When Jesus says: “Make your home in me as I make mine in you,” he offers us an intimate place that we can truly call “home.” Home is that place or space where we do not have to be afraid but can let go of our defenses and be free, free from worries, free from tensions, free from pressures. Home is where we can laugh and cry, embrace and dance, sleep long and dream quietly, eat, read, play, watch the fire, listen to music, and be with a friend. Home is where we can rest and be healed. The word “home” gathers a wide range of feelings and emotions up into one image, the image of a house where it is good to be: the house of love
To allow knowledge to roll off the tongue. Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ. We cannot have an interior discrepancy between our faith, our professional work and even our hobby. To build up our great reserve through spiritual reading. Ngosticism - knowledge that saves. It isn't knowledge that save, but love. But love need knowledge to go deeper. The pace of spiritual reading - faster for those we know, slower if it's foreign territory. All the spiritual readings we do help us to see the bigger puzzle.
Certainly, Jesus is far from being insensitive to the frailty of the feelings that distort the meaning of love, particularly the fact of adultery, of infidelity, of jealousy and lying. But he never approves sin or consents to it. When he gets to a person’s heart, Jesus descends with him into the depths of the truth, he renews the person and reorients him along the lines of the evangelical demands of love, and he saves the person. Spouses, therefore, need to understand and to receive this Divine Mercy, which renews their bonds of fidelity in the sacrament of marriage.
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