Saturday, February 4 : Saint Caesarius of Arles

The true kindness in the heavens (cf. Ps 36[35],6) is Christ our Lord. How gentle and good is that which, without anyone looking for it, freely came down from heaven and humbled itself that it might raise us up… Christ promised to be with us until the end of time, as he himself said in the Gospel: “Behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age” (Mt 28,20). Look at his kindness, my brethren: even now he is in heaven at the right hand of the Father and yet he still longs to toil together with us on earth. He wants to be hungry and thirsty with us, to suffer with us, to be a stranger with us, and he does not even shrink from dying and being put into prison with us (Mt 25,35f.)… See what his love for us is like: in his unspeakable tenderness he desires to undergo within us all these evils. Yes, the true kindness from the heavens, that is to say Christ our Lord, created you when you did not as yet exist, sought you when you were lost, ransomed you when you were sold… And now again, every day, Christ deigns to be incorporated into humankind. But, alas, not everyone is willing to open the door of their heart.
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