‘Love is repaid by
love alone’ (St John of the Cross)
I saw that love alone imparts life to all the members, so
that should love ever fail, apostles would no longer preach the gospel and
martyrs would refuse to shed their blood. Finally, I realised that love
includes every vocation, that love is all things, that love is eternal,
reaching down through the ages and stretching back to the utmost limits of the
earth.
Beside myself with joy, I cried out, ‘Jesus, my love, my
vocation is found at last – my vocation is love!’ I have found my place in the
Church, and this place, Jesus, you have given me yourself; in the heart of the
Church I will be love. In this way I will be all things and my wish will be
fulfilled.
But why do you say ‘beside myself with joy’? It is, rather,
peace which has claimed me, the calm, quiet peace of the sailor as he catches
sight of the beacon which lights him to port. The beacon of love.
I am only a weak and helpless child, but my very weakness
makes me dare to offer myself, Jesus, as a victim to your love. In the old
days, only pure and spotless victims of holocaust would be accepted by God, and
his justice was appeased only by the most perfect sacrifices. Now the law of
fear has given way to the law of love, and I have been chosen, though weak and
imperfect, as love’s victim.
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