@AlertaMundoNews Señor Jesús, te entrego mi corazón, te entrego mi alma, libértame de todo mal, te declaro como mi único y suficiente SALVADOR, Te Amo DIOS... Haga usted la oración! 🛐
She also wrote their names in the sand with her blood, went on to identify them and have them arrested for what they did to her. She's not just a survivor. She's a literal warrior.
I want to ponder on something that I believe many of us hear often in Scripture, but do not always pause long enough to let it reshape us:
“The love of Christ compels us.” (2 Corinthians 5:14)
At first glance, it can sound like poetry or sentiment. But when I sit with it more deeply, I realize St. Paul is describing something far more demanding and far more transformative than emotion.
He is describing a force that reorders an entire human life.
The love of Christ is not simply something we admire from a distance. It is revealed concretely in the Cross. And the Cross does not present us with a theory of love, but with a Person who freely enters suffering for our salvation while we are still sinners (cf. Romans 5:8).
This is where everything begins to change.
Because once a soul truly sees Christ crucified, neutrality is no longer possible.
Either we respond in surrender, or we slowly begin to resist in indifference.
St. Paul himself makes this connection immediately after:
“He died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.” (2 Corinthians 5:15)
So when I ask what it means that the love of Christ compels us, I come to understand it in this way:
It moves us away from a life centered on ourselves and toward a life centered on God.
Not through coercion, but through revelation.
Not through fear alone, but through gratitude that becomes obedience.
The Catechism reminds us that grace is not external pressure but interior transformation, a participation in the very life of God (cf. CCC 1997). This is important because it clarifies something the world often misunderstands about Christianity: we are not dragged toward holiness; we are drawn into it by love.
And that love begins to reorder everything.
Desires that once governed us begin to lose their dominance. The need for approval, control, pleasure, and recognition no longer sits at the center. Not because these things are destroyed, but because they are displaced by something greater.
Christ becomes the highest love.
And once He is truly seen in this way, life cannot remain unchanged.
I think of how the saints lived this reality. They did not treat Christ as one priority among many. He became the reference point for all other priorities. Prayer was not an obligation added to life, but the atmosphere in which life was lived. The Sacraments were not occasional spiritual support, but the source and summit of communion with Him.
What strikes me most is that this “compulsion” of Christ’s love is not the loss of freedom, but its purification.
Because a soul that is mastered by lesser loves is not truly free. It is divided. But a soul drawn into the love of Christ begins to become unified, ordered, and whole.
This is why evangelization is never first about pressure or persuasion. It is about witness. St. Paul says elsewhere, “We are ambassadors for Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:20). An ambassador does not invent his message; he represents a reality he has encountered.
So the love of Christ compels us outward as well.
It does not remain private. It becomes mission, charity, patience, forgiveness, and courage. It becomes a life that quietly testifies that Christ is not an idea, but a living Savior.
And still, I return to the most personal level of this truth.
Because before it becomes mission, doctrine, or theology, it becomes an interior question:
If Christ has truly loved me in this way, can I continue to live as though He is not central?
The love of Christ does not force the human heart.
But it makes indifference increasingly impossible.
It draws, it awakens, it corrects, it heals, it sends.
And in the end, it does something even deeper:
It makes a new life possible.
@HandofArsenal For a player that chose us? Who forfeited €2M of his salary and bonuses, who adapted to our system, managed to score more goals than any striker in Arteta’s era in his first season?
@Arsenal_rep1 adopted to the system, 14 EPL goals more than any striker in arteta’s era but he is even being considered to being part of the exchange? For a player who scored far less in la liga? Please Arsenal don’t.