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Saint Térèse of the
Child Jesus, a moment
before dying, exclaimed:
“My God, I love You!”
The Good Thief, through
one act of perfect love
of God, in his death
hour, obtained certain
salvation. The last act
of the dying Savior was
one of the purest Love
for the heavenly Father.
Our Lady and Saint
Joseph breathed forth
their chaste souls in
the most perfect love of
God.
The act of love of God
is the most beneficial,
the most consoling and
the most meritorious
conceivable. Christians
achieve the perfection of merit and of
grace every time they make a perfect
act of love of God. No words man can
utter are so acceptable to God as the
telling of man’s love for his infinite
Maker.
Imagine the pleasure with which God
contemplates a parish continuously
echoing with acts of Divine Love! If,
from early morning until late at night,
from north and south, and east and west
of a parish, come tens of thousands of
fervent acts of love, God’s satisfaction
must be similar to the joy that Christ
experienced in the Good Thief’s dying
act of sympathetic love, only multiplied
indefinitely.
If all children, all youth, all persons
working at home, in the fields, in
factories, stores or offices, and all the
sick and the aged, were taught to wage
a continuous bombardment of the Divine
Heart of Jesus with shafts
of love, the parish where
this is obtain, would be
cherished as the apple
of God’s Eye.
God would reign as
King in such a parish,
constantly sending up
acts of Divine Love.
Instead of giving offense
to the Almighty by
blasphemies, irreverent
profanations of the Holy
Name, or by foul or
suggestive stories, the
faithful of all conditions
in life would be fulfilling
the purpose of their
creation in working, in
bearing their crosses,
and in living their entire
lives out of purest and
most ardent love of God.
To begin one’s day with an act of
love of God is ideal. By making the
first voluntary act in the morning one
of love of God, the likelihood is that
the remaining moments of the day
will be devoted to God.
L
et the mind be trained to think love
of God, the lips to elicit acts of love of
God, the body and limbs to work out
of love of God, so that all that we
think or say or do will be permeated
through and through with the spirit of
Divine Love.
On the way to Mass and Holy
Communion. let the theme song be: “O
my God, I love Thee.” The journey homeward
can become one of prolonged
thanksgiving, through repeating the
prayer: “O my God. I do love Thee.”
During the day, the faithful should