Wisdom Wednesday

Work Out your Salvation A condensed version of a Fathers of Mercy retreat

Be Other-Centered - Part II

God sends the people out two by two because charity is two-fold: love of God and love of neighbor.  You love your neighbor who you can see so to prepare yourself for loving God who you cannot see.  The Lord's mercy is great, constant, and everlasting.  You must pass on the mercy God gives you to your neighbor.  Be merciful and God will have mercy on you.   If you love one another, you remain in God and God remains in you.  God is love, so if you love, God is with you.  Perfect love is without fear.  Whoever loves God must love his neighbor.  Love is to be sought after in the ordinary circumstances of daily life.  You must see God in everyone. Give truth to your neighbor and hope they act on it.  Listen intently to your neighbor's needs, speak seldon, and never be unjustly angry at them.

Galatians 5:13-14 "Out of love, place yourselves at the otherr's service...love one another as yourself." Pope Bl. John Paul II said, "The giving of oneself brings with it an enrichment of neself," and, "The value of a human being is seen in Jesus' becoming man in the womb of a woman." Archbishop Fulton Sheen said, "God took on human nature so that we can take part in Jesus' Divine Nature." St. Faustina said that she wanted her tongue to be healed from all faults. "I want my tongue to praise God without cease... How sad it is when we cause loss of grace to ourselves."

Serving God and serving your neighbor who needs your attention are equally pleasing to God.  Charity is greater than any rule and all rules chould lead to charity.  It is most rewarding to give love and charity to those who cannot give in return.  To say thank you is to take a moment to acknowledge another's goodness.  Make sacrifices for sinners and you will be rewarded for your efforts to save a soul.  Offer the simplest task as a sacrifice for others.  Make a deliberate act of the will to offer an act to God.  Give your all to an annoying task and save souls.  Love is the fulfillment of the law. 

St. Basil said, "Anger is a type of temporary madness." St. Faustina said, "Whenever I see the fortunes of others, I rejoice in it as if it was my own. " The Angel of Portugal said, "Make of everything a sacrifice."  Saint Edith Stein served God ceaselessly in the horrific environment of the Nazi prison camp, offering all for the love of God and the salvtion of souls.  St. Faustina said, "Little daily sacrifices are like flowers I strew over the feet of Jesus..."