My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

ule announced by our blessed Saviour: "As you
would that men should do to you, do you also to themin
like manner" (Lrcke vi. 31). In doing good to
others we become like to Christ, of whom we read
in the Gospel that "He went about doing good to
all."
"This commandment we have from God," says the
disciple, whom Jesus loved, "that he, who loveth God,
love also his brother" (I John iv. 21). And St. Paul
observes: "He, who loveth his neighbor, hath fulfilled
the law" (Renz. xiii. 8).
What Shakespeare says of mercy, pertains also to
charity and kindness: "It droppeth as the gentle rain
from heaven; it is twice blessed; it blesseth him that
gives and him that takes." We reap what we sow.
Kindness begets kindness. Man can scarcely enjoy1
sweeter satisfaction than that which results hm
good deed generously performed or a kind word un.
selfishly spoken. "Happy is he, who has charity
for every one," says the Blessed Egidius of Assisi;
"happy is he, who perfornls great services for his
neighbor, yet does not trouble about receiving anything
in return."
Our deeds of disinterested charity are recorded in
the Book of Life. On the great day of recompense,
our blessed Saviour mill say: "Come, ye blessed of My
Father, possess the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you
ve Me to eat; I was thirsty and you gave hle to drink;
!? was a stranger and you took Me in; naked, and you
covered Me; sick, and you visited Ale; I was in prison,
and you came to Me; . . . As long as you did it to
one of these little children you did it to Me" (Matt.
34-36).
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