1. Uncontrollable love is a sin.
All sins are uncontrollable forms of love. And many find it difficult to accept that what they have committed is a sin because they believe these sins are acts of love.
St. Augustine had placed it in another way when he said that sin is the absence of goodness. Another way of saying this is; sin is the absence of love or love that is out of control. Sin is distorted love. Sin is unseasonable love. Sin is love expressed wrongly. But let us stick to what St. Thomas used in his commentary of today’s Gospel; sin is uncontrollable love.
2. There are two levels of existence in the world; first, is the natural level. The second is the supernatural level.
There are many things that exist in the natural world. And there are many things that exist in the supernatural world.
In the natural world we should not love any thing more than the object deserves. We should love father, mother and brothers. We should not love a sister less than another sister.
We should not love anybody more than they deserve. To love anyone more than what they deserve is to love them uncontrollably; and St. Thomas wrote that both the one loving and the other person loved commit sin. Their sin is uncontrollable love or love devoid of goodness.
Here the semblance of love remains but there is really an absence of love. This tend to deceive many in thinking that there is love when there is none.
3. Examples. To love another woman more than one’s own wife is uncontrollable love and is, therefore, a sin. It is a sin, precisely for that reason; that there is uncontrollable love. To love other children more than your own children is uncontrollable love and is, therefore, a sin for being uncontrollable love. And this is what happens when divorce is practiced.
To love your job more than your wife is uncontrollable love because it is, St. Thomas says, giving your job the love it does not deserve. To love your computer more than your sister is a sin for the same above reason. To love to be abroad in a foreign land more than your old father is loving the foreign land more than your own father and is, therefore, uncontrollable love
As St. Thomas wrote; uncontrollable love is loving things, objects and persons more than what they deserve. And this is a sin.
4. St.Thomas puts it in another way. He wrote that uncontrollable love is when one passes the due measure and bound of love so that both he who loves and he who is loved will be in sin.
He who loves an atheist more than a believer. He who loves a evangelical Pentecostal more than a Catholic. He who loves a Mason more than a Christian. He who loves a Muslim more than a countryman. One who loves a homo more than a heterosexual. One who loves a tranvestite more than a normal man. One who loves a heretical bishop more than a regular bishop. One who loves the SSPX more than than the Franciscans of the Immaculata. One who loves the Novus Ordo more than the Old Mass. And news shows that Pope Francis is guilty of all of these uncontrollable loves making him the most sinful Pope we know.
5. The natural and the supernatural
He who loves the natural more than the supernatural has an uncontrollable love for the natural and, therefore, commits sin.
And this is the great sin of the world today; giving due undeserved love to the things of the world which the world does not deserve. This is uncontrollable love and is, therefore, a sin. Love is most dangerous when it is uncontrolled, repeated St. Thomas.
Since the natural world can be sensed while the supernatural world cannot be sensed, there is a great tendency to love the natural more than the supernatural thus preventing most men not to be able to make an act of Faith, which is a supernatural Act.
Pope Francis from the very beginning of his Pontificate had showed his uncontrollable love for the natural and practically nothing for the supernatural showing his great sin of uncontrollable love. His well publicized first papal speech entitled ‘Love without dogma’ is uncontrollable love for Protestant teachings over Catholic teachings. That uncontrollable love destroys the very foundation of Catholic theology.
His so many uncontrollable love for public relation gimmicks over true humility is a sin. His uncontrollable love practically shows he has no Faith, Hope and Charity. And as a consequcnce he surely does not have the four visible signs of the true Church and St. Robert Bellamine’s 15 Marks of the Church.
6. The HELPS.
What helps us control our love for natural things is the baptism of water that St. John preached. The ancient prophets taught us how much each natural things should be loved. A summary list can be seen in the 10 commandments of God.
What help us love the supernatural more than the natural is the baptism of the Spirit.
So there we have two baptisms and how they help us give everything around us the love that is deserved.
7. The Gospel message.
The Jews were showing uncontrollable love towards St. John the Baptist giving him a love not his due but is due to the Messiah so they had to be corrected. They should love St. John but they must love Christ first and foremost before loving St. John. St. John did not want to be loved more than what he deserved. And all of us should feel the same. We must wish to be loved according to what is due to us. .
8. We cannot give the exact worth of all things. We cannot say that love of brothers must be 80 percent and love of sisters is 75 percent. We can just compare; like we should love parents more than brothers; love God more than neighbor. Love the faithful more than the atheist. Love the Catholic more than the Evangelical Pentecostals. Love the faithful bishops more than the Protestant bishop.
Again, it is difficult to detect uncontrollable love. It is almost similar to ‘secret sins,’ as described in the Psalms because both are acts of love, like love of parents and love of brothers. And yet when we love parents and brothers more than God, then both we, parents and brothers commit sins
Christ, Himself, reminded us. ‘He who loves father, mother, brother, sister, homes and lands more than Me is unworthy of Me.
9. The modern world is saturated with a million things all uncontrollably loved. Most obvious is the love of this world over the spiritual world. Unable to control one’s love for the world, everyone is unable to love the spiritual world. Like the Jews we show love due to the Messiah to John the Prophet. For this we deserve more evangelical chastisement than the gift of the Holy Spirit.