Love is… Love is the highest virtue. It is the prize for which we live and run. It is the most powerful reflection of God’s nature. And every act of power that God performs is a demonstration of his love. During Advent at Christmas we remember God's beautifully extravagant, gritty and costly expression of love - the incarnation - a moment when God was pleased to physically dwell with humanity through his promised one - Jesus the Christ. Love is tangible – it’s obvious and active – it’s not just a value that is hidden somewhere inside of us. It comes out in action – it can’t be passive. Saint John writes that when we see a brother or sister in need and do not act then the love of God the Fath
"Jesus is here, and His kingdom is available. Receiving the good news of Christ and His kingdom leads to great joy." We were out on the Peace Bridge about a week ago praying for people and we got talking to a couple of students from Monaghan (well actually they were from Slovakia and Germany but they were staying in Ireland for a year). Anyway, we asked them what the dream was and they thought for a moment and one of them said, "happiness, I want to be happy, to make others happy." There is something in us that wants joy, right? Maybe we don't understand what we're looking for or we call it happiness but I believe it's an inherent desire for something of life, something that God created us f
