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IN LOVE WITH THE DIVINE OUTCAST

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It amounts to this, we shall never be more than crippled souls in the workshop of the Master of Love. Our learning, our talent, our wit, our power to persuade, to guide, to teach, are poisoned, undernourished, unfed, because the vitality of the soul has been wounded and weakened from lack of the warmth and sunshine of Love, Let us make hast to draw close to the Fountain-head of Love, through love for His creatures, each of whom is beautiful, viewed through the lens of love. 

St. Thérèse of Lisieux read the glowing panegyric of St. Paul, and her reading became a revelation. "In the Heart of the Church―of Christ's Body―I will be love." Love would enable her to exercise all the vocations to which she daringly aspired. Through love she would be:―a priest, a confessor, a martyr for the Faith. And that penetration of St. Thérèse through the Body and right to the Heart, made her a carrier of Life to millions. But then she did not stop at the Heart, she sought light and guidance from the Head. She heard Paul's exhortation, "Let that mind that was Jesus Christ's be in you too." 

"Love one another, for Charity is God. and everyone that liveth, is born of God and knoweth God." 

(1 John, 4/7.)

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