CHARITY

God is joined to Charity, and Charity is truly, and more intimately and really The spirit of His Spirit even more than is a married couple who love each other deeply. God Himself is Charity. Charity is but the most manifest and illustrative aspect of God. Of all His attributes Charity is the sovereign and original one, because all the other attributes of God originate from Charity.
What is Power but active Charity? What is Wisdom but teaching Charity? What is Mercy but forgiving Charity? What is Justice but ruling Charity?

Now can you believe that he, who has no Charity, has God? No, he has not. Can you imagine that he may accept God, but not Charity?
There is one Charity only and it embraces Creator and creatures and it is not possible to have only one half of it: that for the Creator, without having also the other half: that for our neighbour.

God is in His creatures. He is in them with His indelible sign, with His rights of Father, Spouse and King. The soul is His throne, the body His temple. Now he who does not love one of his brothers and despises him, holds in contempt, grieves and underestimates the Landlord of his brothers house, the King, the Father, the Spouse of his brother, and it is natural that this great Being who is "Everything" and who is present in a brother, in all brothers, should consider as given to Him the offence given to a lesser being, to a part created by "Everything" that is to a single man.
That is why I taught you the Corporal and Spiritual works of mercy, that is why I taught you not to scandalise your brothers, that is why I taught you not to judge, not to have contempt or to reject your brothers, whether they are good or not good, faithful or Gentiles, friends or enemies, rich or poor.

(taken from Poem of the Man-God)










 
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