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Following Jesus with Brother CharlesIt is impossible for me to understandIt is impossible for me to understand how anyone can love Jesus, and not desire to pattern their whole life on his. Let us be afraid of one thing onlyLet us be afraid of one thing only, not to love Jesus enough. To become a martyrTo become a martyr means to become like Jesus, it means to become his brother, his little brother, to the very end, following him hand in hand, even to Calvary, and giving him the greatest proof of love: 'A person can have no greater love than to lay down their life for their friends'. read more » To be rich and live in comfortTo be rich and live in comfort among my possessions when you were poor, deprived, living in misery and burdened by heavy labour - I could not do it, O God, I could not love like that. read more » How quickly someone will become poorMy Lord Jesus, how quickly someone will become poor who, loving you with all their heart, cannot accept to be richer than their Beloved. How quickly they will become poor who accepts with faith your words: If you wish to be perfect, go and sell all you own and give the money to the poor. Blessed are the poor. read more » They will take for their ruleThey will take for their rule to ask themselves in everything, what JESUS would think or say or do at their place, and then do it. The means Jesus usedThe means Jesus used at his birth in the Manger, at Nazareth and on the Cross are these: poverty, utter lowliness, humiliation, rejection, persecution, suffering, the cross. These are our arms, the ones used by our divine Bridegroom, who asks us to let him continue his life in us. Let us follow him as our sole model and we are sure to do much good, for in that case it will not be we who live but he who lives in us. Our acts will no longer be our own, human and frail, but his divinely efficacious acts. read more » Proclaim the Gospel from the housetopsEverything about us, all that we are, should ‘proclaim the Gospel from the housetops’. All that we do and our whole lives should be an example of what the Gospel way of life means in practice, and should make it unmistakably clear that we belong to Jesus. Our entire being should be a living witness, a reflection of Jesus. read more » Read and re-read ceaselessly the Holy GospelRead and re-read ceaselessly the Holy Gospel...
so as to always have before one's mind the actions, words and thoughts of Jesus,
in order to think, speak and act like Jesus,
to follow the examples and teachings of Jesus, not the examples and ways of behaving of the world.
We fall into this latter so quickly, as soon as we take our eyes off the Divine Model. read more » |
Thoughts of Brother CharlesInspired by Brother Charles... |