Gospel: Matthew 18:12-14
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if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the
ninety-nine that did not stray. In just the same way, it is not the will of
your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.
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Reflection:
Can we compare the love of Jesus with how we exercise
our love for our fellowmen?
No, we cannot compare because majority if not all of
us love with preconditions and conditions. We love with limitations and we love
only those who give us love. Jesus loves us without any preconditions,
limitations and He loves us even if we don’t love Him in return.
We all know that Jesus is alluding about His infinite
love for us when He told this story of the lost sheep. By way of this
story He is also telling us that His love for us is always there no matter how
sinful we are and no matter who we are.
As we follow Jesus, we must also ask Him to deepen our
faith and to erase our preconditions and conditions when we love. For example,
if before we could only love those who give us love, now that we have become
mature followers of Jesus. We would love even those who do not give us love and
those people who do not love us anymore.
To love even those who do not love us and those who
hurt us is very hard to do. But if we really are sincere in following Jesus, we
would be able to love them. And we would search for them until we find them and
forgive them without any precondition.
Let us find those who went astray, let us forgive them and give them the unconditional love of Jesus. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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