My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

7% Sd th4 Things Above
IGETI.Y considered, kindness is the grand cause of
God in the world. Where it is natural, it must
forthwith be supernaturalized. Where it is not natural,
it must be supernaturally planted. What is our life?
It is a mission to go into every comer it can reach, and
reconquer for God's beatitude His unhappy world back
to Him. It is a devotion of ourselves to the bliss of the
Divine Life by the beautiful apstolate of kindness.
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ET US conclude. We have been speaking of kindness.
Perhaps we might better ha* called it the
spirit of Jesus. What an amulet we should find it in
our passage through life if we would say to ourselves
two or three times a day these soft words of Scripture:
"My spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance
above honey and the honeycomb " (WW. xxiv. a7).
16,-Seek tbe Zbfnge above
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"Seek the things that are above"
NIDEAL life would be so tolive as to be "an inspiration,
strength, and blessing to those whose lives are
touched by ours." Such was our dear Lady's life task.
To lead others onward, upward, heavenward, was her
earnest joy and endeavor. Such should be also the
noble aim of her true childten.
How can we accomplish this superhuman task? By
living for the thin~s above. If we endeavor to see God's
hand in all that havpens, and to live as "pilgrims and
strangers" that seeka &untry, then our iiy&, though
exteriorlv simBk and coinnuntbha. will h as beacon
lights gujding ku1,s to that 1,lessed region we call " TJonle,"
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