YOU CAN'T STOP LOVE=Saint Ignatius of ANTIOCH
You cannot stop LIFE
And LOVE in this world=
The life of Christ
PROVES THAT
MANY tried to STOP him=
But life and LOVE
Lived on
“Woe to you
Experts in the law
Because you
Have taken away
The key to knowledge
You yourselves have
NOT ENTERED=
And you have hindered
Those who were entering” Luke 11:52
What a terrible condemnation
That that is=
Trying to STOP anyone
From entering
LIFE AND LOVE
YOU CAN'T STOP LOVE!
CHRIST'S LOVE proved this=
And so did the lives
OF OUR SAINTS
Particularly the life
Of our SAINT TODAY=
Saint Ignatius of Antioch
AUTHORITIES seized Ignatius=
Who was HEAD of one of
The churches
Being BORN
In the early SECOND century
They conveyed Ignatius=
CHAINED HIM=on the long journey
From Turkey to Rome
For public execution
They didn't want him to be
LIKE CHRIST=and wanted to
STOP OTHERS
From being like CHRIST
But you CAN'T STOP love
And life in CHRIST=
It moves on
Life and LOVE live on
“For this
Is what the high
And exalted ONE says--------
He who LIVES FOREVER-
Whose name is holy” Isaiah 57:15
“........the Spirit of TRUTH--------
The world cannot
Accept him
Because it neither sees him
Nor knows him
But you know him
For he LIVES with you
And will be in you” John 14:17
Ending Christ's life=did
NOT STOP LOVE=
And it did not stop
With the end of Saint Ignatius=
Or any the other Saint's lives either
Instead it brought them
To the threshold of IMMORTALITY
And it ENCOURAGED PEOPLE
Like us
To follow the
LIVES of the saints
And Christ=IN LOVE
Ignatius lived a life
Of COURAGE AND FAITH=
We can too
Have a life that LIVES ON
“You ought to LIVE
Holy and godly LIVES
As you look forward
To the day of GOD
And speed its coming” 2 Peter 3:11-12
NOTHING can stop us from
LIVING a life of
FOLLOWING Christ and the Saints
Let us NOT get
In each others' way
In the name of Jesus=and God=the FATHER of all love
Robert P. Wallman
10-16-19
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Mary Marrocco
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