AS I UNITE TO HIM I LOVE OTHERS MORE

I saw before me all my sins. I see how I make myself right and others wrong. I see my pride. I see Jesus, I see His gentleness and love, never condemning, always loving. He calls me to have mercy on all others. He calls me to love.

I know how I have offended Our Lord with all my ill thoughts toward my brothers. I do not have to justify my actions to anyone. I must love. Love is self-giving!

I see the bread, and it is changed into His Body. He can change me from my faults to being more and more like Him. He can change bread to His Body and wine to His Blood. He can change me from my faults to being more like Him. I can only change through His grace. I am weak and sinful.

I want to be like Him. It hurts me to know how He suffered especially in the garden and know how I have offended Him with my sins. He gives me such graces, and I am so ungrateful!

I unite in such union with Him in my sacrifice to the Father. I give myself and want to be made holy in this sacrifice. I unite in deepest union with the Almighty God, and I am touched by His love.

I want this transforming union with Him. I cannot think ill thoughts towards anyone. I must pray to the Holy Spirit for the truth. I must pray to the Holy Spirit to love God and neighbor. I must pray for greater grace to know, love, and serve Him. His way is always love. I must strive to always respond in love. Fr. Carter said the more I unite to Him the greater my gifts of charity towards others. The further I am from Him, the less my gifts of charity towards others.

Jesus said to him, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too." (Mt. 22:37-40)

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