Jesus Caritas

Our love can be measured by how closely we imitate the one we love.

Only one thing is necessary, to love Jesus, to follow in his footsteps, hand in hand with him, to live his life, to think his thoughts, to speak his words, to continue his action.

When he came on earth, God so completely took the lowest place, that no one has ever been able to take it from Him.

The Incarnation has its source in the goodness of God, but the most wonderful of all, is the infinite humility that this mystery contains.

My God, how good you are! You are always the one who does not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smouldering wick.

In every situation, ask yourself: what would our Lord have done? Then do that. That is your only rule but it is absolutely binding on you.

We should try to be so closely united to our Lord that we reproduce his life in our own, that our thoughts and words and actions should proclaim his teaching, so that he reigns in us, lives in us.

We are to love God, then, because he loved us first. [1 Jn 4:19] The Passion on Calvary is a supreme declaration of love. It was to redeem us that you suffered so much, O Jesus. The least of your acts has infinite worth, since it is one of God's acts, and would have been more than ample enough to redeem a thousand worlds, to redeem all possible worlds. But you suffered so much because you wanted to make us holy, to bear our burdens and to draw us into loving you freely. Loving is the most powerful way to attract love, loving is the most powerful way to make oneself loved.

When you love, you forget yourself, and think only of the one you love.

Let us follow Jesus as our One and Only Model.