Know God, know love; Angels: Day 293

If  you love your brother, says St. Augustine, you know God—because  God is love. Love is what binds us together with the angels. When you are filled with love, you really are filled with God, and you know God more intimately than you can know your closest friend.

No one should say, “I do not know what I love.” Love your brother, and you will love that same love. For you know the Love you love with more than you know your brother—so now you can know God more than you know your brother. Clearly you will know him more, because he will be more present. You will know him more, because he is more certain. Embrace the love of God, and by love embrace God.

Love itself is what holds all the good angels and all the servants of God together by the bond of sanctity. It joins us and them together—equally with our- selves, and subordinately to God.

The more we are healed from the swelling of pride, the more we are filled with love. And when you are filled with love, what are you filled with—except God? –St. Augustine, On the Trinity, 8.8

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .

When I think of the people I live with or work with every day, is love the thing I feel most? Or do other feelings come first? Am I bound together with the good angels, or are my gripes and grudges keeping me apart from them?

CLOSING PRAYER

Unite me to the blessed assembly  of your angels, Lord, and let me share in your love for all your people.

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