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Retreat for SMSU 1st
Theologians
January 5, 2107
Jesuit Retreat Center
THE LIMITS TO LOVE? NONE! +++++++++++++++++
Ø It’s not enough to limit your love to
your own nation, own race, own tribe or group
Ø You must respond with love even to
those outside of it…
Ø Respond with love to those who hate
you
ROOTS OF HATRED +++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø It’s a message the
followers of Jesus have heard from the beginning…
Ø “that we should love one another”
Ø John then explains
our love must be unlike Cain’s who belonged to the Evil One
and slaughtered his brother
and slaughtered his brother
Ø Cain slaughtered
him because Cain’s own works were evil
A NEW IMPERATIVE
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø This call to love even enemies enables
us to live together not as political parties, states, or nations, but as common
members of the human race
Ø In this New Year of 2017 we have
arrived at the stage of history where we will either take this step or perish
Ø For we have learned with consummate
skill to destroy the entire human race
Ø We have learned how to efficiently
annihilate all of mankind
Ø Yet, for some reason we shrink with
horror from the prospect, not of annihilation, but of reconciliation
Ø We will either be reconciled — that
is, we shall love one another — or we shall perish!
CONCLUSION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø With this New
Year, let us love not in word or speech, but rather love in deed and truth
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