Reconciliation

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You love less than formerly

"You love less than formerly" Rev. 2:4   Is it possible to love less some one? We are told you either love or you don't love or you just like me. The author of the book of Revelation writing to Ephesus one of the persecuted communities in Asia Minor at his time writes: "I know too that you have perseverance, and have suffered for my name without growing tired. Nevertheless, I have this complaint to make: you have less love now than formerly" (Rev. 2:3-4). In human relationships, people have felt that their partners no longer love them the way they used to love them. It could be their feeling that of inattention or less time being together. Our love for God can also be lessened  or stagnated. We may not have time for Him in our lives.  This 'love less' for God can be triggered by so many factors. The first one could be our personal crisis that we are going through. Crisis can be triggered disappointments in life - dreams not fulfilled, death of love...
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Faithfulness Even in Temptation

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We begin our first week of lent by reflecting on the meaning of temptation in our lives. Our life should always of being faithful even when we are tempted. The Gospel of Luke which we are reading in this year speaks about the three temptations of our Lord Jesus Christ. It narrates how Jesus was tempted against material needs, human power, and against asking God for an extraordinary sign of protection (Cf. Luke 4: 1-13). Temptation is an inducement to sin. It is a trial in which one has a free choice of being faithful or unfaithful to God and His commands. Temptation is not a sin certainly. It is just a situation of choice: “between the Eternal Good (God) and temporal good (in- ordinate love of self). The first temptation Christ experienced was that of hunger or against material needs. We want to have good clothes, money especially in this time of poverty. These temporal needs are important to our lives but they are not an end in themselves “ Human beings live not on br...
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Evidence enough to believe

  Coming from the catholic biblical school of thought, I have always believed and accepted that ‘Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, though two different channels of revelation, are bound closely together, and communicate with one another. Together they transmit the fullness of revelation, and make up one single deposit  of the Word of God.’ By sacred tradition I mean creedal formulae, liturgies and dogmas be it oral or doctrinal that have always been transmitted through the teaching authority of the apostles and through their successors who in this regard are the bishops, and especially the bishop of Rome. However we face challenges from our non catholic or evangelical tradition which argues that whenever what is doctrinal or liturgical or even moral belief cannot be substantiated biblically simply imply that it cannot be part of the deposit of faith. ‘if it is not biblical or if I cannot find it in the scripture, I exclude from my belief. Secondly, we have other school...
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