LOVE OF DESIRE Today ends the Liturgical Year of the Church; by todays evening First Vespers, we are to be ushered into the New Year of the Church. In the responsorial Psalms of today, we sing, Come, let us cry out with joy to Yahweh, acclaim the rock of our salvation. Psalms 95:1 The first reading concludes: I am coming soon! Blessed are those who keep the prophetic message of this book. Revelation 22:7 The Gospel, warns us: Watch yourselves, or your hearts will be coarsened by debauchery and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day will come upon you unexpectedly, like a trap. (Gospel, Luke 21:34-35) We are called to love; our vocation is love; and we must desire love in order to get love. Get hearts fired with love to the Lord Jesus. Love is a grace both active and passive: Love is ACTIVE. It lays a law of constraint upon the soul. The love of Christ constrains us (2 Corinthians 5:14). Love is the wing of the soul, which sets it flying. Love is also the weight of the soul, which sets it going; Love is PASSIVE. It enables us to suffer for the sake of Love. Love is as strong as death (Canticles 8:6). Death makes its way through the greatest oppositions. So love will make its way to Christ—through the prison and the furnace. Let us be well skilled in the knowledge of Christ. A man can never die or desire for one he does not know. For which cause I suffer those things; for I know whom I have believed (2 Timothy 1:12). Enrich yourselves with knowledge. Know Christ in his virtues, offices, privileges. See the preciousness in Christ. To you who believe, he is precious (1 Peter 2:7). His name is precious; it is as ointment poured forth. His blood is precious; it is as balm poured forth. His love is precious; it is as wine poured forth. Jesus Christ is made up of all sweets and delights. He himself is all that is desirable. He is light to the eye, honey to the taste, joy to the heart. Get but the knowledge of Christ and you will part with all for him. You will embrace him though it be in the fire. An ignorant man can never be a martyr. He may set up an altar—but he will never die for an unknown or undesired God. May the Good Lord grant us the grace to Know, love and serve him. Happy New Year of the Church in advance!
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 10:18:28 +0000
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