Every morning we wake up and feel we are breathing because God loves us, - the Head of the UGCC

Monday, 01 November 2021, 21:28

God loves me. I can live and share life in the contemporary world not because I have my own powers but because God will never cease to love me, what means I will never cease being strong. With these words the Father and Head of the UGCC His Beatitude Sviatoslav addressed the faithful on the 19th Sunday after Pentecost.

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“I will never lose hope in case I fail in my life or if something simply goes wrong as I have planned it to be”, the Head of the Church added.

In today’s homily the preacher refers to love which has to be different from love of sinners, criminals or pagans because their love is about taking something from others and applying to them. They love themselves differently. They give in order to take what is theirs, maybe even with interest. An enemy goes even further by taking everything that belongs to you, everything what does not belong to him.

The Christ’s Church instead preaches the Lord who is the greatest benefactor of a man, not an enemy; the God who loves, as He is love himself. Christ says: “do good to your enemies, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back”.

“Why? This is the way God loves. God loves his enemies. God gives without expecting anything back. Thus, the sense of life of a Christian is a vocation to testify that we are loved by God. The good news of the Gospel is that God loves us despite our deeds. God loves the one He created and keeps in life”, reckons His Beatitude Sviatoslav.

That love of God is the source of our life.

“Every morning we wake up, feel that we are breathing, have some means for living exactly because God gives them to us and love us”, says His Beatitude Sviatoslav.

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