Gospel: John
15:9-11
Jesus
said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in
my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I
have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
“I have
told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.”
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Reflection:
What
makes marriage last forever? It’s love! Not love according to the meaning of
this world but love according to the love of Jesus. Unfortunately many of us express our love
according to this world. Not the kind of love that Jesus mentions to us in the
gospel.
Otherwise
if the love that binds a couple together in the sacrament of marriage is like the
love of Jesus. There would be no divorce or separation amongst couples.
The word
love has been devalued by the people of this modern world. Who is the culprit?
No other than us! We have lowered to the gutter the word love because we’ve not
been faithful to Jesus this is also the reason why we don’t feel the love of
Jesus.
Let us go
back and revisit the meaning of love as Jesus meant it to be in the sacrament
of Marriage.
Here
goes: For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health,
until death do us part. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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