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.
Much to think about in the above passage. We can only keep trying to love and stay faithful to God- how true that we could never do this adequately, for God’s love for us is beyond our imagining.
Father Doyle, please remember all of our sick loved ones.