In this
heart-provoking and enlightening sharing of the Word of God, “DOES GOD'S LOVE
ABIDE IN YOU?” by Rev. Fr. Augustine Vallooran V.C., Director of Divine Retreat
Centre Muringoor, Kerala, India, we are challenged to examine our hearts - do we really love Jesus? How do we live our
love for Christ?
“In the month of
June, all of us think of the ‘Heart” because we celebrate the Feast of the
Heart of Jesus during this month. There is a whole devotion to the Heart of
Jesus. We consecrate our families to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This devotion
has deep roots in the Scriptures. St. John tells us in 1 John 4:16, ‘God is
Love’. As we know, the heart is the
symbol of love. ‘God is love and he who abides in love abides in God.’”
“An experience
of love is where God is present. When I love, I am in touch with God God’s Love
is manifested to me to fill my heart – to satisfy my life.” St. John said,
“Beloved. If God so loved us, we ought
to love one another.’ (1 John 4:11) God’s Love in our hearts should lead us to
love others.”
“If my heart
does not go out of me to help that person. Then how do I experience God’s Love?
If there is God’s Love in my heart, it will take ‘flesh’ in loving others. That
is the ESSENCE of Christianity revealed to us! What is religion? How do I
experience my faith and my commitment to God? It is by being compassionate to
the poor and the needy. It is there I know I am so filled with God’s Love that
it overflows to those in need. ‘So faith by itself, if it has no works, is
dead.’ (James 2:17)”
“One could fly
high in prayer and contemplation; one could feel the nearness of God; one could
feel the great zeal for God’s Glory. Yet if his feet are not fixed in the midst
of the poor and the needy, his faith is of no good. A love of God that does not care for the
needy brethren is no love at all.”
Divine Retreat
Centre, Kerala, India, run by the priests of the Vincentian Congregation of
India, is the largest Catholic retreat centre in the world. Retreats in English
and 6 Indian languages are conducted every week of the year.
LIVING WATERS is
a 30-minute daily Divine TV programme of anointed sharing of God's Word by Rev.
Fr. Augustine Vallooran V.C,
DIVINE
TELEVISION (UK/Europe & Middle East) Is known as GOODNESS Channel in India
& Asia-Pacific and as DVN Network in USA/Canada.
It can also be
viewed worldwide ONLINE at www.dvnonline.org
