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Love

There are many questions inside my head An Initiative of Jesus Youth


The Bible says that love is patient, kind and is not jealous A Missionary Movement at the Service of the Church
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The Bible says that love does not brag and is not arrogant Don Bosco Utume January 25, Sunday: Issue 79
What happened with me? Why can't I be arrogant
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because love doesn't break God's rules, lives in Christ.
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I realized that was my instinct
Sometimes, that seems not wrong Pep-up : Stories for Reflection
The Young and the Bible : Pauline Year Special (II Thessalonians)

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Sometimes, that's hurting me
Love could teach me about living in God's rules Points to Ponder : 11 Lessons in Life
Now I must confess that someone special came into my life Saint of the Week : St. Thomas Aquinas
Someone has changed my life totally Reflection : Love
Someone has taken my trials, without any compulsion Last Drop : The Example of Christ
Someone carved me a complete history Love, Wealth and Success
I was so confused, A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front
Everyday I wake up, I found myself so lucky yard. She did not recognize them. Then she said, "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry.
Thank God, for giving me the most beautiful love letter ever written Please come in and have something to eat." "Is the man of the house home?" they asked. "No,"
Because, Love brings me anything that I never had in my whole live she said. "He's out." "Then we cannot come in," they replied. In the evening when her husband
Martin Krisanto Nugroho came home, she told him what had happened. So, he said. "Go tell them I'm home, and invite them
in!" The woman went out and invited the men in. "We do not go into a house together," they replied.
Last Drop "Why is that?" she wanted to know. One of the old men explained. "His name is Wealth," he said
The Example of Christ pointing to one of his friends, and pointing to another one he said, "This man is Success, and I am
Love." Then he added, "Now, go and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your
If you seek the example of love: “Greater love than this no man has, than to lay down
home." The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed.
his life for his friends.” Such a man was Christ on the cross. And if he gave his life for "How nice!" he said. "Since that's the case, let us invite in Wealth. Let him come in and fill our home
us, then it should not be difficult to bear whatever hardships arise for his sake. If you with wealth!" His wife disagreed. "Why don't we invite Success?" Their daughter was listening from
seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Christ endured much on the corner of the room. She jumped in with her own suggestion. "Wouldn't it be better to invite
the cross, and did so patiently, because “when he suffered he did not threaten; he was Love? Our home will then be filled with love!" The wife agreed. "Then let us heed our daughter's
led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.” If you seek an exam- advice," said the husband to his wife. "Go out and invite Love in to be our guest." The woman went
ple of obedience, follow him who became obedient to the Father even unto death. “For out and asked the three old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest."
just as by the disobedience of one man,” namely, Adam, “many were made sinners, so Love got up and started walking toward the house. Then the other two also got up and followed
by the obedience of one man, many were made righteous. him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success, "I only invited in Love, as you directed. Why
St. Thomas Aquinas are you all coming in?"
The old men replied together, "If you had invited only Wealth or Success, the other two of us would
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The Young and the Bible
Pauline Year Special 11 Lessons In Life
Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians 9 1. It hurts to love someone and not to be loved in return, But what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
1. Who jointly wrote this letter? Paul, Silvanus and Timothy (1:1) 2. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the
2. Why did Paul give thanks for the Thessalonians? Because their faith was growing end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.
abundantly, and their love for one another was increasing (1:3) 3. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word,
3. Who will be in burning fire and suffer the punishment of eternal destruction? Those and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
who do not know God and those who do not obey the Gospel of Jesus(1:8) 4. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't
4. Who would come before the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ? The day of the know what we've been missing until it arrives.
second coming will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless 5. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to
one is revealed, the one destined for destruction (2:3) love someone-but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
5. What will the son of destruction and confusion do? He will oppose and exalt himself 6. Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for
above every so called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
temple of God, declaring himself to be God (2:4) 7. Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because
6. How will the Lord destroy the lawless one? The Lord will destroy him with the you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
breath of his mouth, annihilating him by the manifestation of his coming (2:8) 8. Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the
7. Who will be condemned for taking pleasure in righteousness? Those who have not person too.
believed in the truth (2:12) 9. A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life; a timely word may level
8. Why did Paul say that we must always give thanks to God for the Thessalonians? Be- stress; a loving word may heal and bless.
10. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the
cause God chose them as the first fruit for salvation through sanctification by
most of everything that comes along their way.
the Spirit and through belief in the truth (2:13)
11. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with a tear. When you were born, you
9. For what purpose did God call the Thessalonians through the proclamation of good were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're
news by Paul and others? So that they might obtain the glory of the Lord Jesus the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
(2:14)
10. What are the intentions for which Paul requests the prayers of the Thessalonians? So
that the Word of the Lord might spread rapidly and be glorified everywhere and
that he might be rescued from wicked and evil people (3:1-2)
SAINT for the WEEK
11. What is Paul’s prayer for the Thessalonians? That the Lord directs their hearts to
January 28 St. Thomas Aquinas
Son of the Count of Aquino, born in the family castle in Lombardy near Naples, Italy. Edu-
the Love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ (3:5) cated by Benedictine monks at Monte Cassino, and at the University of Naples. He secretly
12. What was the command given to the Thessalonians by Paul and his companions? joined the mendicant Dominican friars in 1244. His family kidnapped and imprisoned him for a
Anyone unwilling to work should not eat (3:10) year to keep him out of sight, and deprogram him, but they failed to sway him, and he re-
13. To whom did Paul say, “let them do their work quietly and earn their bread”? To the joined his order in 1245.He studied in Paris, France from 1245 to 1248 under Saint Albert the
people who are living in idleness, mere busy bodies, not doing any work (3:11- Great, then accompanied Albertus to Cologne, Germany. Ordained in 1250, then returned to
Paris to teach. Taught theology at University of Paris. Recalled by king and university to Paris
12) in 1269, then recalled to Naples in 1272 where he was appointed regent of studies while
14. What does Paul ask the Thessalonians not to be weary in? In doing what is right working on the Summa Theologica. On 6 December 1273 he experienced a divine revelation
(3:13) which so enraptured him that he abandoned the Summa, saying that it and his other writings
15. Who should they not regard as enemies but warn them as believers? Those who do were so much straw in the wind compared to the reality of the divine glory. He died four
not obey what is said in this letter (3:15) months later while en route to the Council of Lyons, overweight and with his health bro-
16. How does Paul bless the Thessalonians at the end of his letter? “The grace of our ken by overwork. Pope Leo VIII commanded that his teachings be studied by all theology
Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you” (3:18) students. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1567.

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