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What is Love?

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What is Love?

What is love? Love can only be shown or revealed when we comfort those in sorrow. We must do this in the name of Jesus with the purpose of imitating Him. We are required to use the three powers of our soul, the memory, understanding, and will. And we must be like a clean animal, the deer and climb the heights. All other feelings called love are actually dopamine releases. Such feelings are in fact using the five smaller gates to the soul, our eyes, ears, taste, smell and touch.

A very important part of God's plan is suffering. Suffering is necessary to experience love. Love means to comfort those who suffer.No suffering, no opportunity to experience love.

Give this some deep thought. Love and suffering can't be separated. Without suffering, no opportunity to show love.

Saint Paul wrote the following:

2 Cor 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

1:4 who (who is referring to Jesus) comforts us in all our affliction,so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction,with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

How did Jesus love us? The answer is found in the above verse when Saint Paul says "who comforts us in all our affliction".2 Cor (1:4) How did Jesus comfort us in all our afflictions? Jesus "tasted death" by experiencing the total sum of all sorrows. He felt every sorrow as if He was experiencing each man's pain. This included the suicidal depressions of all men who failed their Final Tests. This massive amount of sorrow was experienced by Jesus when He was hanging from the Cross at noon to 3:00 PM on Good Friday.

Heb 2:9But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the Angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God He (Jesus) might taste deathfor every one.

"Tasting death" means that Jesus experienced the same suicidal depressions of every soul that failed their Final Tests. Jesus was tempted with suicidal depression because he felt the massive mountain of depression. We must study and contemplate Jesus Passion. The reason why we do this is so "we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God".2 Cor (1:4)

The 144,000 will be like stars in the night sky to comfort us as we walk through the "valley of death"; this will occur at our Final Tests. Our salvation will come from our appreciation of Jesus "tasting death". (Salvation means to escape the suicidal depressions that will happen to all of us at our Final Tests.) Do we appreciate how Jesus experienced the sorrows of every soul that has ever lived?Understand the warning and be not like the damned who have no appreciation for Jesus Passion. Jesus "tasted death" and the damned will not appreciate His passion. The question must be asked, how do we learn to appreciate Jesus Passion? We must study His Passion and comfort others who are in sorrow. In other words, we must love others in the way Jesus loved us.

Jn 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

13:35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Let's review how Jesus loved us. Jesus loved us by "tasting death". He experienced the suicidal emotions of the damned. If we appreciate how Jesus experienced the sorrows of every person, we must show our appreciation by comforting others who are suffering. If we repeat again and again our ability to comfort those who are suffering, we will experience the emotions of charity, compassion and mercy. These emotionsare uncreated and are found in God. An example of created emotions are the seven deadly emotions. (Arrogance, envy, anger, spiritual laziness, lust, excessive wealth and pleasure.)

So why is Jesus called our Redeemer? The answer is that He paid our ransom. The term "ransom" is associated with a price or payment made to someone who is holding another captive. In this case, the price paid is the sufferings of Jesus by experiencing the depressions of the damned and the sorrows of the elect. Jesus freed us from the sorrows of depression by giving us a reason to live forever. His Blood causes intoxication in the hearts of all those that appreciate how He experienced the sorrows of mankind.

Let's combine the verses below to prove this definition of "love". (Love means to comfort those who are suffering.) In the Gospel of John, Jesus says if we love Him, we will keep His commandments.

Jn 14:15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Saint Peter reveals in his Epistle how we can stop sinning.

Pet 4:1 Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same thought, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.

By suffering in the flesh we are told, by Peter, we will cease sinning. If we stop sinning, we will keep His command-ments. In other words (By combining the verses above.) love means to suffer in the flesh. There will be protesters called protestants who will say it not possible to obey God's commandments. That we are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God. Rom (3:23) Such people will never talk about how Jesus called us to be perfect.

Mt 5:43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

5:45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

5:47 And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

5:48 You, therefore, must be perfect,as your heavenly Father is perfect.

The question is this, how hard is it to become perfect? Or how hard is it to obey God's commandments? And finally, how hard is it to love Jesus and suffer in the flesh? The answer on how to accomplish all the above questions is through a "journey". This journey pertains to our souls. (memory, understanding and heart.) Reading one lesson on perfection will not make us perfect. But rather a life long journey of using our memories, understandings and hearts will allow us to move closer to perfection. But do not forget, we must also climb the heights like the deer and gather the pearls of great price. All of us must be "clean animals" climbing the heights and contemplating spiritual things.

Up to now, no one even knew Jesus "tasted death" by experiencing the total sorrows of mankind. This makes it impossible to understand "suffer in the flesh" as Peter recommends. "Suffer in the flesh" requires we know that Jesus was tempted with suicidal depression because He experienced the sorrows of mankind. In other words, it's a difficult task to appreciate Jesus compassion for us when we do not know about His compassion.

Love has two parts:

1) To comfort those who are suffering like feeding the hungry or helping the sick.

2) To offer Jesus' sorrowful passion to the Father in order to plead on behalf of sinners. This is called suffering in the flesh.

The following are ways to suffer in the flesh.

1) The Mass

2) The Stations of the Cross.

3) Chaplet of Divine Mercy (Saint Faustina)

4) Rosary

The above can be called graces from God. These graces train us to "suffer in the flesh." Repeating again, "suffer in the flesh" is to offer Jesus Passion to the Father to have mercy on sinners. We need the three powers of our soul, memory, understanding and will to "suffer in the flesh". Our journey or goal is to learn to appreciate Jesus passion.

Jesus said the following:

Jn 15:13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down His life for His friends.

