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What the world needs now is love, sweet love...
J.M.J.
November 8, 2017
Dear Family of Mary!
There was a song back in 1966 sung by Dionne Warwick called "What The
World Needs Now Is Love, Sweet Love". I was a teenager then, and that
song spoke to my heart. It was like an ache that we all felt, and ache
in our hearts for peace and for good will among men. For love. The
beginning verse goes like this:
What the world needs now is love sweet love,
It's the only thing that there's just too little of,
What the world needs now is love sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone...
The
song was in the form of a prayer telling God we need love. Goodness
knows, we don't need to tell the Lord that we need love! He is the
origin of Love and is Love and wishes He could give Himself to all of
us. Still, the truth was there. We need love. We are dying for love. And
the song writer was pointing to the right source!
In the first reading for Mass today, St. Paul tells us something about the world's need for love:
Brothers and sisters:
Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another;
for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
The commandments,
You shall not commit adultery;
you shall not kill;
you shall not steal;
you shall not covet,
and whatever other commandment there may be,
are summed up in this saying, namely,
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Love does no evil to the neighbor;
hence, love is the fulfillment of the law. (Rom 13: 8-10)
Love
does fulfill the law. It is always the right response, always the right
desire for another. St. Paul in his own way was telling us that love is
what the world needs!!
Our Lady in the most recent message told us very much the same thing, i.e. that what the world needs now is love:
"...My
Son is love. He loves all people without difference, all people of all
countries and of all nations. If you, my children, would live the love
of my Son, His kingdom would already be on earth. Therefore, apostles of
my love, pray, pray that my Son and His love may be all the closer to
you; that you may be an example of love and may help all those who have
not come to know my Son. Never forget that my Son, one and Triune, loves
you..." (November 2, 2017)
Of course, Our Lady gives us the best direction about how to bring love to the world. She tells us to "pray,
pray that my Son and His love may be all the closer to you, that you
may be an example of love and may help all those who have not come to
know my Son." It is only when we pray and stay close to Jesus
that we will be able to love. We are so fallen that even our best
efforts at love will fail without Jesus. He must love in and through us.
What the world needs now is Jesus' love, given to us to share with
others. That is what the world needs now, so desperately. That is what
the world aches for...
What the world needs now is love sweet love,
It's the only thing that there's just too little of,
What the world needs now is love sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone...
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2017
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