tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post6595331867744768727..comments2023-07-05T08:17:21.505-04:00Comments on Getting to the Point: Love or a Battlefield?Fr. Denis Lemieuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-70797277596245748822012-11-24T11:40:41.580-05:002012-11-24T11:40:41.580-05:00Thanks for the reflections and comments. God is Lo...Thanks for the reflections and comments. God is Love. We are his unruly children. Everyday we pray for God's Kingdom here on earth when we pray the Our Father---and it is ---when His will is done on earth as it is in heaven...so let us love, forgive, love, forgive....daily. Jesus, may we all be one. Inspire our leaders to look to You for peaceful solutions. Have mercy on us, O Lord. All power and glory to YOU King of kings!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-26695537250993768872012-11-24T10:16:10.303-05:002012-11-24T10:16:10.303-05:00Father Denis,
It has always puzzled me that the ...Father Denis,<br /> It has always puzzled me that the church saves this great feast: Christ the King, for the very last Sunday of the year.<br /> I mean, we are all trying all the time to let Jesus be our King and our leader, to make his kingdom our government. There is no one, has been no one , like Jesus, no person, no political power that can match him-even for just integrity and truth.<br /> Like you, I want to be first and foremost a citizen of the Kingdom of God. To pledge my allegiance to that kingdom, to do what he says, obey Jesus. I think all of us really want that: to be focused on Jesus and to be present with him in his kingdom of love and peace. We are all trying to get there.<br /> The dramatic moment in the gospel for tomorrows feast- comes after his arrest and torture when Jesus is standing before Pilate and condemned to death. In a few hours he will be executed and he knows it. Jesus declares then in total vulnerability that his kingdom is not of this world. That it is completely different from this world - does not operate like the US or Canada or Rome. So how is it different, I ask myself?<br /> If my kingdom did belong to this world, he says, my attendants would fighting to keep me from being handed over. That's the difference. There is no fighting. <br /> What are the attendants to do then?<br /> We live in relationship to him, serve his needs. We open ourselves, as much as we can. We don't wait until we have sorted our feelings from our emotions or organized our thoughts or emotional baggage. We just turn to him.<br /> We just go to him...because like you said...we can't live without him.<br /> so my prayer is that we will all be good attendants for Jesus. That got me praying about the Kingdom of God. Imagine. No fighting among us ever again. We never hurt another human being ever again.we never do violence to ourselves, our children, our spouses, our friends, our parents, our siblings, those around us. No more domestic violence, no incest, no one ever supports violence anywhere. We will all be people of God for the rest of our lives. Imagine.Catherinenoreply@blogger.com