November 15
Let us not be found ungrateful
et us all in
time learn to love as we should, God above all things, and all other things
for him. And whatsoever love be not referred to that end, namely, to the
good pleasure of God, is a very vain and unfruitful love. And whatsoever
love we bear to any creature whereby we love God the less, that love is
a loathsome love and hinders us from heaven. Love no child of yours so
tenderly but that you could be content to sacrifice it to God, as Abraham
was ready with Isaac, if God so commanded you. And since God will not do
so, offer your child in another way to God's service. For whatever we love
that makes us break God's commandment, we love better than God, and that
is a love deadly and damnable. Now, since our Lord has so loved us, for
our salvation, let us diligently call for his grace that in return for
his great love we be not found ungrateful.
From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Tradition Day by Day: Readings from
Church Writers. Augustinian Press. Villanova, PA, 1994.
HTML text prepared by David P. Steelman
