…The Love of God, …
- F M SHYANGUYA
- Mar 23, 2023
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Updated: Jul 21
The Love of God. [1]
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Q. Why did God make you?
A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him for ever in heaven.[2]
Wait…there is more…
God said, ‘let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild beasts and all the reptiles that crawl upon the earth’.
God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.
God blessed them saying to them, ‘Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and conquer it. Be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven and all living animals on earth.’…And so it was. God saw all he had made, and indeed it was very good. Evening came and morning came: the sixth day.[3]
2. Yes, God so loved the world so much
that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life.[4]
3. The proof that you are sons is that God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts: the Spirit that cries, ‘Abba, Father’, and it is this that makes you a son, you are not a slave any more; and if God has made you a son , then he has made you heir.[5]
4. Jesus said to his disciples:
"As the Father loves me, so I also love you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father's commandments
and remain in his love.
"I have told you this so that my joy might be in you
and your joy might be complete.
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
No one has greater love than this,
to lay down one's life for one's friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves,
because a slave does not know what his master is doing.
I have called you friends,
because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you
and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain,
so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
This I command you: love one another."[6]
5 For your Maker is your husband,
the Lord of hosts is his name;
and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,
the God of the whole earth he is called.
6 For the Lord has called you
like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
like a wife of youth when she is cast off,
says your God.
7 For a brief moment I forsook you,
but with great compassion I will gather you.
8 In overflowing wrath for a moment
I hid my face from you,
but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,
says the Lord, your Redeemer.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
38 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In summary:
God made us through God for God, the God through whom the world might be saved and this God sends us God (Altissimum donum Dei), another advocate, from God to conform us into the image of God by whom we will come to God.[7]
His Mother, our Mother…[8]
…be transformed into what we consume,[9]
Ah!…the love of God!
ut amares in nobis quod diligebas in Filio
[1] The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. – GREETING, The Introductory Rites, THE ORDER OF MASS.
[3] Cf. Gn1:26-31 (RSVCE)
[4] Jn3:16 and ‘Since God did not spare his own Son, but gave him up to benefit us all, we may be certain, after such a gift, that he will not refuse anything he can give.’ (Cf. A hymn to God’s love Rm8:31-37)
[6] Gospel, Friday, July 18, 2025, Optional Memorial of Saint Camillus de Lellis, Priest [In the Dioceses of the United States]
[7] Without any doubt, the mystery of our religion is very deep indeed (Cf. 1Tm3:14-16) and Even angels long to catch a glimpse of these things. (Cf. 1P1:12)
[8] John 19:26-27: 26 When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.[took her to his own home: Joseph must now have been dead.]
Though father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me (Ps27:10)
[9] Cf. PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time.
[10] Cf. PREFACE VII OF THE SUNDAYS IN ORDINARY TIME Salvation through the obedience of Christ
Links to RSVCE
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