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Tuesday after Epiphany
St. Luke’s Institute
January 6, 2015
FOCOLARE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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The Focolare Movement is an international organization that promotes
the ideals of unity and universal brotherhood
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While primarily Roman Catholic,
it now has strong links to the major Christian denominations,
other religions, or with the
non-religious
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Focolare operates is in 182
nations and has over 100,000 adherents
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The Movement's name comes from
the Italian word for “hearth” or “family fireside”
“DO” OR “BE” FOR
LOVE +++++++++++++++++++++++
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Chiara
Lubich taught that there are those who “DO
things for love”
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&
there R those who do things trying “to BE
love”
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Those
who do things “4 love” may do them
well, but, thinking they’re doing service 4 neighbor, who may B sick or in
need, may actually annoy them w/ chatter, advice, & so-called “help”
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Such
“charity” can B burdensome & inappropriate
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True,
such folks may gain merit, but the other is left with a burden
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This
is why it is necessary to “BE love”
“BE-ING” LIKE THE
PLANETS ++++++++++++++++++++
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Our
destiny’s been likened to that of the planets
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If
they revolve around the sun, there are
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If
they do not revolve around the sun, they’re not
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We
ARE, in the sense that life of God, not our life, lives in us, if we don’t stop
loving for 1 moment
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Being
love places us in God and God is Love as we are told in our first reading
CONCLUSION
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Ø With this understanding of being and the metaphor of the planets,
the reading hits home
Ø “Beloved, let us love 1 another,
becz love is of God
Ø Everyone who loves is
begotten by G & knows G
Ø Whoever is w/o love doesn’t
know G, 4 G is love”
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