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LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
- My Christians, how are you doing here? Have you got love for each
other? If you want to be saved, do not ask for anything else here, in the
world, but love. Is there any of you who has got this kind of love
towards his brothers? Let him rise and tell me so that I may wish him
well and make all Christians forgive him. He will receive such
forgiveness which he would have been unable to find had he given
thousands of pounds of gold.
- Holy man of God, I love God and my brothers.
- Good, my child. You have got my blessing. What is your name?
- Costas.
- What do you do for a living?
- I am a shepherd.
- Do you weigh the cheese which you sell?
- I do.
- You, my child, have learnt to weigh cheese and I have learnt to weigh
love. Is the scales ashamed of its master?
- No.
- Let me then weigh your love now and, if it is right and not false, then
I shall wish you well and I shall make all Christians forgive you. How
can I know, my child, that you love your brothers? Now that I am here and
walk and teach the people, I say that I love Mr Costas like my eyes, but
you do not believe me. You want to try me first and then believe me. I
have bread to eat, you have not. If I give a piece of it to you, who have
not, I show that I love you. But if I eat the whole loaf and you are
hungry, then what do I show? I show that the love that I feel for you is
false. I have got two cups of wine to drink, you have not. If I give you
some of it to drink, then I show that I love you. But if I do not give
you, my love is false. You are sad. Your mother or father has died. If I
come to console you then my love is true. But if you are crying and
weeping and I am eating, drinking and dancing, my love is false. Do you
love that poor child?
- I do.
- If you loved him, you would buy him a shirt because he is naked so that
he would also pray for your soul. Then your love would be true. But now
it is false. Is not it so, my Christians? We cannot go to paradise with
false love. Now, since you want to make your love gold, take and dress
the poor children and then I shall make them forgive you. Will you do this?
- I will.
- My Christians, Costas understood that the love which he had till now
was false and wants to make it gold, to dress the poor children. Because
we have edified him I beg you to tell three times for Mr Costas, may God
forgive and have mercy on him.