The Sacred Fire of his Love
May 30, 2023
Hi! How is each and every one? The Spirit of Love
has just descended on us on Pentecost Sunday and the day after we celebrated
the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church.
We are back to praying the Angelus instead of Regina Coeli, since Easter season is over and we are now going to continue 8th week in Ordinary Time. Tomorrow, last day of May, we celebrate the Visitation of our Lady to her cousin Elizabeth and let us sing her Magnificat with her.
“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord;
my spirit rejoices in God my savior.
For he has looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness;
behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed.
The Mighty One has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
His mercy is from age to age
to those who fear him.
He has shown might with his arm,
dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart.
He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones
but lifted up the lowly.
The hungry he has filled with good things;
the rich he has sent away empty.
He has helped Israel his servant,
remembering his mercy,
according to his promise to our fathers,
to Abraham and to his descendants forever.”
Luke 1:47-55
Like our Lady I am sure
you and I have experienced and continues to experience God’s goodness and love
every day in our ordinary life. May you
and I learn from her the natural way in proclaiming God’s
greatness to every person around us just by being the way we are, refined in
our relations with others.
Following is another
excerpt on the Sacred Fire of God’s Love and the fitting response of contrition
from each one of us (From Joseph Tissot, How to profit from your faults pp. 106-107).
The same thoughts apply, more forcefully, to
contrition. It is here that the author
of Theotimus reveals the role of divine charity “with its loving anguish and
its anguished love.”
As far as I know, nature does not convert fire into
water. Water, however, has been
converted to fire. God once worked this
miracle. It is written in the Book of Maccabees
(2 Mac 1:19) that when the children of Israel were led to Babylon, at the time
of Sedecras, the priests, on the advice of Jeremiah, hid the sacred fire in the
hollow of a dry well. On their return,
the children of those who had hidden the fire went in search of it as
instructed by their fathers. They found
it had changed into very viscous liquid.
On the orders of Nehemiah, they took it and sprinkled it on the
sacrifices. As soon as the rays of the
sun shone, it was transformed again into a huge fire.
Aleteia
“Theotimus, in the midst of trials and the lament of
true repentance, God very often places the sacred fire of his love in our heart
itself. This is transformed into the
water of copious tears. Through a second
transformation it becomes a huge fire of love again. Similarly, the famous repentant lover first
of all loves the Savior, then transforms this love into tears, and these tears
then turn to form a most excellent eau-de-vie. This is why our Lord says that many sins were
forgiven because she had loved much.
We see that fire changes wine into a liquid called
the water of life in some places. This
sets alight and so easily feeds a fire that it is called ardent—burning. In the same way, when Goodness, the object of
our loving consideration and lovable in itself, is offended by sin, the liquid
of holy repentance is produced. And this
in turn, becomes the fire of divine love, which can indeed be called eau-de-vie (water of life) and ardent” (Treatise
on the Love of God, 2, 20. Here the
author plays on the French word ardent, which means the water of life (eau-de-vie) and “burning water.”).
Why don’t you and I go to
Our Mother Mary and ask her to teach us how to approach Jesus in the Eucharist
with deep faith, strong hope and ardent love.
See you in the next post,
“May
tomorrow be a perfect day; may you find love and laughter along the way; may
God keep you in his tender care; ‘til He brings us together again.”
Affectionately,
Guadalupinky
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