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It stays forever

Love, like a casket of precious pearls, still offers itself to the request for words of eternal life. Let's listen to the message: "So if you present your offer on the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift before the altar and go first to reconcile with your brother and then come back to offer your gift".
(Mt 5, 23-24).

Reconciliation is a word that takes importance and strength for its placement at the center of the possible communion of man with God. Leave your gift before the altar and go first to reconcile with your brother and then return to offer your gift.
The language of love surprises me and upsets me. I am called by love to a change of mentality, and I am placed in the middle, myself in person.

It is the ineffable mystery of love that becomes a model for us in fraternal reconciliation, and says, it is necessary to listen to a language that is not of this world, but that is the language of God himself. In the silence of listening, reflect: who can desire and ask for reconciliation, if not those who have love in themselves?

With these imperatives, leave, go to reconcile, come back, love reveals itself. Those who love must take the first step in the search for reconciliation. Those who have evil in themselves can not do it, because evil prevents love. If you do not seek reconciliation, love dies in you.

This step seems too difficult; it would be easier if it were him, the brother who has something against me, to propose reconciliation with him. How many doubts and questions arise around the precept of reconciliation!

Is it serious for me to lower myself to ask for reconciliation to those who should ask it to me, because it is he who has something against me? Is it not better to leave alone and allow time to heal the wounds and make truth and justice shine?

Love commands you: it reconciles you, here and now, with your brother who has something against you. It is an imperative that presupposes a language of which the alphabet has been lost; that language of love proper to the Gospel of Christ.

When you take the first step towards the brother to be reconciled, redo the path of eternal love that sustains you, and that renews the mystery of his becoming a man in you and his brother to build up love. That step you take to reconcile with your brother is certainly not a lowering; it is instead a step to break the chains of slavery that immobilize you in forgiving.

If I have no love, I can not have any relationship with God, even if I were a prophet, even if I had the greatest faith, even if I gave my belongings to the poor, even if I were a martyr of the faith. If I do not have love, I am nothing, and all my actions do not need anything. It is love that gives value to human life.

Love is great because it summarizes in itself faith and hope: Love all believes and all hopes, never sets. Love does not look for its own things. And we must also bear in mind the living model of love.

Love believes everything because it trusts itself and therefore will never be deceived. Love also knows the risk of its existence, knows that existence judges it incessantly and puts it to the test in front of deception, which can overwhelm him. It overcomes the risk and the temptation of mistrust, believing in itself and the victory over good and evil.

Love does not look for its own things, its own interest, it does not expect to be reciprocated, and therefore you can not deceive it. The apostle St. Paul, writing to the Philippians, adds that his hope will not be confused.

Hope and despair are openness and expectation of the future: hope is the choice and affirmation of a future in which good wins over evil; despair affirms the impossibility that good can win over evil.

If the are two possibilities equally in the future, why does despair affirm the impossibility that good wins over evil, and does hope affirm the good? The answer is contained in the declaration of St. Paul: "love all hopes". Love is a gift that feeds on its self-giving if it is imprisoned in selfishness, love dies

Love remains forever! Only love! His words are of eternal life, and are always understood by everyone, despite the diversity of languages and dialects, despite the diversity of cultures and historical periods.