The New Year has come to us. / God be blessed for it.

The New Year has come to us. / God be blessed for it.

love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.

They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly toward Love; / For perfect Love is never cowardly, / But claims its rights, which it lacks.

Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.