet.
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