Commentary on the Gospel: “You give them something to eat”
Gospel for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Cycle C), and commentary.
“Love everyone: understanding, excusing, forgiving all”
Loving souls for God's sake will make us love everyone: understanding, excusing, forgiving all. We should have a love that can cover the multitude of failings contrived by human wretchedness. We have to have a wonderful charity, veritatem facientes in caritate, defending the truth, without hurting anyone. (The Forge, 559)
Each day, you will find, as I do, if you examine yourselves courageously in the presence of God, that you have many defects. If we struggle, with God’s help, to get rid of them we needn’t give them too much importance, and we will overcome them even though it may seem that we never manage to uproot them ...
