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“Love never fails. Prophecies will cease, tongues will be silent, knowledge will pass away. Our prophesying is imperfect and our knowledge imperfect. There are in the end three things that last, faith, hope and love and the greatest of this is love.”

         From the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians

 

This is a story of a young man on his journey back home…

His time has come to be born into the world and the angels rejoice. They showered upon him every wish on his heart. His parents rained on him tender kisses and sweet hugs. He is at it were the center of everything and everyone revolves around his world.

Then came a time of his childhood. He was nourished with parental love and grew amidst a loving family, until his adolescence. Time and tradition has shaped in him a better frame of mind at his disposal. He used it, enjoyed it and lived with it. It was also the time of questioning long-respected values. It was a time of rapid and drastic change of environment. A time of failure, woundedness and the needed healing of both body and soul.

Enter God’s time. God’s plan unfolded slowly but surely. This is the time of truth, therefore the moment of pain and healing.

The scene made a major twist. The title it now bears is no longer the story of the young man on his journey.  But it became the journey of man with God. It highlights the sweet interventions of God in man in the stage of Divine Love.  

“Love never fails. Prophecies will cease, tongues will be silent, knowledge will pass away. Our prophesying is imperfect and our knowledge imperfect. There are in the end three things that last, faith, hope and love and the greatest of this is love.” This serves as the central theme of God’s story, of the Good News to every man born to this world.

Love never fails. God is the fullness of love. God is love. God never fails. People may come and go. The same word may acquire different meanings. The same word maybe interpreted differently by others. And yet, this universal language never fails to speak and communicate its meaning. Love is the word. Love is the meaning and love is the message. God is the Eternal Message and the Eternal Word .God is the meaning of each and every life.

Prophecies will cease. Our time has been marked by numerous prophecies from different soothsayers, modern prophets and visionaries. It foretells about calamities and even the end of the world. One prophecy may contradict another, thus creating an unavoidable confusion. A tragedy may happen anytime; however, love is firm for its foundation is God. Its certain hope is this, “everything happens by the power of love” and “ all things work together for the good of those who love God”. Anything may happen, anything can go wrong, but in the end of the story love still would prevail.  A single prophecy however, would certainly be fulfilled. The prophecy spoken by our Heavenly Mother, “In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph”. Her Immaculate Heart will surely triumph for it is full of Divine Love. Moreover, her words are based on god’s truth of never-ending and never-failing love. “In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph”.

            Tongues will be kept silent. Words are never enough. It will come to its sad and necessary conclusion. Things like this are imperfect and must give way for perfection to show forth its majesty. Love is perfect for its beginning is perfect. Divine love is the perfection that will cause all tongues to its total halt. Everyone will only listen to the Truth. Every ear will be absorbed in the soft and grace-filled promptings of God the Holy Spirit.  Everyone will draw its love from the wellspring of the Triune God. and on this angle of God’s story, speech holds no water for every being is submerged in the deepest recesses of God’s love.

            Knowledge will pass away. All earthly wisdom will be dissolved as if it did not exist. It will pass away and everything will reside in God whose very presence is already eternity. God’s intervention in man’s history is a foretaste of eternity itself. It is indeed for it is God’s time the kairos. It had never begun nor will come to its completion for it has none of these. The towering influx of mundane understanding will not be counted in the wisdom of Love. As a matter of truth, wisdom brought by God will cause every human knowledge to crumble and fall. Such is its pending destiny and so be it.

            In the near end of God’s little story, the young man in his journey to his true home, encounters the three theological virtues namely, faith, hope and love. It is after he discovered through the divine mercy and grace that all prophecies are in vain, speech is not enough and will commit itself to silence. Human wisdom does not make any sense before the God of love.

            The homo viator   finding all these useless treasures only three lasting things of the spirit. faith, hope and love. The pilgrim on the way will  “put on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet the hope of salvation. (1 The. 5-8) such are his provisions and only riches.  Like any other pilgrim he will be tried and will encounter various difficulties along the way to his true home.

             As he goes nearer to his true home, things will get clearer to him, though the eyes of faith. Hope would vanish the dreadful fears and all of these will be solidly founded upon love. Indeed, in the end man would find himself at the very gates of his true home, the home where the father is. The home where love in its fullness resides. It is the home of God and man’s home as well.

 

             

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