The more this generous spirit springs up in your heart, the nearer and dearer will you be to Jesus. Love for Love. Blood for Blood. Life for Life. Will you give Him all?
COMMENT: God has given us everything we have. The saints were profoundly grateful people – they knew the debt they owed to God. But more than this, they repaid that debt through their love, through their action, and, in some cases (including Fr Doyle himself), they repaid this debt with their own blood and their own lives.
St John of the Cross taught that: “Love is repaid with love alone”. St Ignatius of Loyola tells us that love is more than nice feelings, rather, as he says:
Love is shown in deeds more than in words.
God has given us everything. We can never really do enough to repay that debt.
Father Doyle,
Please intercede for us that we will be eager to strive for oneness with Christ, by which we will grow into that person whom God has destined us to be. It’s not about acting good and generous, compassionate, etc. but by being good, being generous, being compassionate. Hard work, but with your help, Father Doyle, and imitating your Christ-like sacrifice, and charity, we can make this endeavor our own.