Sunday, August 18 : Blessed Columba Marmion

“See, says Saint John, what love the Father bears us: we are not only called the Son of God, we are actually so.” (1 Jn 3,1). God is our Father, he loves us with an incomprehensible dilection. All the love that exists in the world comes from him and is only a shadow of his boundless charity. (…) Now, love tends to give itself; Thus, it is more united to the object of its affection. God is love itself (1 Jn 4, 8); He has an always current and intense desire to communicate to us. (…) This Son, who shares the Father’s love, wanted to accept the condition of the servant and accept even the cross (cf. Jn 15, 13). And now again, he hides under the appearances of bread and wine, in order to penetrate us and unite with us the most intimate manner. Holy Eucharistic is the last effort of the dilection which aspires to give itself; It is the prodigy of all power put at the service of infinity charity. All the works of God are perfect (cf. Dt 32,4). This is why the Heavenly Father prepared for his children a feast worthy of him. They do not serve them material food, nor a manna descended from the sky; He gives them the body and blood, and the soul and divinity of his only Son Jesus Christ. During this life, we will never grasp all the greatness of this gift; Even in heaven, we will not quite understand it, because the Eucharist is God who communicates, and he alone knows himself. (…) By communion, we have the Holy Trinity in our hearts, for the Father and the Holy Spirit are necessarily where the Son is: there are three in the same and unique essence.

Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team