Pro_Vocación Sa-Fa

 

Love

In the Gospel, the main topic or what can summarize the message of the teaching of Christ could be Love. Love for God, love for one another. In fact, Christ loved the Father and has shown it by being obedient to him. The Spirit who is the Love of the Father and the Son has come to fulfil what Christ has initiated. We can see that the Most Holy Trinity is a community of Love.

The same Love could be seen in the Holy Family of Nazareth. It is there that the Son of God grew and learnt what love is and how love is. Mary was united to Joseph in Love and vice versa. They educated the infant Jesus in this Love. Remember, Love for God and Love for human being. Christ, at his turn, responded to that love by love. He loved his parents and has been obedient to them. This show us that obedient is a very sign of true Love.

Brother Gabriel, in various ways, taught to his Brothers to stay in love, love for God and love for others. He experienced the need of Love, from his family, where he could see his parents loving each other and loving their children, the neighborhood, the visitors etc.

That is why he chose the Holy Family as patron of his small community, the family where love was very experienced.

We too, as aspirants to become Brothers of the Holy Family should form ourselves to the life of Love.

And Love is described by the Apostle of the Gentiles, the one through whom the Gospel went to us, Saint Paul in his first Letter to the Corinthians.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. (1 Co 13:4-8)