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SUMMARY:St. Francis de Sales
DESCRIPTION:HOW CHARITY PRODUCES LOVE OF NEIGHBOR\nBy St Francis de Sales 4\n◊◊◊ \nJust as God has created “us in his image and likeness\,” so also has he\nordained for us a love in the image and likeness of the love due to his divinity.\nHe says: “You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart\, and with your\nwhole soul\, and with your whole mind.” This the greatest and the first\ncommandment. and the second is like it\, “You shall love your neighbor as\nyourself.”… Why do we love God? “The reason for which we love God is God\nhimself.” says St. Bernard\, as if to say that we love God because he is the most\nsupreme and most infinite goodness. Why do we love ourselves in charity?\nSurely\, it is because we re God’s image and likeness. \nSince all persons have this same dignity\, we also love them as ourselves\,\nthat is\, in their character is most holy and living images of the divinity. It is in\nthis character…that we are related to God by such close alliance and such loving\ndependence that nothing prevents him from saying that he is our Father and\nfrom calling us his children. It is in this character that we are capable of being\nunited to his divine essence by enjoyment of his supreme goodness and bliss. It\nis in this character that we receive his grace and our spirits are associated with\nhis most holy Spirit\, and as it were “are made partakers of his divine nature\,” as\nSt. Leo says. \nHence\, the same charity that produces acts of love of God produces at the\nsame time those of love of neighbor. Just as Jacob saw that one and the same\nladder touched heaven and earth and equally served the angels both to descend\nand to ascend\, so also we know that one and the same dilection reaches out to\ncherish both God and neighbor. Thus it raises us up to unite our spirit with God\nand it brings us back again to loving association with our neighbors. However\,\nthis is always on condition that we love our neighbors in as much as they are\nGod’s image and likeness\, created to communicate with the divine goodness\, to\nparticipate in his grace\, and to enjoy his glory… \nTo love our neighbor in charity is to love God in the human being or the\nhuman being in God. It is to cherish God alone for love of himself and creatures\nfor love of him. When we see our neighbor created in the likeness and image\nof God\, should we not say to one another\, “Stop\, do you see this created being\,\ndo you see how it resembles the Creator?” Should we not cast ourselves upon\nhim\, caress him\, and weep over him with love? Should we not give him a\nthousand\, thousand blessings? Why so?… It is for love of God who made us in\nhis own image and likeness and therefore capable of sharing in his goodness in\ngrace and glory. \n4 On the Love of God\, Tan Books & Pub. Inc.\, 1975\, pp. 170-171.
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