Photo Prayer:
Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.
The love of God, or absorption into His supreme life, is the last link of the great chain of being which was started at first by God, and which, after long evolution, returns to Him again. The Creation, the arrangement and development of the universe, life, instinct, and reason, the fall and restitution, the Incarnation, the discrimination of men by trial, the law, the Church, the Sacraments, the Resurrection end in this one thing, the return of all being in man to God. The propension of man towards the Supreme Life and his fruition of it are equally the operation of the same vital energy; in other words, Charity abides, it is the same thing in this world and in the next; it is the attainment of God, it is the exercise of our vital energy in the supernatural sphere, it is the accomplishment of the law of our being. Thus Charity, or the love of God, is of its own nature the first and the greatest of all laws; it will be the spontaneous action of life, the first and necessary form of that action, when, through our free choice here, we shall have arrived at the clear vision and full understanding of the Supreme Life in heaven. Regard the love of God as the great purpose of your existence. Let it be your habitual state. Let it be the guiding principle of all your actions, and the measure of all things. So let it be to you the fulfilment of the law.
