Homily for August 2: 18th Sunday: Romans 8:35.37-39

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(Please read the passage cited above first.)

My sisters and brothers,

St Paul wrote, “What can separate us from the love of Christ?  He answered that nothing could separate us from this love.

No tribulation, no spiritual thing has any power to separate us from the love of Christ.  No sin, not even all sins together, can separate us from the love of Christ.

The love of Christi is always faithful.  Nothing has any power to defeat the love of Christ.  Christ always loves us, always wants us: nothing can overpower Christ.

If nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, then not even ourselves, not even our own sins can separate us from Christ.  The power of Christ is stronger than all our evil and all the evil of the whole world.  The love of Christ is all-powerful and has conquered all things, all disasters, all death, all our weaknesses, all the sins of the whole world.  The power of Christ is complete and cannot be defeated.

Christ is always with us in our sufferings and distress.  Never will Christ leave us.  Christ is our companion in these difficult times.

He will be with us through death, against the devil throughout our whole life.

He likewise is with us when we sin, not to help us sin but to call us away from sin.  He is always with us and he always loves us even if we sin.

Therefore we can and ought to turn towards Christ, the trust in Christ and turn away from the sins we have committed against Christ.  We do not have to lose hope or despair because Christ is always fail and nothing has any power to separate us from Christ, not even our sins.  The love of Christ and the will of Christ has all power to save us and remain with us.  Christ will never separate us from himself.