What true love for God involves

It is trapped in a purely retributive kind of justice, hardly paying attention to the need for restorative and reformative justice.

- Fr. Roy Cimagala

And why does Christ command us to love even our enemies? The simple reason is that no matter how other people are, the fact remains that we are all children of God, brothers and sisters of each other, and bound to love each other.

While the distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, virtue and sin will always be maintained, and acted on accordingly, we should never forget that in the end we are meant to love everyone.

Yes, we are meant for loving. That's what would actually bring us to the fullness of our humanity. That's what would make us God's image and likeness as he wants us to be. That's why loving God and everybody else in the way God loves everyone, is the greatest and the second greatest commandments God has for us.