Pope Michael's thoughts on charity.
Beginning with the Feast of the Sacred Heart, We shall be posting thoughts on charity. This is an ongoing project, since we should slowly study charity so as to acquire this indispensable virtue.
Matthew 24:12: And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.
June 14th Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: At the period of Jesus’ coming upon this earth, man had forgotten how to love, for he had forgotten what true beauty was. … Dom Gueranger for today, the Feast of the Sacred Heart. As to the sweet eloquence of those throbbings of His Heart, it is reserved for the time when the world has grown old, and has become cold in God’s love, that it may regain favor by the hearing such revelation. The latter Gueranger quote is from Saint Gertrude, who questioned Saint John the Evangelist upon why he had not mentioned devotion to the Sacred Heart in his Gospel.
I Corinthians 13 can be called the charity epistle. Charity can be summarized as love of God and love of our neighbor for the love of God. Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.Charity begins with love of God and will last throughout eternity. In fact, if we do not have charity when we die, then we condemn ourself to eternal misery in hell.
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