“May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith;

may you be rooted and founded in love.

 All of this so that you may understand with all the holy ones the width, the length, the height and the depth – in a word, that you may know the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge, that you may be filled

and reach the fullness of God.

 

Glory to God who shows His power in us and can do much more than we could ask or imagine; glory to Him in the Church and in Christ Jesus through all generations for ever and ever, Amen.    -   Ephesians 3:17-21

 

This is my prayer on your community's anniversary –

 

As you celebrate the goodness of the Lord, I pray that you will also grow in your knowledge of him. St. Paul talks of the breadth, length, height and depth of the love of Christ. But what are these dimensions as applied to our life?

Breadth talks of distance. God's love goes as far as the east is from the west. There is no limit to the love of God and it covers all of creation.

Length means the duration. We know that God's love is eternal. It never ends and will not end. It extends from eternity to eternity.

God's love is so high that it is beyond our comprehension. St. John of the Cross talks of union with God as something that is supernatural and so is beyond understanding and imagination.

 

God's love is deep. It is so low that everyone can reach it. And the more humble we are, the deeper we get in God's love.

This therefore is a description of God's love. It is in all creation, it is eternal, it is beyond reason and it is available and given freely to everyone.

Because God's love is eternal, He desires to give us the best. The best that He can give to us is union with Himself. This union is possible only by His grace and it is only God who can do this. This union is beyond what is natural - it is supernatural. This supernatural union is achieved only if we deny ourselves - things that give us pleasure - and be blind to all things except God Himself.

So my prayer in your anniversary is that you may continue to grow in holiness as you allow God to work in you so that you may be able

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