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The following is an excerpt from the book, Love One Another by Louis Colin, C.SS.R.
Again, why should we love our neighbor? Simply because he is God's child, and our own brother. We are born, not only of blood, nor of the will of the flesh and man, but of God, ex Deo nati (John 1:13).
Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called, and should be the sons of God (1 John 3:1).
This is a mysterious begetting, a spiritual rebirth. Nobody may see the kingdom of God unless he is reborn (John 3:3). This rebirth is nothing other than a resemblance to and a participation in, the eternal generation of the Word. Just as He has communicated all His substance, attributes and glory to His Son, so also the Father has infused into our humanity something of His divinity, and of His infinite perfections, partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4).
Behold man, an earthly creature, suddenly raised to Heaven sharing intimately in the Trinitarian life and become himself also the son of the Almighty! His child, not His creature, servant, slave, thing, but His child! What a name! How noble, splendid, rich and holy! His child, who becomes His heir tomorrow! For everything which the Father possesses and is will become the child's property in an endless Vision of love: And if a son, an heir also (Gal. 4:7). The child and living image of God Himself. Dii estis (Ps. 81:6).
Is it possible then that we should no love this soul, "for the love of God, from whom, by whom and for whom she is ... whom she resembles in a most particular manner." (St. Francis de Sales, Treatise on the Love of God, p. 442) Every man who brushes past us, however miserable he be, is a prodigious being, greater than the entire universe since he is the child of God! Do we ever even think of this?
Ignorance of, or indifference to, this truth explains the lack, or mediocrity, of our fraternal love, though it does not always excuse it. Instead of considering our neighbor in the light of faith, we look upon him through our fleshly eyes. Seeing merely the man, with all his deficiencies, weaknesses, miseries, we can only love him with a purely human, fragile, variable love.
Ah, if every Christian appeared to us as he is in God's reflection, without perhaps going as far as St. Francis de Sales would wish, to the point "of casting ourselves upon his neck, caressing him, weeping over him with love ... invoking upon him thousands of blessings", (ibid., p. 441) what respect, what consideration, and what affability would we not show towards him! How anxious we would be to oblige him, to avoid offending or injuring him! How quick to serve him--in short, what divine, purely disinterested, devoted and selfless love we would have for him! It would be a reproduction or rather an extension of that love which we bear for God Himself.
Everybody--in reality, or at least potentially--is a child of God; therefore all are brothers.
Beside, or rather above, a certain human fraternity, which one is somewhat ashamed of mentioning in our days, there exists another divine brotherhood, not of blood, but of spirit, which carries no overtones of sinister mockery. All are Christ's brothers in the Fatherhood of God. Humanity is an immense universal family whose members can and should love each other, without even having met or known each other. There are no strangers, and above all, no enemies in this family; none other than brothers who march, shoulder to shoulder, as travelers towards their final Fatherland in the Father's house. For a Christian, every man is a brother whom he loves--according to nature's law--with a brotherly love. Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood (Rom. 12:10).
What shame for God, and what suffering it causes His paternal heart to behold brothers, His beloved sons, separated by indifference, or disunited by hate! What he insists upon in everyone is a total reciprocal love. In His kingdom, there is no vestige of jealousy, hate, dissension, wickedness, or vengeance. There is only peace and joy in the blossoming of immutable charity. (pp. 14-16)
"My child and My children, if I could take you with Me and give you the eyes to see and the ears to hear, you'll understand why I have cried out to you in the past to protect your soul, your children's souls, your families, and accept as a victim soul the graces given to you from Heaven to reach out with to save others. For charity and love of heart knows no bounds, no restrictions, but in giving does one really bring forth the true meaning of love." - Our Lady of the Roses, June 18, 1981
Our Lady of
the Roses Bayside messages:
These messages came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica
Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.
PURPOSE OF LIFE
"While you are upon earth you are there to do honor and glory to your God in
Heaven. You must know Him, love Him, and serve Him in this world, so that you
will be happy with Him forever in the next." - Our Lady, June 1, 1978
FEAR
"Yes, My child, you will feel faint at the knowledge of the existence of hell.
Better that mankind has fear of the Eternal Father if he does not have love! For
now many are in a void of spirit. They neither know their God, nor do they care
to know their God. " - Our Lady, March 29, 1975
FIRST COMMANDMENT
"Any priest that tells you that you must love your neighbor first and God
second, he is not a true man of God nor is he a true Roman Catholic priest, nor
is he a true minister of any denomination. Because the first Commandment of God
the Father is: 'I am the Lord thy God, thou shall not have strange gods before
Me.'" - Our Lady, June 18, 1982
TRUE MEANING
"But so few know the true meaning of love. Love is in giving. Love is in
caring. But love above all is God, your God. For no man knows the full meaning
of love until he has reached out and become a man of God, a true child of the
light; for then he will also be a keeper of the eternal flame, the Holy Spirit."
- Jesus, June l8, 1981
EXAMPLE
"I speak to all the children of the world. You have been given armor and graces
to rescue your brothers and sisters in this battle. Do not waste these graces,
but multiply them. Disperse among the world a fine example of charity and
faith." - St. Paul, July 1, 1973
EVEN DEATH
"I consign you, My children, all who hear your Mother's voice, as bearers of
light. Go forward with Jesus, My Son, as your confidence. Approach your brothers
and sisters, for what greater glory, what greater love can a man give to one
another but to even face death to save him." - Our Lady, May 14, 1977
SANCTITY
"Remember, My child and My children, no matter what course you proceed upon,
if you do not have charity for your neighbor, you have stopped in your progress
to sanctity." - Our Lady, May 20, 1978
TRUE LOVE
"Pray, My children, for your priests, your bishops, your cardinals. Too few
pray for them, for in their awe and their knowledge, they believed in the past,
My children, that these Hierarchy had a special passport to Heaven. No, My
children, they have a human nature also, and human frailties, and must be
protected by prayer and penance and sacrifice, and this means the prayer,
penance and sacrifice of others also, for them. In your charity of heart, in
your love of human nature that We hear man speaking of as he falls into the
errors of modernism and humanism-true love lies in prayers and sacrifice for an
individual, for when you come over the veil, I assure you, it is only love and
prayers that can follow you." - Jesus, May 20, 1978
Directives
D20 - Importance of Prayer (Part 1) PDF
D21 - Importance of Prayer (Part 2) PDF
D31 - Love of God PDF
D32 - Love of Neighbor PDF
D78 - Charity PDF
Articles
Love of God and love of neighbor
Colin2.htmChristian charity for our enemies
Colin3.htm
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