Saints Cyril, Methodius and Valentine - The Call to be in Love!
The Word reaching a people is not a simple happening or a non characteristic event - it is a definitive self revelation of God being extended to that part of humanity! Those who are involved become blessed instruments in the hands of the Lord, according to the heart of the Lord. They become the most beautiful feet on earth, carrying the most life-giving of all things in the world - the Word of the Lord.
However, there are more than a few elements that have to come together if this blessed experience has to be realised. Looking at it as a basic communication, there is the Sender who has to will it and there has to be the receiver who is prepared to receive it; there has to be a medium which will carry it, amidst all the noise that will surround to disturb it; and above all and at the heart of it all rests the message that is being communicated, which has to be conceived and represented in its utmost originality!
It is in this context that the saints whom we celebrate today come into consideration. Be it Saints Cyril and Methodius, or any other Apostle for that matter who is called and sent, there is the medium being chosen by the Lord! The effectiveness of this medium is determined by the fact of how much the medium is taken up with the message; how much the medium knows and treasures the message; how much the medium has interiorised the message - and this is what we call - being in love, which translates as the medium becoming the message!
Celebrating also the popular feast of the patron of those in love - St. Valentine, today the question we are inspired to ask ourselves is this: how much in love am I with the message, as a medium! The reason we need to ask this question is crucially this: because the call to be an apostle, is a call to be in love!
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