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In this homily, Father Chas reflects on the powerful truth that God’s love is offered to everyone—without exception. Whether saint or sinner, victim or offender, God desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. His love is a free gift, not something earned, and it unites us in a time when the world so often seeks to divide.
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Father Chas: Well, today I want to focus on the message of our second reading right here. God wills everyone to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. That’s everyone. Why everyone? Why does God want the bad, not just the good? Because God’s love for humanity comes first. Sometimes we can close ourselves to God’s love because we think we have to earn it.
Father Chas: No, his love is offered to us freely and unconditionally before we can even receive or reject it. I mean, parents get this, right? Parents love their children. They desire their good, whether they have a good history or a bad history.
Father Chas: And so to apply that to this hurting time, God wants not only the victims of the violence at Annunciation School and Evergreen High School to be saved, but God wants the ones who actually committed those atrocities to be saved as well. God wants the Ukrainian refugee Irina Zerutska to be saved. And he wants her assailant, DeCarlos Brown, to be saved.
Father Chas: And if God’s love and truth are offered not just to Charlie Kirk, but likewise to Tyler Robinson, they are most certainly offered to you and to me. Unlike us, God’s love doesn’t discriminate. And because God’s love is pure gift, it’s not forced upon us. It must be received by the one to whom it is offered. And that love is offered to everyone without exception.
Father Chas: No matter their background, grace, gender, religion, or lifestyle. Satan would want us to focus on what would divide us. But God wants for us to focus on what unites us.