Love is the essence of Christianity

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Love is the essence of Christianity. God the Father sent His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to die for and redeem the whole of mankind from the clutches of sins and Satan. Having obeyed till death, the oblation of the Son should be remembered so that the Holy Eucharist where the Son's Sacrifice is recalled and relived was instituted. The Holy Spirit assists in the Transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ during Consecration and the redeemed receive the actual Christ through Holy Communion to give us strength to live holily throughout this earth-life and on to the life beyond with the Blessed Trinity. Hence, the Love of God is defined through this very act of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Should we mention love everytime we talk or write about the things of God and holiness? If and when we fail to mention love, does it follow divine preachings or writings are devoid of this love as the ultimate goal of every Christian? If and when a husband keeps telling his wife he loves her many times in a day, does it follow he really loves her in the truest sense of the word? The wife must be wary and nervous of the husband's possible infidelity by hiding or covering it up through constant saying "I love you!" Love is expressed more in actions than in speech in order for it to be real. Too much PDAs, however, are expressions to show off to people rather than to the wife or husband. The Holy Eucharist is the ultimate expression of the Divine Love towards humanity. When one receives the Eucharist into his being and the realization he is loved divinely from his core, he is overwhelmed at this love divine and is lost for words to express it but in trembling, panting and sobbing. And yet, the congregation is scandalized by man's non-word expressions of love to the Holy Eucharist so that the clerics preach against man's love manifestations and the congregation picks up the sermon as a go-signal to persecute the man. Where is love there? One more thing, when prayers and sacrifices are being mentioned as the be-all and end-all to all spiritual concerns, it is first born out of love in action and the ultimate prayers and sacrifices boil down to the Holy Eucharist, the source and strength of other prayers and sacrifices. The Holy Eucharist is the way of perfection of man. But why are there mass-goers (Traditional Latin Mass-goers, at that!) who cannot control their "demons"? Because there is no intentional decision and will to level up spiritually for the love of God. The Holy Scriptures are not empty words but a record of love in action so thus Holy Traditions, love in action passed on down from generations to generations via word of mouth. If and when the absence of love being mentioned in the literary and oratorical expressions of the divine were due and lead to self-love, I beg to disagree. Love as the essence of Christianity is a given and an experience before it was ever written or spoken.