Gospel text (John 15,12-17): Jesus said to his
disciples, «This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. There
is no greater love than this, to give one's life for one's friends; and you are
my friends if you do what I command you. I shall not call you servants any
more, because servants do not know what their master is about. Instead I have
called you friends, since I have made known to you everything I learned from my
Father. You did not choose me; it was I who chose you and sent you to go and
bear fruit, fruit that will last. And everything you ask the Father in my name,
he will give you. This is my command, that you love one another».
Our God is all love and truth, who asks from us humility and forgiveness. Our God is the only living God. He has the word of eternal life. Observing the process of the current protests in the Middle East and many other places in the world by the so called followers of Islam, presumably outraged because they do not like what is being presented in a film about their prophet; it is interesting to distinguish that factual truth, about what is missing in the whole staging of these protests and it is precisely, truth, love, humility and forgiveness and it is not precisely from the ignorant mobs perpetrating the assaults under the direction of their evil leaders, but from the ones supposedly protecting the basic and fundamental freedoms we all in the western civilization which is founded in Christianity, have for granted.
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