God's Love for Us Is Eternal; the Bond Cannot be Broken!

"...[G]reat in  [our] midst is the Holy One of Israel," the God who calls us daily out of the place of slavery, the God who teaches us to walk in His ways, the God who carries us in His arms; who draws us to himself "with bands of love"; who fosters us "like one who raise[s] an infant to his cheeks. Yet, though God stoop[s] to feed [us, we do not] know that [God is our] leader."  That lament from Hosea 11: 1, 3-4, 8c-9, is as true about us today as it was for the Israelites to whom Hosea was speaking.  God is a God of love, a God who watches over us as a shepherd guards his sheep!  A God who gave  His life as the Son of Man, who, on the cross, drew all of us to Himself and redeemed us from Satan's forces of evil--the evil spirits--that roam the earth looking for someone to destroy! Jealous of our inheritance of heaven, a gift of being ransomed by Jesus, Satan is tireless in his efforts to keep us our of heaven. He will succeed as, in a baptism, Jesus took  us as His own. His Sacred Heart was pierced on the cross and blood and water poured  forth, filling our baptismal fonts and our chalices with the blood of the New Covenant. We belong to God forever!