00:00Hello dear brother, how are you, dear sister? It's so nice to greet you again.
00:26Since God in Christ Jesus offers us abundant life, this life, as we have said, is manifested
00:34in our daily lives, that's why in our next catechesis we will see some of the elements that
00:41They come to us from this new life, let's begin today with the most important thing: love, the first thing we must know
00:49Love is not something human, but divine, since its origin and source are found in God himself.
00:57We see this in the first letter of the apostle Saint John; all the baptized have it, as Saint Paul said.
01:04It says that this love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit we have received
01:10When man unites with God through Jesus, things begin to circulate, as we already said; he begins to
01:18circulate through him the current of God's love; this love has wonderful characteristics such as
01:25The apostle Paul shows us this in his first letter to the Corinthians, where he tells us that
01:31Love believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things; true love never fails. With this love...
01:39Jesus, the divine one, loved us and did so to show us how to live it, how to receive it, how to enjoy it, and how
01:47He who enters into the mystery of abundant life understands that he can communicate it to others.
01:54God loves him like a loving and perfect father who loves us with infinite tenderness and gentleness and
02:03This love is experienced by the soul and it makes it feel loved and redeemed; from this is born in the Christian
02:11the impulse to love as Christ loved us, to give oneself to others to the extreme
02:17Therefore, as man draws closer to God, who is the source of love in that
02:25The degree to which one is able to love is measured; conversely, the degree to which one distances oneself from him grows in the
02:33Man, selfishness, and he becomes more like irrational beings, which explains why the
02:40Modern society, which has rejected God, behaves in a selfish and irrational way; we can see this in
02:48Christ said that love is not something ethereal outside of this world or something that is only felt in the heart, not the
02:57Love is something that manifests itself, that is noticeable. Jesus gave us proof of this, for he did not only come to tell us
03:05that he loved us, but gave us compelling proof of his great love for us, the people of his time.
03:13Jesus, like many of us, intended to ignore this, and so he told them a parable in which he showed us
03:20It reveals that love is something concrete related to the other person; therefore, if we really want to know
03:29Who loves us? Just look at who cares about us and is interested in us, just as if we were.
03:37We want to know who we love; it's enough to see who we show interest in and care about. This is the action.
03:45of the spirit that, to the extent we allow it to operate and nurture it, we will see that love in
03:52We transform and grow, starting with a love very mixed with selfishness, which is loving the other as oneself
04:01We could call it reciprocal love, however, as it grows it leads us to love the
04:09Furthermore, I love God with all my heart, and we can call it attractive love if we continue to develop it.
04:19In the spiritual life we will see that this love is transformed into a love similar to that which God has.
04:25towards us a self-sacrificing love that sacrifices itself for the beloved even to the point of giving its own life and expression
04:34The ultimate goal of love is to love as God loves himself, which would be to reach unitive love where
04:42All things are one in God if you allow spiritual life to develop within you.
04:53Sainthood will lead you to love fully all those who live with you; encourage yourself to a life deeply
05:01As always, I invite you to delve deeper and expand upon what we have seen in our course today.
05:07fundamental evangelization on our evangelization page www.evangelization.
05:13Okay, I'll see you tomorrow to continue our study of Jesus with the topic of freedom as
05:21A gift of abundant life, receive my blessing until tomorrow.
05:26Okay, I'll see you tomorrow.
