Agape Loving ......

Supernatural Timeless Love 

Agape that word that is always aligned to love in our homilies at church. It can be openly described as the spiritual love, the love that transcends beyond anything earthly and into the supernatural. Its the love that can only be compared to the love of God.

This love is unconditional, its a choice we make to love another person whether they love us back or not. It means that you choose to love someone even if he/she is your enemy. Agape is not based on emotion and maybe contrary to our every emotion and idea of love, it is an act of will. It is not romantic love, its a brotherly love where you have a natural chemistry with another person. According to the Greeks agape is the most radical type of love.

This type of love is not the sentimental outpouring that we misconstrue as love in our society. Agape is not conditioned based type of love nor is it sex - obsessed rather its an unconditional love bigger than ourselves, filled with boundless compassion and infinite empathy. Its the purest kind of love that breaks us from the shackles of desires and expectations and fills us with a love that loves regardless of the flaws and shortcomings of others.

The catalyst of this love is the spirit and from my understanding its the greatest love of them all. It also the love that is needed for our greater good. Its the love to end all the ills of the world.  It is the gift to all relationships, families and marriages.

The World Needs Love. 

The Church has traditionally presented eros, the passionate expression of love often turned inward toward self, and agape, the expression of love turned outward toward concern for others, as opposing perspectives.   It was refreshing and somewhat surprising that Pope Benedict’s first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, restores the connection between eros and agape. He went even further,  in stating that the eros can be positive, and that it is essential for both eros and agape with our marriages. Participating in Eucharist and becoming Eucharistic people challenges my husband and I to unite eros and agape through loving service within our to our marriage.