More than sentiment

...delegations to Central America since 1983, most recently, in The Nicaraguan revolution is clearly imperfect...

...A love means in this context, but God's...

...Sovereign nations determine for themselves Guinea, seeing no hope in a war which only seems to grind on what respects their sovereignty...

...That of love had to do with the pleasing of the Our desire for God is part of what love deification is shown to us in the revela- self and the satisfaction of desire...

...domination, will trade that for Soviet or Cuban dominaOthers, like the family mentioned above, are killed simply tion reveals a lack of familiarity or concern for the needs, because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time...

...There is what equivalent to lust, as in "love-goddess...

...sickening feeling to gaze into the timid, innocent, and uncom- Whether or not we recognize that Nicaragua has the right to prehending eyes of a seven-year-old boy whose sister, mother, chart its own course and make its own mistakes, we cannot and grandmother have been murdered and to realize, even avoid the fact that many, many Nicaraguans are clearly willing though he doesn't, that our tax dollars are funding the war that to die...

...There really is no greater tragedy than our ability to be indifferent before what we have been ,refe given, and no better proof of original sin's real effect...

...Our tianity found the word "love" and trans- nent much too important...

...Here we obviously can't by how we, limited and dimmed our- us, and whose love consisted in showing include very possible reach of the word, selves by original sin, invariably do tend us at once an emptying and a transfigurafrom the love someone talks about when to mean it...

...In a Congress refuses to pay for it...

...God becomes human, transfiguration of the ordinary language bread and wine, food we need and enjoy...

...Despite everything we are given, moment to moment (Caussade uses the wonderful phrase, "the sacrament of the present moment"), we are cold-hearted, halfattentive at best, and bored...

...Instead, pressive social gains it had achieved before the war curtailed with the help of informants and, apparently, as a matter of such efforts show it also to be, on the whole, an earnest attempt policy, they consistently target those who lend any support to to serve the poor majority...

...made breakfast for them and they did not The thing Christians must hear and Think of what the Eucharist means: dare to ask who he was...

...Chris- a use which makes its emotional compo- world we are very lucky to live on...

...JOHN GARVEY Commonweal: 362...

...It isn't ally should have become accountants, - whatever it means - vary so widely at wise to park in a place where you might who turn to philosophy and insist on a times that we ought to look at them with get a ticket, but this isn't what Plato word meaning exactly one thing, or if not some concern...

...Jesus roots mean desire, but because of Christ of bread and wine, and receive it back as suffers, after being born into a family, as it has been thrown into relief by a new Christ's presence...

...It is a aspirations, and determination of the Nicaraguan people...

...And since the current U.S...

...On behalf of the Felarms, clutches each shoulder, trembles all over, and solemnly lowship of Reconciliation and Witness for Peace, he has led six says, "The dogs never lie...

...solidify popular support, it will do what it feels necessary to In January, U.S...

...Margarita Bermudez, a wizened peasant woman whose face policy in Nicaragua is war, our government will not support traces the strain of her long, hard life, spoke of the continuing Contadora, despite our growing international isolation on that violence in Los Angeles and the steady stream of migration it position, so there will continue to be war...

...It is a word which is limited it inside out...

...Unless, of course, has produced to larger, more secure population centers...

...This give and take is all of us are...

...will be likely to accept the culture's thin take such basic and wonderful things as But loving and living and dying take and sentimental use of the word "love," bread and wine from the surface of a on new significance in Christ...

...return of those blessings to him is given formed it, found it as God found the flesh The work of Christianity often seems back to us as the Eucharist...

...cally reveal, it is all too often the innocent who are being In this situation, while the government can do little to slaughtered...

...not Central American, interests...

...really imagine...

...desire tion of the uncreated light of Mount which means the emptying of everything for us is much more impressive, and unTabor and in the mysterious appearance that can receive love is paradoxical - limited, and it is a form of help which of Christ as a stranger to Mary Mag- except where it exists in practice and can makes the word help seem very small...

...when that regard means a love willing to all, we also need Christ's central and Christianity deals with incarnation - die for the other, an emptying even of the transforming example of love to keep our the Word made flesh - and with trans- self, which under all previous definitions notions of love from being sentimental...

...figuration - the flesh deified...

...Meanwhile, most of the population of Nueva the contras...

...In Spanish a word frequently knowledge) in having a wide range of edges, this plain across which a word can translated as love really means want or uses, extending from the most trival wander without being lost, is necessary...

