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b'(Dt.7:6-11;\\xa0\\xa0 Ps.103:1-4,8,10,17;\\xa0\\xa0 1Jn.4:7-16;\\xa0\\xa0 Mt.11:25-30) \\xa0 \\u201cHe has loved us and has sent His Son as an offering for our sins.\\u201d \\xa0 Who better to hear from on this blessed feast than John, the Lord\\u2019s beloved disciple, whose words indeed continually breathe the fact that \\u201cGod is love\\u201d and who eternally exhorts us to \\u201clove one another.\\u201d\\xa0 John cannot but speak of the love God has for His children and the love we must offer in return; and all of our Scripture today echoes his understanding and calls us to be washed in the blood of Christ. In our gospel Jesus calls unto the hearts of all: \\u201cCome to me, all you who are weary and find life burdensome, and I will refresh you.\\u201d\\xa0 He invites His little ones: \\u201cTake my yoke upon your shoulders and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart.\\u201d\\xa0 O so gentle and humble of heart is the Lord our God\\u2026 so loving, so kind!\\xa0 David sings of Him so well in his psalm of praise and thanksgiving: \\u201cMerciful is the Lord, slow to anger and abounding in kindness.\\u201d\\xa0 Why does God\\u2019s king \\u201cbless the Lord\\u201d with \\u201call [his] being\\u201d today?\\xa0 Because \\u201cnot according to our sins does He deal with us.\\u201d\\xa0 Because of His forgiving grace \\u2013 this greatest sign of His love, embodied in His only Son.\\xa0 And so, as Moses says to all the people in our hearing on this holy feast, we should \\u201clove Him and keep His commandments,\\u201d for He is \\u201cthe faithful God who keeps His merciful covenant down to the thousandth generation.\\u201d\\xa0 Yes, this covenant of love has been fulfilled in Jesus\\u2019 blood, in Jesus\\u2019 heart from which His blood does come, and \\u201cwhen anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him and he in God\\u201d; then we \\u201ccome to know and believe in the love God has for us.\\u201d And to whom does the love of God come so readily?\\xa0 Who finds such faith in the Lamb of God and knows that \\u201cHe pardons all [our] iniquities\\u201d and \\u201ccrowns [us] with kindness and compassion\\u201d?\\xa0 Jesus in His prayer to the Father states, \\u201cWhat you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have revealed to the merest children,\\u201d and this is confirmed by Moses, who tells the Israelites, \\u201cIt was not because you are the largest of all nations that the Lord set His heart on you and chose you, for you are really the smallest of all nations.\\u201d\\xa0 It is not the strong and the wise of the world the Lord showers His love upon, but the humble and the lowly.\\xa0 These know the love the mighty and humble, gentle Lord holds in His Sacred Heart.\\xa0 Alleluia! Brothers and sisters, \\u201cit was because the Lord loved you\\u2026 that He brought you out with a strong hand from the place of slavery.\\u201d\\xa0 Let your soul \\u201cfind rest\\u201d in that merciful love this day, and let it share that love with all others. \\xa0 Written, read & chanted by James Kurt; produced by Roger Fortney. Music by Roger Fortney; used by permission. \\xa0 ******* O LORD, how you love us! sending your only Son to die for our salvation \\u2013 let us come to Him this day and know your love. YHWH, so loving you are that you share your very self with us in the Person of the Son of God, in Jesus the Christ.\\xa0 How is it love come to us so truly?\\xa0 How is it you, who are love, make yourself known to us in such a real way?\\xa0 It is because you are love and desire therefore to share love with us, your poor creatures. O LORD, you forgive all our sins, you heal all our ills\\u2026 all that is evil you take from us that we might be one with you who are love.\\xa0 O that we might have a heart so humble and lowly as your own! that we might truly come to know your love, that we might truly come to be your own children.\\xa0 Let us share your love with one another and we shall find ourselves living in your love. In you let us take our rest, O LORD, in your Sacred Heart.\\xa0 Jesus is your very heart and His blood you would have course through our veins.\\xa0 O let His Heart beat in our own, that overwhelmed with His love we might become one with you in Heaven.\\xa0 Give us your Spirit of love this day to make us your own people, your own flesh and blood.'