Pastor's Message

6th Sunday of Easter

“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”  1John 4.8

             Happy mothers’ day to all mothers. It is right that we celebrate mothers; the first vessel of life and love in our lives. In the midst of all, that goes on around us, God enables mothers to be true and dedicated consolers, assuring that love is infused in humanity from the very beginning. With time, mothers act like love filling stations. They become reservoirs of love, where, sons and daughters go back with certitude of being loved and accepted without judgment. Mothers help us satisfy almost every hunger. Once, St. Mother Teresa said, “Being unwanted, uncared for, unloved, forgotten by everyone, I think, is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty, than having nothing to eat.” Good mothers satisfy in many hungers and thirsts in absolute self-giving! Let us, then thank God for the gift, mothers are to humanity.

             The Love of a mother is dispensable because of the reality of our being; we are beings, created out of love and for love. Our origin is God, and as St John affirms, God is Love. This is why John concludes; “Everyone who love is begotten by God and knows God.” “Whoever is without love does not know God.”

             Love is the mission for a Christians, as Jesus urges; “As the father loves me, so I also love you, remain in my Love.” Jesus continues; “Whoever loves me will keep my Word, and the Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my Words.”

            These words are challenging but there is consolation in them, that can go unnoticed, namely; “… and we will come to him and make our home with him.” The disciple who holds fast to love, experiences an unfailing flow of Divine Love. The outcome of which is an experience is Divine Peace; Peace that is real and unique; “A Peace that the world cannot give.”

           Those among us who have been or are in relationships grounded in sincere self-giving love, would agree that love is uplifting. This kind of love glitters and is witnessed by all. Loving is a hard reality, especially when self-giving is absent.

           This is why every disciple, requires a helper; an advocate, the consoler: The Holy Spirit; whom the Father sends in Christ’s name! He is the One who guides us the Church and who as Jesus tells us, “Leads us to complete Truth; God Himself!”

            Let us pray to the Lord for the strength to persevere, in love, to the end.

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