Christian ID Card Love

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Reflection on Easter 5th Year C2

Have you ever wondered why Christianity is incomplete, imperfect? Why has the whole world not been converted when faith is so beautiful and true? What’s wrong with your Christianity? Why don’t you burn and light everyone around you?

I am not asking this question to provoke remorse or to look for the proverbial hole in the whole … Jesus puts a stick into the anthill in today’s Gospel, invoking the heart of the Gospel and faith: Mutual love. By this they will know that you are mine. Christian ID Card Love. Mutual love is a passport to Heaven … Maybe it’s time to really take care of it? Maybe it’s time to stop pretending and playing the believer? Either you love or … There is no third way, such a light version … I mean either you are His and you live in Him, or it’s just playing something that is a caricature, a monster of faith.

I guess that’s why the madman of God Francis cried out: “Love is not loved!” And, taking the Gospel seriously, he kissed the leper to shout “I’m not afraid anymore, I’m free!”

It is not about spiritual murder or decalogue terrorism, but about the truth of life, about compliance with the Gospel.

You don’t have to kiss the leper, but you have to kiss your mother, the brother you haven’t talked to for years. And everything is fine, but it’s not faith anymore, but spitting in his face … a salon, with a smile, in white gloves.

You don’t have to run in the woods and shout “love is not loved,” but smile kindly at the beggar in front of your church. Without prejudice, without being just bored, that he is a drunkard, a cheat or something else …

You don’t have to pin your chest on the image of the Mother of God or wear the banner of Christ the King, but stop snarling at your spouse or your employee.

If we start to take Jesus seriously, everything will change. Then the idiotic discussions of liberals and conservatives about the pope, liturgy and refugees will end. There will be no more discussions about divorced and communion, homosexuals, politicians … because the only meaningful question will be if I love and how to love. The glasses of Evangelical love allow us to see Him in everything and in everyone. And then the Catholic venom will be over and the rosaries will be used for prayer, not for clamping them angrily and beating unbelievers or others in the name of the truth.

Are you saying that an unrealizable ideal? Try it, start now.

First, look lovingly at the sinner you are! Look at yourself with tenderness and love what is impossible to love humanly. Love your weakness, imperfection, sin… No, I’m not exaggerating. Jesus is sensitive to my sin, because everything, everything is an occasion to love. It is a paradox of Christianity – it transforms everything into good and an opportunity to say: I love! Take your time, look at your life, your today, also wounded and dug up by life, with the tenderness of a Nazarene. And say to yourself (lest others see): I’m a good person, I love myself!

Now take courage – if you are good, so do others! Look at the people you don’t like, at those who hurt you, forsaken you … No, no … one more time – put on your evangelical prayer glasses, Eucharist. It’s the peak of love … Doesn’t it come out? Take your time, take the Gospel in your hand, go to adoration … After all, love is not your effort, but His grace …

Look with love at the nosy neighbor, the lump who makes him stink of denatured alcohol, the politician you hate, the screaming pimple middle school student, the refugee, the homo, the thief. After all, love is for everyone … Instead of venom love and kindness … Instead of changing the whole world, change yourself. After all, you do not have to convert everyone, but enlighten the way with your love so that others will see it more clearly.

Take courage! Take up the challenge, set out on the path of love! You will not change and save the world, but you will see – everything will be different. This is not an ideal and a fantasy, it is a Christian’s ID card. Become one today, over and over again! Take courage!