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CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT LOVE

Sixth Sunday of Easter May 06, 2018 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Acts 10:25-26;34-35;44-48   Psalm 98:1-4 I John 4:7-10   John 15:9-17         + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.        I came of age in the free-love 1960s, which was widely understood to mean, free sex. In particular, I remember 1967, known as the Summer of Love. It was a social phenomenon, characterized by hundreds of thousands of young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior who converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and elsewhere. They gathered to celebrate an alternative culture to replace the materialism and consumerism that characterized mainstream life in the 1950s and early 1960s.   But the 1960s was more than a sexual free-for-all. The 1960s had a serious and everlasting message as well, one we would do well to h...