"As we celebrate Mother's Day today, I think it would be better to remember the sacrifices and the pains that our moms have been undergoing to raise a family. I had an opportunity to meet a mom who had given one of her kidney's to save her son who had been ill for a long time. The doctors had told her that she need not jeopardize or risk her life by giving one of her kidneys to her son whose life in any way cannot be saved...but in spite of Doc's advices, she told her doctors, "Even if he dies tomorrow, I will show to my son that I love him." She gave her kidney to her son who lived a couple of weeks and died."The word "Love" is a very common word and apparently when it is used we lose its real meaning. "I love my pet. I love my mom. I love my cookies. I love my girlfriend or boyfriend and so on." What I mean to say is that we do not feel the inner strength or inner power that the word love contains. Today our movies, TV episodes and magazines equate love with sex, pleasure and destroy the purity of love as something to be manufactured or put in sales. In other words, love is not synonymous with pleasure. In today's Gospel our Lord tells us that true love brings unlimited and boundless joy to us. ...
"Love that originates in God and in which we share must enable us to love one another. Just as in the story where the mother risked her life for her son which in today's world seldom we perceive...we must also do for our neighbor. But the people like our moms are still live in today's world, ready to sacrifice even their own lives for others. One of my friends back in India...is going to give one of his kidneys to his neighbor." ...my words: Father states in his sermon that this man in India is only 40 and he has a large family to support and all of his family is very encouraging and supportive of his decision. He says that he "salutes that family"...(back to Father)..."What I mean to say is that there is still hope." My words interpreting Father: Also, he is telling us that evil, darkness, or whatever word one so chooses to use for the awful that happens in our world, "fails miserably in the lives of people like my friend, and in the lives of mothers. "As long as they live" (my word: darkness )"can never overshadow the brightness of love..." Father Joy Thaiparambil St. Clare's Catholic Church, Clarinda, IA...
What a wonderful, thoughtful, and tender man of love, hope, change, and light. Part II tomorrow. :)
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