The Greatness of the Guardian Angels
One can grow in love of God by loving him, that is, by multiplying day and night aspirations of love for him. Every act of love is like wood placed on the fire; it ignites, inflames, increases the flame of our love.
We must often recall the state of our soul and examine to what point holy love dominates it, to see if it truly is the motive of our actions and our sentiments, and, after this examination, we must conceive a great desire to love God even more, begging him for the grace to do so and to know how to love him with all the strength of our soul.
We should imitate our good Guardian Angel: in church, his profound worship before the Tabernacle; in prayer, his recollection and his piety; in our affairs, his union with God; in our temptations, his glorious battles against the devil; in the practice of charity, his patience in bearing the mistakes and defects of his neighbor, his gentleness, his generosity, his assistance; in short, his conformity to God’s good pleasure in all things, the uprightness of his intentions and his pure and innocent life.
Blessed Clelia Merloni
Blessed Clelia Merloni († 1930) founded the Congregation of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart.
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