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“…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

CREATED FOR JOY • We are more than an accident of evolution • He loves us. • He made us in his image to share in his joy. “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

CREATED FOR JOY “Promising love for ever is possible when we perceive a plan bigger than our own ideas and undertakings, a plan which sustains us and enable us to surrender our future entirely to the one we love” Pope Francis “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

CREATED FOR JOY • Jesus is the source for the hope, faith, love and joy that should animate Catholic family life. • For many people, we have no higher purpose than whatever meaning we create for ourselves. “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

PURPOSE • A longing for purpose is a universal human experience. • ü ü ü LOGING FOR PURPOSE “Who am I? ” “Why I am here? ” “How should I live? ” • For many people, we have no higher purpose than whatever meaning we create for ourselves. “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

Trust in Jesus • Many people honestly seek meaning, but don't know whom to trust. • In midst of this uncertainty, Christians are the people trust in JESUS. • “In man’s history, [the] revelation of love and mercy has taken a form and a name : that of Jesus Christ. ” - St. John Paul II “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

Trust in Jesus • Jesus asks disciples “Who do you say that I am? • Christians are the people who met Jesus in various ways: ü Scripture, Sacrament, in Prayer, Service to the poor, friends and family. • We say with Peter “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God”. “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

God whom we trust wants us to flourish. “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

To those who suffer, God does not provide arguments which explains everything; rather his response is that of an accompanying presence. -Pope Francis Christ is the one who, having endured suffering, is the “pioneer and perfecter of our faith” -Pope Francis. “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

Created for Joy • Jesus reveals our human identity and destiny. • “The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light” II Vatican council. • The root reason for human dignity lies in man’s call to communion with God. • Man cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and devotes himself to his Creator. “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

Image of God “It is love that makes the human person the authentic image of the blessed Trinity, [the] image of God” Pope Benedict XVI. Having been created in the image of God suggests that our true joy and fulfillments lie in knowing, loving, and serving one anther as God does. “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

Image of God • We are created in the “image of God” • God is to be a Trinity of communion Father, Son & Holy Spirit • To be a person we need communion. • Being a person in the image and likeness of God thus also involves existing in a relationship, in relation to the other ‘I’. “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

Likeness of God We are created in the “likeness of God” • • To say that we are created in the likeness of God means that man is called to exist ‘for’ others, to become a gift. To save our lives we must lose them to God. (Mt 10. 39, 16: 25). “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

LOVE is our MISSION “God created man in his own image and likeness: calling him to existence though love, he called him at the same time for love. God is love and in himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion. Crating the human race in his own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion, . Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being. ” -Familaris Consortia “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

God works through us. We have a mission. We are in the world for a purpose-to receive God’s love ourselves and to show God’s love to others, God seeks to heal a broken universe. He asks us to be his witness and helpers in that work. “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

The Mission of Love • Gods way of living becomes the measure of human love. • Go’s way is the better way, but not always easier way! • Biblical images of Gods love • Welcoming of prodigal son (Lk 15: 11 -32). • Good shepherd (Lk 15: 11 -32). • Lost sheep (Lk 15: 3 -7) “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

The Mission of Love “God loves his people. Need, biblical revelation is above all an expression of a love story, the story of God’s covenant with human kind. This is why the story of the union of life an love between a man and a woman in the covenant of marriage was used b God a a symbol of salvation history. ” -Pope Benedict XVI “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

The Mission of Love “Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa. ” -Pope Benedict XVI "To have life and have it abundantly" Jn. 10: 10

The Mission of Love By contemplating the pierced side of Christ, we can understand…God is love. It is there that this truth can be contemplated. It is from there that our definition of love must begin. In this contemplation the Christian discovers the path along which his life and love must move. ” Pope Benedict XVI “…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19

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“…because I live, you will also live” Jn. 14: 19