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From the Pastor's Desk: Love Requires a Relationship

6/13/2025

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​For a reason we don't know, God is three persons who have an eternal relationship with each other.  Jesus shows us the Father by praying to Him and, and the Holy Spirit by sending Him at Pentecost.  
 
God the Father creates, God the Son redeems, God the Holy Spirit sanctifies.  This is God's mission: redeem His creation when we sinned and to make us holy.
 
We continue the work of God by loving as God does as disciples.  
 
To do this, God brings us into His family.  The sharing of his love begins with our baptism.  We are baptized "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."  .
 
In our life. we come to know the love of the God through the love of our parents first.  Our fathers teach us God the Father's love.  Our mother's love teaches us our Blessed Mother's love, the Queen of Heaven and Mother to all of us.  The home we have here, prepares for the dwelling of God forever.
 
Parents help their children know the love of God by how they love their children.  Said another way, children learn the love of God by the love they receive from their parents.  
 
This means that the family becomes the image of God love.  Father, Mother, and children reflect the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  God has chosen the sacrament of marriage and the family to be the reflection of his love in the world.  
 
The Love of God is at the very center of our life.  St. Paul reminds us these qualities of love in the letter to the Corinthians:

Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, is not pompous,
it is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
 
Love never fails.   

This week, parents teach your children to love as God loves.  You know His love already. The love with which you love your children is the same love that God loves us.  God has given you a gift to know His love.  Show them God's love.
 
In Christ,
Fr. Brian 
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