Saved by God's Love
Because the people broke the old covenant, God promised
a new covenant, not in the blood of oxen and other animals,
but in the blood of the Son, Jesus Christ. This new covenant,
foreseen from afar by Jeremiah and the prophets, was not to
be engraved on stone, or written on paper, but carved on our
hearts, so that we might know God intimately. Not by keeping
many laws are we to be saved, but by the love of God, living
and real in our hearts through the sacrifice of Christ.
Our Eucharist is the pledge of that indwelling of Christ,
and of our response of praise and thanksgiving to God for the
mercy, love, and kindness shown to us in forgiving our sins
and cleansing our hearts of everything evil. God issues this
invitation to intimacy by offering us the chance to have our
sufferings transformed into the perfect love of the Savior, who
first loved us.