Mt14:13 The Graces of the Multiplication of the Love of God

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From: WILLIAM . . .
To: Fr Donald . . .
Sent: Tue, 2 August, 2011 9:34:33
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Dear Father Donald,

 

I am mesmerized by this extract from Benedict XVI Sacramentum Caritatis highlighted on your Blog:

 

The Eucharist reveals the loving plan that guides all of salvation history. There the Deus Trinitas, who is essentially love, becomes fully a part of our human condition. In the bread and wine under whose appearances Christ gives himself to us in the paschal meal, God's whole life encounters us and is sacramentally shared with us. God is a perfect communion of love between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. At creation itself, man was called to have some share in God's breath of life. But it is in Christ, dead and risen, and in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, given without measure, that we have become sharers of God's inmost life.

 

For me, Benedict XVI's words give express meaning to the mystical passage in 1 John 4 within the celebration of the Eucharist:

The church of Sancta Maria in Rhodes. 
It is run by the Franciscans. (photo Anne Marie)

1 Jn 4: 9 God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins...13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit

I shall yet be dwelling upon this remarkable piece of writing for days. The title of your post could be "The Graces of the Multiplication of the Love of God".

 

Thank you for presenting it to us.

 

. . . in Our Lord,

William