Why are we so little concerned with seeking out
opportunities for helping one another, so that we
might strengthen one another in those things
where we see that it is more necessary and
mutually bear the burdens of our brothers and
sisters? The apostle exhorts us to do this when he says:
Help carry one another's burdens; in that way you
will fulfill the law of Christ.
And elsewhere he says:
Bear with one another lovingly. This is the very law of Christ.
Every kind of life which allows a person to give
oneself more sincerely to the love of God, and
through it to the love of neighbor — no matter
what its dress or customs may be — is thus more
pleasing to God. It is for love that we should do
or not do everything, change or not change it.
Love is the principle through which and the end
toward which it is fitting for everything to be
directed. There is no fault in anything which is
genuinely done for love and in accord with the
Spirit of love. May this love be granted us by
the Lord Whom we cannot please without love and
without Whom we can do nothing; the One Who lives and reigns as God forever.
St. Isaac Stella
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Lord, may everything we do begin with Your
inspiration and continue with Your help,
so that all our prayers and works may begin in You and by You be happily ended.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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