Today’s Gospel reading is truly the essence of Christianity and our whole existence – to love one another and love our God, who created us. Love means sacrifice. Jesus gave us the greatest act of love when He died for us on the cross. And many still imitate Him, in stories we never read in our newspapers and websites.
Love is what Lenny Skutnik
did in January 1982 when he jumped into the frozen waters of the Potomac River
in Washington DC to save various people from a plane that had crashed in the
river.
Love is what St
Maximilian Kolbe did in a concentration camp in Auschwitz in 1944 when he
offered his life instead of another family man.
Love is what thousands of
people do with their blood donations, as well as organ donors, so that other
people can live with a new heart, a kidney, a lung, a cornea, or a simple pint
of blood.
Love is what Sonny Melton
did in Las Vegas, when he heard the shooting and covered his wife Heather with
his body, dying in the process while she survived.
Love is what one of my
former parishioners, Jessica Ellis, 20 years old, when in 2008 became a
paramedic to help the US soldiers in Iraq, and ended up being killed by the
enemy, when she could have stayed in the luxury of her home with her family.
Love is what journalists
like Daphne Caruana Galizia, the murdered Maltese journalist showed when she
gave her life when she tried to reveal irregularities and heinous actions of
some criminals and culprits.
Yes, love is possible – but
let us start with the small simple things, those we see as insignificant – and
as the Beatles used to tell us “All we need is LOVE!” True, authentic, sincere, and reciprocal. LOVE.
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