THE VIRTUE OF LOVE

 

TRUE LOVE

BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS OTHERS

LOVE

THE RIGHT PERSON

LOVE

 “Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.”..1 John 3:18

CHRIST LOVES US

HUMILITY AND LOVE

LOVE AND HATE

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO REAP?

LOVE OF CHRIST

IMMENSITY OF THE LOVE OF JESUS

LENT - LOVE

LOVE

WHAT LOVE WILL DO

ARE WE READY?

Jesus called his first disciples, who simply got up from their daily tasks and followed him. 

They accept God’s invitation and spend their lives aligning themselves with God’s will. 

They go as they are and let God lead them. 

They “fall in love” and this is what decides everything - for falling in love always includes both joy and suffering. 

Are we ready? 

WE BECOME WHAT WE LOVE

WHAT SHOULD BE EVERYONE'S RESOLUTION

ST STEPHEN THE FIRST MARTYR - FEASTDAY 26TH DECEMBER

Stephen’s name means “crown,” and he was the first disciple of Jesus to receive the martyr’s crown. Stephen was a deacon in the early Christian Church. The apostles had found that they needed helpers to look after the care of the widows and the poor. So they ordained seven deacons, and Stephen is the most famous of these.
God worked many miracles through St. Stephen and he spoke with such wisdom and grace that many of his hearers became followers of Jesus. 

The enemies of the Church of Jesus were furious to see how successful Stephen’s preaching was. At last, they laid a plot for him. They could not answer his wise argument, so they got men to lie about him, saying that he had spoken sinfully against God. St. Stephen faced that great assembly of enemies without fear. In fact, the Holy Bible says that his face looked like the face of an angel. 

He then claimed that his persecutors were showing this same spirit. “You always oppose the holy Spirit; you are just like your ancestors” (Acts 7:51b).


His speech brought anger from the crowd. “But [Stephen], filled with the holy Spirit, looked up intently to heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and he said, ‘Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God….’ They threw him out of the city, and began to stone him…. As they were stoning Stephen, he called out, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit…. Lord, do not hold this sin against them’

JESUS IS BORN TO PROMOTE LOVE

HE HAS COME INTO THE WORLD TO PROMOTE LOVE.