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Love One Another As I Have Loved You
Topic Started: Sunday, 13. May 2012, 12:02 (71 Views)
Mairtin
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Listening to readings today about Love, it seems to me that a lack of love may be the fundamental problem in our Church. On one side we have a group who are utterly convinced that things in the Church overall were fine before Vatican II, that the Council was nothing less than the work of the devil and that rolling back the disastrous changes that were made is the most important task facing the Church today.

On the other side, we have a group who utterly believe that the Church has been in a mess since long before Vatican II and the only thing disastrous is that the changes agreed at the Council have not been fully implemented.

What strikes me is the lack of tolerance, each side seems to regard it as a battle for the very soul of the Church and will settle for nothing less than total victory which seems to me the very antithesis of Christ’s message. Where is the “loving each other” bit that Jesus and John make clear today to be real heart and soul of that message? If each side could pause to think about the other side with true Christian love then might we actually all find what Jesus actually gave us?
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PJD

At yesterday's homily the priest concentrated on the equal importance of 'love of self''. Interesting comparative perception. He attacked lack of self esteem/self worth as lacking in love - in the general sense - and dwelt on this aspect to the exclusion mostly of the normal approaches to the subject.

PJD
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Mairtin
Sunday, 13. May 2012, 12:02
What strikes me is the lack of tolerance, each side seems to regard it as a battle for the very soul of the Church and will settle for nothing less than total victory which seems to me the very antithesis of Christ’s message. Where is the “loving each other” bit that Jesus and John make clear today to be real heart and soul of that message? If each side could pause to think about the other side with true Christian love then might we actually all find what Jesus actually gave us?
Mairtin I am pleased to see the issue raised.

Three words in your post, "battle" and "victory" and one phrase "each side" get to the heart of the problem. There is room in the church for all God's children. We need patience, understanding and tolerance.
Keep the Faith!

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Gerard

Look to the top.
Who forbade the old Mass?
Who forbids the 1973 Mass?

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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