Monday, October 4 : Blessed Charles de Foucauld

How good you are, O divine Samaritan, to gather up this wounded world so sadly fallen along the way, trapped in such mire and so unworthy of your goodness! The more wicked the world, the more your mercy shines forth: to be infinitely good to the good is a thousand times less admirable than to be infinitely good to souls who, even though lavished with graces, are simply ungrateful, unfaithful, perverse. The more wicked we are the more the marvel of your infinite mercy gleams and shines. This in itself suffices to explain the great good that sin produces on the earth and explains why you permit it. It makes way for an incomparable greater good: the exercise and manifestation of your divine mercy. This divine attribute could not be put into practice without it; goodness could be exercised and shown without sin but failure is needed if mercy is to be manifested. Ah! My Lord and God, how good you are! How merciful! Mercy is, so to speak, the overflow of your goodness and what is most passionate in your goodness, the weight by which your goodness overcomes your justice. How divinely good you are! (…) Be kind to sinners since God is so kind to us: pray for them, love them. (…) “Be merciful as our Father is merciful” (cf. Lk 6:36). God “prefers mercy to sacrifice” (cf. Mt 12:7).

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