‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment (Matt. 22:37-38*)’.
This commandment is as a sun which gives lustre and dignity to all the sacred laws, to all the divine ordinances, and to all the Holy Scriptures. All is done for this heavenly love, and all has reference to it. From the sacred tree of this commandment grow all the counsels, exhortations, inspirations, and the other commandments, as its flowers, and eternal life as its fruit; and all that does not tend to eternal love tends to eternal death. Grand Commandment, the perfect fulfilment of which lasts through eternal life, yea, is no other thing but eternal life!”
On The Love of God
Next Nocturnal Adoration: Friday, June 1, 2012