Friday, December 31 : Blessed Columba Marmion

One of the greatest revelations that Our Lord has given to us through his Incarnation is that of God’s immense desire to communicate himself to our souls in order to be their beatitude. God might have dwelt throughout eternity in the fruitful solitude of his one and triune divinity; he has no need of the creature, for nothing is wanting to him who, alone, is the fulness of being and the first cause of all things ; “I have no other happiness but you” (Ps 15:2). But having decreed, in the absolute and immutable liberty of his sovereign will, to give himself to us, the desire he has of realizing this will is infinite. We might be tempted at times to believe that God may be “indifferent,” that his desire to communicate himself is vague, inefficacious; but these are human conceptions, images of the weakness of our nature, too often unstable and powerless. In God all is pure act; that which in our miserable language we call “Divine desire, ” is an act really indistinct from the divine essence, and consequently infinite. In this as in all that touches our supernatural life, we must allow ourselves to be guided not by our imagination, but by the light of revelation. It is God Himself to whom we must listen when we wish to know the divine life; it is towards Christ that we must turn, towards the beloved Son who is ever “in the bosom of the Father” (Jn 1:18), who has himself revealed the divine secrets. What does he tell us? That “God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son” (Jn 3:16). And why has he given him? That He may be our justice, our redemption, our holiness. (…) And because God loves us, he wishes with an unbounded love and an efficacious will, to give himself to us.

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