When we reach the pearly gates of heaven, do you know what question will be asked of us?
Fr Alan said, there would be only ONE question: "How did you love?"
In the Gospel on the 22nd Sunday of OT [last Sunday's Gospel] Jesus asked us to invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind to our party as they cannot repay back our hospitality. So we are invited to be generous with what we have. This is a form of love.
This Sunday's Gospel [23rd Sunday], Jesus asks us to give up ALL our possessions. "To give up" is similar to being free with our possessions and we are therefore able to share with others what have been given to us. This is also a form of love.
So, from these Gospel readings, we could see one way to love is to be generous to others by sharing with others what we have and to give without expecting anything back in return.
If in front of these, you are bankrupt, because you are unable to give or share what God has given you, then do not worry because only God can make a miracle and help us to go beyond ourselves and be generous to others.
We have to be generous to God, to others and ourselves.
Pope Francis is now wanting to make care of the environment as one of the acts of mercy, and therefore we have to love our environment too and of course we have to be like St Francis and love ALL of God's creatures.
Almighty Father, we know you love us very much. Please give us your Holy Spirit so we can love You, love others, love our mother earth, love the Church, love ourselves and most importantly love the least of all your creatures. Amen.
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