Thursday, June 30th
The First Christian Martyrs of Rome. 64.a.d
Romans 8:31-39. Matthew 24:4-13

Love is both catalyst and fulfilment. The Father is Love, so is the Son, and even so Our Holy Spirit. The Father’s Love and Word Incarnate has taken human flesh and through His life and death and risen life brings all who are in Him and He in them to perfection and fulfilment in the fulness of eternity, and is progress in the Way in Time.

The cost to the Father no-one in heaven or on earth can ever fully know, but all are called to identify with Our redeeming, sanctifying love, follow in the steps of the Son of Man, and respond to the Father’s will and loving purpose in faith and trust and in absolute self-giving.

It is written ‘God so loved the world that He gave his only Son so that all who put their trust in Him may have eternal life’.(John 3:16.NE.B.) In suffering and in death the Father’s Love Incarnate brings all faithful to His Word in and through His Love to perfection and fulfilment in the Father’s glorious Presence in eternity.