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HOMILIES

God is love. Because God is love, he comes into the world through love and reveals to us that
in Jesus Christ, we are called to be children of God for all eternity. God comes into the world
to give us the strength to live, the strength to love and to forgive. He has the power to trans-
form death into the transition to eternal life.

Because God is love, I can place my life to into his hands. No matter my faith, no matter my
sins, no matter how far I have strayed from God or how close I remained, in every stage of life,
God is love.

God is love means that God the Father never stops looking at me as his beloved child. It also
means that God the Son never stops giving his life for me, never stops giving his grace so that
I may have life and life in fullness. Finally, it means that God the Holy Spirit never stops
coming to me to open my heart to the presence of God. Because God is love.

I believe that God exists. I believe in God, and I put my life into his hands. Let us ask for the
gift of faith. The gift of faith, as faith is always a gift.
At the same time, God offers us this gift that transforms our life, a gift that transforms the
way that I look at others, and that transforms my outlook on life, because my life is for all
eternity within the plan of the love of God.

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Why did Jesus Christ reveal to us that He is the Son of the Father? Why do the Father and the
Son want to give us the Holy Spirit? Why reveal to us the life of God? Is it only to tell us about
who God is? Or is it also to reveal to us who we are? What is particular about the revelation of
Jesus Christ is not only that it reveals who God is or about his love for us, it also reveals who
we are as human beings! That we come from the love of God and that his plan is a plan of love
for eternal life! That his love is given to us today, here and now, every day. Jesus Christ comes
to give a goal to the life of everyone.

(cont’d)

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