Love Quotient

Love Quotient

Love Quotient

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Live Lent with Love Lent is an invitation to live the higher grades of Love. To experience Lent with love means caring for those who suffer, the neglected, the rejected or the abandoned. To do this we need high degree of Love Quotient (LQ). The LQ, the ability to love willingly, is the simple act of being kind towards people, be it at the workplace or with one’s own family or in ministry. We are familiar with many human intelligences such as physical quotient, emotional quotient, intelligent quotient, spiritual quotient and so on. Among all these human intelligences the most important human intelligence is LQ, the Love Quotient, the capacity to be compassionate, the capability to be human and the ability to be empathetic. In this age of robots and palmtops love quotient has great significance. Jesus’ Love Quotient Love Quotient was the supreme message of the Old Testament, “Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength (Deut 6:4-7). This was the prime message of Jesus in the New Testament, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this that he lay down his life for his friends” (John 13, 12-13). St Paul illustrates the LQ, “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends (1 Cor 13, 4-8). St John defined God as love (1 Jn 4,16). Significantly LQ is the ultimate criteria in the last judgement, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; … For whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” (Mt 25, 34-40). Love Civilization Every endeavor to grow in love quotient will lead to a civilization of love in a world where hatred and disunity reign. Prayer, penance and works of charity are the best means to grow in love quotient and thereby establishing the kingdom of love. If the passion and death of Christ was the first and most powerful super dynamic love bomb explosion the only means of continuing a similar lifestyle is by participating in His Paschal Mysteries. The more we participate in His way of the cross and in His crucifixion, the better we bring forth peace, harmony, love and life, the fruits of His resurrection. This love explosion shall gradually become a revolution of love and that in the course of time will develop a culture of love instead of a culture of death. To lay the foundation for this revolution and civilization of love, we need to deepen our friendship with Jesus, with one another, and with the most suffering and neglected of the society.