Sunday, March 17 : Blessed Columba Marmion

To believe is to participate in the knowledge that God has of himself and of all things in Him. Through the exercise of this virtue, our life is like a reflection of his life. When the soul is filled with faith, it sees, so to speak, through the eyes of God. Now, what does the father eternally contemplate? His son. He knows, he loves everything in him. This look and this love are essential to it. Right now, what is it looking at? The Word, his equal, become a man out of love. The father appreciates his son infinitely, divinely, as he alone can do; This is why Christ belongs entirely to Him; Everything he does is ordered his glory: “I glorified him and I will glorify it again” (Jn 12,28). He wants his son to be recognized by reasonable creatures with the reverence due to his divinity. When he introduced him into this world, he wanted “all angels to love him” (He 1,6). He claims men the same tribute. The father wants “that everyone honors the son as the Father” (Jn 5, 23). And, in Thabor, did he not demand everyone to “believe in the words of Jesus, since they were those of his beloved Son” (Mt 17, 5)? If we looked at Christ through the Father’s eyes, the price we would attach to the dignity of his person, to the extent of his merits, to the power of his grace, would be limitless. Whatever the multitude of our faults and our needs, we have in Christ an inexhaustible merciful substitute. In our misery, we are rich in Christ (cf. 1 co 1.5). The overabundance of the merits of a god is, for the Church which owns them, an constantly gushing source of gratitude, praise, peace and inexpressible joy.

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