June 11, 2009
In the Letter to the Ephesians, Paul also says: "That Faith Christ may dwell in your hearts, being rooted and grounded in love, you can comprehend with all saints what is the width and length, height and depth, and know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God "(3:17-19).
This text is essential, as St. Paul made it as a kind of description of the Heart of Christ. Instead of saying the word 'heart' says 'width', 'length', 'height' and 'depth'.
width, because the Heart of Christ is so wide that it fall all men Even his enemies! Length, because it is eternal, indeed, the love of Jesus for men is forever: "Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved to the end" (Jn 13, 1) until the end of his life and for eternity, and until the end of human strength.
height because it is supernatural, the love of God is infinite, which is manifested in the Heart of Jesus. It's the same transcendent love of God the Father to mankind, revealed in the Son, the Word incarnate.
and depth, as the same word expresses the depth of the mysteries of Christ. As St. Paul says: "The Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God" (1 Cor 2.10).
The Apostle says that love surpasses knowledge, all knowledge. Here is another very important point. Look at these words: "That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts, being rooted and grounded in love (ie love of Christ) you may understand ... the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge "(Eph 3.17). Ie we can not understand the love of God in Christ, if not love him, because it is a science "experimental." Knowledge is not purely rational, purely theological or even biblical, but it is so important. Is much larger, is a knowledge connaturalidad, in fact would have to say 'with-supernatural. " In short, it is a mystical knowledge, the work of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially the gift of wisdom and the gift of understanding. As they say the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: "... in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge "of the divine science, not merely human. This knowledge is only experiencing the love of God to us by Christ, and love from us to God through Christ. This is what we say and sing in the doxology of the Mass: "Per Ipsum, cum Ipso et in Ipso", "Through Christ, with Him and in Him."
This text is essential, as St. Paul made it as a kind of description of the Heart of Christ. Instead of saying the word 'heart' says 'width', 'length', 'height' and 'depth'.
width, because the Heart of Christ is so wide that it fall all men Even his enemies! Length, because it is eternal, indeed, the love of Jesus for men is forever: "Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved to the end" (Jn 13, 1) until the end of his life and for eternity, and until the end of human strength.
height because it is supernatural, the love of God is infinite, which is manifested in the Heart of Jesus. It's the same transcendent love of God the Father to mankind, revealed in the Son, the Word incarnate.
and depth, as the same word expresses the depth of the mysteries of Christ. As St. Paul says: "The Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God" (1 Cor 2.10).
The Apostle says that love surpasses knowledge, all knowledge. Here is another very important point. Look at these words: "That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts, being rooted and grounded in love (ie love of Christ) you may understand ... the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge "(Eph 3.17). Ie we can not understand the love of God in Christ, if not love him, because it is a science "experimental." Knowledge is not purely rational, purely theological or even biblical, but it is so important. Is much larger, is a knowledge connaturalidad, in fact would have to say 'with-supernatural. " In short, it is a mystical knowledge, the work of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially the gift of wisdom and the gift of understanding. As they say the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: "... in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge "of the divine science, not merely human. This knowledge is only experiencing the love of God to us by Christ, and love from us to God through Christ. This is what we say and sing in the doxology of the Mass: "Per Ipsum, cum Ipso et in Ipso", "Through Christ, with Him and in Him."
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