Another way to say "lay down His life" is to say "tasted death". This verse is speaking about Jesus and how He took upon Himself the sorrows of all men. We can't experience another man's sorrows directly as if it was happening to us; however we can intercede on their behalf by offering the sorrows of Jesus to the Father. Or we can comfort those who are suffering with charitable acts of mercy like feeding the poor.

The Bible uses the word "love" hundreds of times. In the Book of Corinthians, saint Paul defines love by writing.

1 Cor 13:4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;

13:5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

13:6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

13:7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

13:8 Love never ends;as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

13:9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;

13:10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.

13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasonedlike a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

13:13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

If we make others suffer, we do not know or understand love. That is why Paul wrote as he did in the above verses. Paul is writing on how not to make others suffer.

Again it must be said, our purpose on earth is to be on a journey using our soul (memory, understanding and will.) The purpose of our journey is to learn and appreciate Jesus passion. We can only know love in two different ways. We can "suffer in the flesh" by offering Jesus most sorrowful passion. Or we can comfort those who are suffering.

God the Father spoke to Saint Catherine about good works.

God the Father said to Catherine that good works done by a person that is living in deadly sin will not profit that person for eternal life.

From section 46 of the "Dialogue", God the Father says the following:

Because they know neither Me nor themselves, they do not hate their selfish sensuality. No, they even love it. And in seeking to satisfy their appetite, they give birth to dead children, that is, to a host of deadly sins. But Me they do not love. And because they do not love Me they do not love their neighbors, whom I love. They take no pleasure in doing what pleases Me, that is, the practice of true and solid virtue. It is not for My own good that I am pleased when I see such virtue in you. You can be of no profit to Me because I am who I am and nothing is done without Me except sin.

And sin isnothing, because it deprives the soul of Me who am every good when it robs her of grace. So it is to your own profit to please Me, for I have everlasting life to reward you in Myself.

But the faith of these souls is dead, you see, because it is not carried out in action. Whatever they do profits them nothing for eternal life, for they do not have the life of grace. Still, good works should not be abandoned either with grace or without, because every good is rewarded and every sin is punished. The good that is done in grace (without deadly sin) is of value for eternal life. But the good that is done with the guilt of deadly sin is worth nothing for eternal life. Nevertheless, it is rewarded in other ways, as I told you earlier. Sometimes I lend them time, or I put them into My servants' hearts and because of their constant prayers they escape from their sin and wretchedness.

Sometimes they are not open to receive either time or prayer as a way to grace. Such as these I reward with material goods, treating them like animals one fattens before leading them to slaughter. Such as these have always resisted every approach of My goodness. They do some good, however though not in grace, as I said, but in sin. They were unwilling in these actions of theirs to receive either time or prayer or any of the other ways in which I called to them. But My goodness wants to reward them nonetheless for those actions, for this bit of service they have rendered. So while I reproach them for their sins, I reward them with material things. This makes them grow fat; but if they do not change their ways they will end in eternal punishment.

The paragraphs above are a warning to us when we do charitable works for the poor and sick, we must do them in the name of Jesus using the three powers of our soul. In addition we must be clean animals like the deer climbing the heights. What does this mean you ask? The simple answer is this, we must have a cheerful heart in the name of Jesus when we love others.

Now that you are aware that charitable acts are no value for salvation if done while in deadly sin, you will see examples of this. For instance if a famous celebrity were to help the poor in Haiti and you know he is not religious but rather he is very worldly, know that his good works will not save him at his Final Test. Other examples also include those who say they are religious or even Catholic priests and nuns. A persons sins will destroy charitable works in the eyes of God.

Charity For Others Is Drawn From God’s Charity.

From section 89 of the "Dialogue", God the Father says the following:

It is therefore essential that the soul be constant in her charity for her neighbors and in true knowledge of herself. In this way she will feed the flame of My charity within her, because charity for others is drawn from My charity, that is, from the knowledge the soul gained by coming to know herself and My goodness to her, which made her see that I love her unspeakably much. So she loves every person with the same love she sees herself loved with, and this is why the soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors. Because she sees that I love them even more than she does, she also loves them unspeakably much.

Since she has learned that she can be of no profit to Me, nor return to Me the same pure love with which she feels herself loved by Me, she sets herself to repaying My love through the means I established- her neighbors. They are the ones to whom you must be of service, just as I told you that every virtue is realized through your neighbors. I have given you these to serve, everyone, both in general and individually, according to the different graces you receive from Me. You must love with the same pure love with which I love you. But you cannot do this for Me because I love you without being loved and without any self-interest. And because I loved you without being loved by you, even before you existed (in fact it was love that moved Me to create you in My own image and likeness) you cannot repay Me. But you must give this love to other people, loving them without being loved by them.

We Must Love Others Without Any Concern For Our Own Spiritual Or Material Profit.

You must love them without any concern for your own spiritual or material profit, but only for the glory and praise of My Name, because I love them. In this way you will fulfill the whole Commandment of the Law, which is to love Me above all things and your neighbor as your very self.

From section 7 of the "Dialogue", God the Father says the following:

The soul in love with My truth never ceases doing service for all the world, universally and in particular, in proportion to her own burning desire and to the emotional response of those who receive. Her loving charity benefits herself first of all, as I have told you, when she conceives that virtue from which she draws the life of grace. Blessed with this unifying love she reaches out in loving charity to the whole world's need for salvation. But beyond a general love for all people she sets her eye on the specific needs of her neighbors and comes to the aid of those nearest her according to the graces I have given her for ministry. Some she teaches by word, giving sincere and impartial counsel; others she teaches by her example as everyone ought to, enlightening her neighbors by her good, holy, honorable life. These are the virtues, with many others, that are brought to birth in love of neighbor.