Sunday Reflection: What's Love Got to do with It?

Sunday Reflection: What's Love Got to do with It?

By: Father Richard Voigt

When in the imagination of the Triune God the whole scheme of humanity entered a question also entered:  Shall I create a moral universe or should it be robotic?  Creation began and when God came to man, He created him in His own Image, the Image of Love.  Love that is divine always expands.  The principle is clearly stated in the philosophic phrase:  Good, by nature, diffuses itself.  Man is created in this divine love and must give in order to grow.  Not to share is to wither and to die.  

All nature proclaims this foundation of love in us.  Nature, as if in judgment, said to the mole (that once had eyes) if you do not choose to use the power of sight then nature proclaims "take the talent away."  Our human nature was created in divine love and can only thrive when it truly love divinely.  Pride pushed the pharisee to tempt our Lord with the question concerning the greatest commandment.  Our Lord's responded:  "Love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength and your whole mind.  The second is like it.  Love your neighbor as yourself."

On this divine love every prophet, every word of God rests secure.  We must take this love very seriously.  Divine love is expressed not by the Greek word, eros.  Today we  use the word erotic indicating a sexual love but the Greeks understood "eros" to be the first movement of love called "attraction".  Divine love is not expressed by the Greek term "phileo".  From this root we derive the word Philadelphia, city of brotherly love.  No, divine love is called "agapao" in the Greek language.  Agape is a divine, victimal, sacrificial love.

Jesus defined it clearly in stating that the Son of Man will lay down His Life for His sheep.  This is the love that encompasses our nature and expands our horizons.  

There is no sacrifice too small; there is no offering too great that it cannot find its true place in the heart of God.  Now Jesus goes beyond the question of the pharisee and asks another question:  "Whose son is the Christ?"

Note their answer:  "The son of David."  If he is David's son then how does he say "The Lord said to my Lord..."  In other words can a father call his son, Lord?  No.  The pharisees could not answer this questions because it would mean the acceptance of Jesus as divine.  David could only call the Christ Lord if the Lord were the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity in which we live and move and have our being.  Divine nature calls forth each of us in His Love.  In this reality we all call Jesus, our Lord.  In the human nature given to him through the womb of our Lady He receives the title "Son of David".  

Today the modernist will call Him Son of David and neglect His Divine nature.  In this the absolute Truth of divine love is curtailed.  If Jesus is not the second Person of the Blessed Trinity then divine love is absent and the absolute truth of His teaching is negated.  Therefore, truth becomes subject to culture and culture is god.  This is our battle in the resistance:  to bring the people back to the Sacred, to bring the people back to divine love.  Oh, may the hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph crush the errors of the secularist and turn our minds, hearts and souls back to the Sacred Love of God.

In the hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph,

Fr. Richard Voigt

  

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