Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

“Strive to enter through the narrow door,“

One at a time. Can’t come hidden in a crowd. Can’t come carrying many possessions.  So narrow, that only divine love can pass through.

God's love is everywhere but to benefit from this grace, and avoid the very common sense of radical loneliness, we need to let it enter into our heart and embrace it.

Why not spend more time meditating the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus to learn to love at its best.

Then, using God’s love in our heart as our motivation and fuel, we can relate with that love with our SON, our self, others and nature.

However, that love is not just a splendid feeling. It must be there across our PIES.

Love is underpinned by respect and appreciation. We value the one we love and want them to fulfil their vocation, even if that does not include serving us.

The physical and thus serving others, the intellectual and thus seeing people as they are seen by God and being emotionally intelligent, caring for people as they are.

Spiritually, that love is virtuous and gradually makes us capax Dei, capable of life with God on the other side of that narrow entrance.

Demonstrate gratitude to God's love by responding with practical love for SON.