Monday, July 22 : Saint Bernard

The return of the soul is its conversion to the Word, so that God may reform her and make her in conformity with Himself. In what ? In love (…). Such conformity espouses the soul to the Word. for one Who is the Word by nature shows himself like him too in the exercise will, loving as she is loved. When she loves perfectly, the soul is espoused to the Word. What is lovelier than this conformity? What more desirable than charity, by whose operation, 0 soul, not content with a human master, you approach the Word with confidence, cling to him with constancy, speak to him as to a familiar friend, and refer to him in every matter with an intellectual grasp proportionate to the boldness of your desire’? Truly this is a spiritual contract, a holy marriage. The love of the husband, or better the husband who is love, only asks for reciprocity and loyalty. So allow the beloved to love in return. How would she not like, she who is the spouse, and the spouse of love? How could love not be loved?

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