LOVE AND HIS PEOPLE
(a very short catechism)
Love is constructive; hate is destructive.
Absolute love is absolutely constructive.
Love is the Creator of all things.
Love is One. Love is Omnipotent.
Love is God.
God is Love.
God/Love made humans.
God/Love loves humans.
God/Love lovingly made humans.
God/Love made humans to share in His life of love.
Love cannot be constrained; cannot be commanded.
God made humans free to love or not to love Him.
The first humans transgressed the law of Love.
God was slighted.
Evil came into the world.
Love was affronted.
Love wants to forgive.
The affront is of the measure of the affronted.
Only God can redeem an affront to God.
God sent His only Son, Jesus, as God, to repair the affront.
Jesus is Love
As a human, Jesus repaired the affront in the name of humans.
Now humans can be redeemed, provided they become people of Love.
People of Love worship Love as Jesus/Love taught them.
People of Love have to live for a time with Evil.
How they deal with evil, people of Love show Love.
People of Love want to show Love they are His People.
People of Love want to protect those they Love from Evil.
Sacrificing for Love is the happy choice of people of Love,
As the God of Love sacrificed Himself for His people.
The Cross– the absolute Sacrifice – is the Sign of the true life of the people of Love.
People of Love accept their Crosses for the sake of Love.
The God of Love makes all crosses bearable to people of Love.
God/Love wants people of Love to trust Him through their sacrifice.
God/Love will provide.
God/Love will console.
God/Love will protect.
People of Love trust the providence of Love, the consolation of Love, the protection of Love.
People of Love trust Love even as they struggle with their evil within.
They do not stop asking Love to hone their sensibilities in finding the ways of Love in all they do.
Love can never be forced; Free will, the only gift to use as People of Love see fit.
People of Love thirst to enter the world of absolute Love.
Dr. Jean-Francois Orsini, OP