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Faith Works only by True Love

Faith without love towards your neighbour is like the earth that absorbs the rain of the heaven but holds it in without allowing it to come outside as a spring. Faith without love is like a burning log that does not produce heat. Is your love also like this?

Let Us Take Care for One Another

A rightful person will never fight for his own benefit but for the life of his neighbour.

He who sows slander collects judgement

You will not be able to collect any words that you scatter every moment through your tongue, nor turn back your bad speech and the gossip on your neighbours.

Can we do harm even when we only want to help?

If he gives you his arm and you cannot pull him out, he will drag you down and both of you will die. 

Love with all your heart and you will know what true joy is!

When you think this way, when you become one with this idea, it is impossible for you not to love God and not to be happy to abide the commandments, as you can. The same is with the love of your neighbour. When you love you are happy, it brings you joy.

Love is present in the smallest things

Love is present in all the bodily gestures, when, serving God the body is filled with spiritual fruits, when man raises his hands towards God for charity and partaking, when he directs his steps toward the house of mourning and weeping climbing towards the house of prayer.

You don’t get to heaven on your own but living in communion

Loneliness isolates you, makes you helpless, and prevents your spirit to enjoy the good things of this world, especially those of the spiritual world, while life in community saves you from many difficult situations. Nobody achieves salvation on their own, not even the monks, or priests or good Christians. All of us achieve salvation in community, in the bosom of Christ’s Church and we all are responsible of the others.

If you don’t love everybody you don’t love enough

In love we need to love everybody, same as God loves us the way we are, despite our sinful condition.