22nd November 2024 with Cardinal Lavigerie
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Day SIX: Charity Above all
+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Text from the Cardinal: Charity is the master weapon, because it is the one that penetrates hearts and inflicts wounds of eternal life. Let this be the secret of your action (I.52-53). In our relations with the unbelievers, we must be inspired by a supernatural love for them; we must love them as Our Lord loved His Apostles. We must want to die for them, just as Jesus Christ died for his Apostles. (I.320). When I speak of charity, I do not speak only of the charity of almsgiving, I speak of the charity which knows how to suffer, to give oneself, to sacrifice oneself if necessary, and which, by this demonstration, finally forces the most hardened ones to say, “Those are really God’s disciples” (P.88). Reflection: Lavigerie was a man with a…