Tuesday, March 7 : Saint Charles de Foucauld

“You have only one Father, God: you are all brothers.” You put it to us concisely, Lord Jesus: all men form one big family, all are brothers, God is our common Father; all should have for each other the thoughts, words, actions that a good father wants his children to have between them. The love that the best of fathers wishes to see reigning between his children, this is the love we owe to all people, to each person without exception. And our model, Jesus, gives us an example of it: he is God who comes on earth to show us, in human form, how he wants each person to love other people. What does Jesus do? He lives for thirty four years and he gives his blood amid the most terrible torments for the sanctification and salvation of all men, not just all in general but each in particular in such a way that there is no one of whom one might not say: this man, Jesus died died to save and sanctify him. After the precept of fraternal love, this is the example as Jesus has given it. As St. Paul said: it is your brother whom Christ has “purchased at great price!” (cf. 1 Cor 6:20). Each person is our real brother in God, and each person has been loved and valued so greatly by Jesus that he died for him. Each person should appear to us as a brother, and a brother as though covered with a cloak of the Blood of Jesus.
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