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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Alphonsus Ligouri
DESCRIPTION:THE FULLNESS OF HIMSELF \nFrom a sermon by St Alphonsus Ligouri \n◊◊◊ \nAll holiness and perfection of soul lies in our love for Jesus Christ our \nGod\, who is our Redeemer and our supreme good. It is part of the love of God to \nacquire and to nurture all the virtues that make one perfect. \nHas not God in fact won for himself a claim on all our love? From all \neternity he has loved us. And it is in this vein that he speaks to us: “O consider \ncarefully that I first loved you. You had not yet appeared in the light of day\, nor \ndid the world yet exist\, but already I loved you. From all eternity I have loved \nyou.” \nSince God knew that we are enticed by favors\, he wished to bind us to his \nlove by means of his gifts: “I want to catch mortals with these snares\, these \nchains of love in which they allow themselves to be entrapped\, so that they will \nlove me.” And all the gifts which he bestowed on us were given to this end. He \ngave us a soul\, made in his likeness\, and endowed with memory\, intellect and \nwill; he gave us a body equipped with the senses; it was for us that he created \nheaven and earth and such an abundance of things. He made all things out of \nlove for us\, so that all creation might serve us\, and we in turn might love God out \nof gratitude for so many gifts. \nBut God did not wish to give us only beautiful creatures; the truth is that \nto win for himself our love\, he went so far as to bestow upon us the fullness of \nhimself. The eternal Father went so far as to give us his only Son. When he saw \nthat we were all dead through sin and deprived of his grace\, what did he do? \nCompelled\, as the Apostle says\, by the superabundance of his love for us\, he sent \nhis beloved Son to make reparation for us and to call us back to a sinless life. \nBy giving us his Son\, whom he did not spare precisely so that he might \nspare us\, he bestowed on us every good: grace\, love and heaven; for all these \ngoods are certainly inferior to the Son: He who did not spare his own Son\, but \nhanded him over for all of us; how could he fail to give us along with his Son all \ngood things?
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