...God so loved the world that and say that those who abide in love not only by what it can mean in theory but he gave it his son, who was murdered for abide in God...

...If we need a wide and sloppy use something more than commitment, as meant "regard me as I regard you" - of words like "love" to be able to talk at welcome as that idea is...

...As visits to the war zones graphiclaimed their lives...

...U.S...

...You The point may be difficult to accept for ically useful distinction between eros can trust that a certain toothpaste will do those philosophers of language who re- and agape, the ways we talk about love the job, and you can trust a friend...

...So we is help we are given on our terms, and it tion, and to the disciples on the road to return, through transfiguration, to the brings us forward into places we cannot Emmaus, and to those he served when he most radical incarnation...

...desire, and although Greek has a theologareas of life to the most essential...

...infiltration, while only exacerbating the government's predi- "would have to wait and see whether it respects the cament, are nonetheless predictable, whether because of in- sovereignty of (those) countries" before deciding whether or adequate training, poor discipline, or immature or crazed not to support it (i.e., whether the U.S...

...spite of the war...

...A bearnaise sauce love for one's children...

...In its roots in other important words (faith, done in just the right way is good, and so almost every language the word has to do trust, hope, care, wisdom, good, is a saint...

...This broad territory with fuzzy with desire...

...But a language is not a series of definitions so much as it is a series of gestures MORE THAN SENTIMENT and a set of associations...

...It seems to be learn before they can pretend to teach it is God gives us grain and grapes, and essential in John's Gospel that Jesus ap- what love means, in the new light of the through our labors we make these into pears as a stranger...

...takes on all the significance we ourselves we use about love...

...If we were to stop at this point word we use about our relationship to our could have imagined we could give or with our consideration of what it means wives, husbands, children, and friends receive...

...20 June 1986: 361 As Christians, we speak of God as love God gave us...

...not have seen without him Christ has seems to be a deliberate upsetting of the To say that God is love and that we must made the word "love" what it was not, categories we find important, and a joy love one another means something more and could not have been, without him...

...A word like THE LANGUAGES OF LOVE "love" is important precisely because it has such a multivalent use, and we would not be better off if the word could not encompass a love for chocolate and a THE WORD "love" is like some meant by wisdom...

...PHILIP McMANUS tone that pleads for solace she says, "I am terrified when I hear (Philip McManus is on the staff of the Resource Center for the dogs bark in the night...

...for their revolution...

...Eastern Bloc influence is significant...

...The co-op in Los bly with other Central American countries in that regard, in Angeles is defunct because the members fear for their lives...

...The im- January and February, to Nicaragua and Costa Rica...

...This word may in its we return it as thanks to God in the form give to what it means to be human...

...While it has been less vigilant in the revolution: health workers, teachers, individual militia defense of political liberties, it nonetheless compares favoramembers, members of cooperative farms...

...We have only to accept it and try to live the consequences of what should be a radical gratitude...

...God calls us forth from nothing, to be human we would already have a and, most difficult of all, enemies, we gives us the ability to work with him and strong story...

...But the The contras have killed twenty-one members of the nearby charge that Nicaragua, after decades of struggle to throw off Jacinto Vaca co-op which nonetheless continues to produce...

...Military abuses of authority to combat contra American nations signed a Contadora Peace Treaty, the U.S...

...Obviously, the ambassador and to grind them up, desperately grasps at an illusory neu- was speaking on behalf of the administration's view of U.S., trality and finds instead fear and helplessness...

...tion of the ordinary ways we think of love he says he loves pizza to the love which is By showing us something we could and self-satisfaction...

...beneath and behind all of it, in God's will than strong affection and attraction, even Love without Christ could not have for us...

...would continue to fund individuals...

...It dalene in the garden after his Resurrec- be seen to bear fruit in the flesh...

...To demonstrate, she crosses her Nonviolence in Santa Cruz, California...

...one thing one list of things which can't Of several minds: John Garvey move beyond boundaries with clear limits...

...If we do not one in which God is able to give us not his soul is "filled with dismay and understand the transformation of the only what we need, but more than we dread...

...Ambassador to Costa Rica Louis Tambs maintain military control in the face of foreign-sponsored told a visiting delegation that even in the event that the Central aggression...

...He dies, and before his death light which shines behind it...

...It is a kind of fear...

...that was there, the kind we have, the kind to be to take a word or an idea and to turn To have been called forth from nothing and given the fullness of divine life means that we are given life so fully, so completely, that there is literally nothing more we can do...