The crux of Christian living

WORD 2day: Thursday, 23rd week in Ordinary time

September 10, 2020: 1 Corinthians 8: 1b-7, 11-13; Luke 6: 27-38

The Word today has a practical summary for Christian living; it offers for our consideration and reflection, the crux of being a true Christ-ian: LOVE, love in all its concrete sense. In fact in the context of the first letter to the Corinthians, that we are reading these days, St. Paul is slowly building up and drawing the attention of the followers of Christ towards the presentation of the all important hymn of love, which he will do in a few chapters from here. 

Christian life has to be defined by love: love understood as sensitivity towards the weak and vulnerable; love understood as the compassion towards the needy and suffering; love understood as a non judgmental acceptance of the other; love understood as giving without counting; love understood as going an extra mile; love understood as forgiveness and love understood as relationship shared in the One God, the One Father and Mother of all. 

At times it might look very simplistic to propose love as the solution for all problems in life, but giving a serious thought to it, everything boils down to that. Love is the only answer to all problems in life, in the world and in the whole of existence. Just as in this week's general audience, the Wednesday Catechesis, the Holy Father reiterated love as the solution to all problems in the world today: be they political or international or even that of the pandemic... finding solution in solidarity! 

True love (let us not forget, only what is true, is love)... true love alone can set the world back to its perfect mode of happiness and meaning. Anything else can  find only pseudo remedies and temporary face-lifts. It is love and love alone that can offer true salvation to humankind - this is the message we as followers of Christ are called to live in our daily life, because truly, the crux of Christian living is nothing other than true love!