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2012.09.15 02:32

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LOVE IS ... / St. Richard Rolle(1300? -1349)



    "Love is an ardent yearning for God,
    with a wonderful delight and security.
    God is light and burning.
    Light illuminates our reason.
    Burning ignites our yearning so that
    we can desire nothing except HIM.
    Love is one life, coupling together
    the one loving and the one beloved.
    Meekness makes us sweet to God,
    purity joins us to God, and
    love makes us one with God.

    We must strive to clothe ourselves in love,
    as iron or as charcoal do in fire,
    as the air does in the sun, and
    as the wool does in the dye.
    The charcoal is so imbued with fire that
    the whole is fire.
    The air so clothes itself in the sun that
    the whole is light.
    The wool so essentially adopts the dye that it totally matches it.
    In this fashion a real lover of Christ is to act:
    his or her heart is to burn in love to such an extent that
    it will be turned into a fire of love, and
    be, so to speak, entirely fire.
    And he or she will shine in virtues that
    no part of Christ's lover will be darkened
    by degenerate behavior."


    .... This is from the book, "Voices of the Saints" by Bert Ghezzi, 2000.
         Loyola Press, Jesuit Ministry

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