| V. Choir | 19 July |
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| Angel of God’s generosity | Vincent de Paul |
Whoever believes that God’s love is only a whisper, like a breeze over the cornfields, has never felt the power of God’s love. Certainly, if people’s love for one another is shaking and changing, what about the love of such a marvellous, inexhaustible God!
The love of God can be felt everywhere where it has not been driven out, betrayed and defiled by man himself, by sin or by the influence of the infernal enemy.
The love of God is so great, so divinely great, that it cannot be surpassed or outdone by anything. Where the love of the creature certainly stumbles, paralysed and defeated by its opponents, the magnanimous love of God still stands above everything… above every human soul. It searches with divine precision for the slightest and smallest clues in the life of man in order to be able to base its magnanimity on a reward from God and not just on pure mercy. This power of love that literally seeks to be rewarded, the power of God’s generosity, is borne by this marvellous angel, who looks like a bearer of eternal life,
Saint Lasdael,
the angel of God’s generosity, of God’s reward. He is from the choir of the Lower Powers and, wrapped in the royal mantle of Mary, and flooded with the light and splendour of the Holy Ghost, he stands today as an intercessor before God’s Throne. Apparently, as in the folly of the Cross, he carries a denarius.
Does this one denarius really contain all of God’s generosity? This one denarius is the symbol for the highest reward of God, for Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
Is there anything greater than God giving Himself to us as a reward, than the Creator of heaven and earth offering us His only Son as a reward? Nothing can surpass such magnanimity of God. What have we done that God should base such generosity on a reward?
We can never earn God, never. But our Lord Jesus Christ descended to earth and offered Himself to the Father in a unique act of divine love, which in its greatness exceeds the entire love of all creation by an infinite amount, in our name and for us. In this sacrifice all our great and small sacrifices, our brave and tiny deeds, united with the will and love of God, are incorporated into the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. They become small waves on the infinite sea of our Saviour’s love… and so they are also divinely rewarded by the generosity of God.
Prayer: O holy Angel of Generosity, Saint Lasdael, see us kneeling in the dust of the earth, unworthy to touch even the hem of your garment. Give us the strength to endure the magnanimity of God by leaving all and everything and only living for Him, dying for Him and praising Him eternally. Amen.