Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

Tag: love of neighbor

Unique Love

My Heart has a particular love for you, a love that My Father destined for you alone and for no other from all eternity. How it grieves My Heart when the unique love I offer a soul is spurned, or ignored, or regarded with indifference! I tell you this so that you may make reparation… Read More ›

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The hardest task of all

I often wonder why I am at times even though I know it is wrong; yet I persist like someone picking a wound, over and over again in being unfair in my attitude towards others. Self righteousness really at its root, when they commit the same faults or sins that I do, more willing to… Read More ›

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The work of purification: Loving others

Very few men are sanctified in isolation. Very few become perfect in absolute solitude. Living with other people and learning to lose ourselves in the understanding of their weakness and deficiencies can help us to become true contemplatives. For there is no better means of getting rid of the rigidity and harshness and coarseness of… Read More ›

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