Eci 7, 3839

Mt 7, 12

Mt 5, 44, 46

Ph 2, 2

Ep 4, 2

1 Pt 3, 8

Cl 3, 14

He 10, 24

He 13, i

proud: and be not faint- of God, Who liveth and re-
hearted in thy soul.
maineth for ever.

Be not wanting in com- Love the Brotherhood.
forting them that weep, and As every man hath re-
walk with them that mourn. ceived grace, ministering the
-Be not slow to visit the same one to another, as good
sick for by these things stewards of the manifold
thou shalt be confirmed in grace of God.

love.

1 Pt 2, 17 1 Pt 4, 10

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This is the declaration, 1 J3, 1 All things, therefore, what- which you have heard from soever you would that men the beginning, that you should should do to you, do you love one another. also to them: for this is We that are stronger ought Ro 15, 1-3, the Law and the Prophets. to bear the infirmities of the I say to you: Love your weak, and not to please ourenemies; do good to them selves.-Let every one of you that hate you, and pray for please his neighbour unto them that persecute and good to edification. For calumniate you.-For if you Christ did not please Himlove those that love you, what self.-Wherefore receive one reward shall you have? do another, as Christ also hath not even the publicans the received you unto the honour same? of God.

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Fulfil ye my joy, that you Let all your things be done 1 C 16, 14 be of one mind, having the in charity.

same charity, being of one As touching the charity of 1. T 4,9-10 accord, agreeing in senti-brotherhood we have no need

ment.

to write to you; for you your

With all humility and mild-selves have learned of God to ness, with patience, support- love one another. For ining one another in charity. deed you do it towards all the

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Be ye all of one mind, brethren in all Macedonia. having compassion one of But we entreat you, brethren, another, being lovers of the that you abound more. Brotherhood. This is My Commandment, Jn 15, 12, Above all these things have that you love one another, as charity, which is the bond of I have loved you.-These perfection. things I command you, that Let us consider one an- you love one another. other to provoke unto charity and to good works.

Let the charity of the Brotherhood abide in you.

A new Commandment I Jn 13, 34

give unto you: That you
love one another; as I have
loved you, that you also love

i Pt 1,22- Purifying your souls in the one another.

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compassion on the poor.

obedience of charity, with a I wept for him that was Jb 30, 2
brotherly love, from a sincere afflicted, and my soul had
heart love one another ear-
nestly:-Being born again,
not of corruptible seed, but
incorruptible, by the Word

We rejoice that we are 1C 13,
weak and you are strong.
Charity covereth all sins.

Pv 10, 12

Ro 13, 5

8. WHY AND HOW OUR NEIGHBOUR SHOULD BE

LOVED.

We being many are one made to drink.

body in Christ, and every one There is neither Jew nor Ga 3, 28
members one of another. Greek: there is neither bond

1 C 10, 17 We being many are one nor free: there is neither
bread, one body, all that par-
take of one Bread.

1 C 12, 13

1 J 4, 20

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1J3, 14, 15

1J3, 10

1 J2, 11

Ac 21, 13

In 21, 15

male nor female; for you are
all one in Christ Jesus.

In one Spirit were we all One body and one Spirit, Ep 4, 4 baptised into one body, as you are called in one hope

whether Jews or Gentiles, of your calling.

whether bond or free; and in Owe no man anything, but Ko 13, 8 one Spirit we have all been to love one another.

9.-LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBOUR IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT
THE LOVE OF GOD.

If any man say, I love God, in darkness, and knoweth
and hateth his brother, he is not whither he goeth, because
a liar.
For he that loveth the darkness hath blinded
not his brother, whom he his eyes.
seeth, how can he love God, Friend, how camest thou Mt 22, 12.
Whom he seeth not?-And in hither, not having on a
this Commandment we have wedding garment? But he
from God: That he who was silent.-Then the King
loveth God love also his said to the waiters: Bind
brother.
his hands and feet, and cast

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He that loveth not abideth him into the exterior darkin death.-Whosoever hatethness; there shall be weeping his brother is a murderer. and gnashing of teeth. Whosoever is not just is At last come also the other Mt 25, 11. not of God, nor he that virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, loveth not his brother. open to us.-But He answerHe that hateth his brother ing, said: Amen I say to is in darkness, and walketh you, I know you not.

10.-EXAMPLES OF CHARITY TOWARDS GOD AND

CHRIST OUR LORD.

Paul answered and said: He saith to Him: Yea, Lord, What do you mean weeping Thou knowest that I love and afflicting my heart? For Thee. He saith to him:

I am ready not only to be Feed My lambs.

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bound, but to die also in Who shall separate us from Ro 8, 35-
Jerusalem, for the Name of the love of Christ? Shall
the Lord Jesus.
tribulation? or distress or
Simon, son of John, lovest famine? or nakedness? or
thou Me more than these? danger? or persecution? or

1 02, 2

Ph 3, 7-8

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Nu 11, 29

Examples of the Love of

(1) Jesus, His everlast- Jn 14, 31 ing love for His

Eternal Father.

the sword?-As it is written: [but as dung, that I may gain
For Thy sake we are put to Christ.
death all the day long. We
are accounted as sheep for God:
the slaughter.-But in all
these things we overcome,
because of Him that hath
loved us. For I am sure that
neither death, nor life, nor
Angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor might,|
-Nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature shall
be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.

I judged not myself to know anything among you but Jesus Christ, and Him Crucified.

The things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ.Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss, for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord; for Whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them

Jn 21, 15

(2) The Blessed Virgin- Lu 1, 38
Mother of God.
(3) St. Peter.
(4) St. Paul.
(5) St. Thomas
Didymus.

2 C 5, 14

called Jn 11, 16

(6) St. Nicodemus.
(7) St. Mary Magdalene.
(8) St. Jeremias, the
Prophet.

Jn 19, 39

Lu 7, 47 Je 15, 16

Ps 25, 8

of Jn 16, 27

(9) St. David, the Royal
Prophet.

(11) The Daughters of Lu 23, 27
Jerusalem.

(12) King Solomon.
(13) The Man who be-
sought Him that he
might be with Him.
(14) The Catholic Church,
the Spouse of Christ.
(15) The Faithful Soul.

11.-EXAMPLES OF CHARITY TOWARDS OUR

NEIGHBOUR.

and

3 K 3, 3 Mk 5, 18

Ca 3, 1

Ca 5, 8

Ex 32, 31- Either forgive them this hand, I beseech Thee, be trespass,-Or if Thou do not, turned against me, strike me out of the Book against my father's house. Thou hast written. The dignity and greatness Es 10,3 Why [asked Moses] hast wherewith Assuerus exalted thou emulation for me? O Mardochai are written in the that all the people might pro- books of the Medes and Perphesy, and that the Lord sians:-And how Mardochai would give them His Spirit! was acceptable to the people 2 K 24, 17 David said to the Lord, of his brethren, seeking the when he saw the Angel good of his people, and speakstriking the people: It is I, ing those things which were I am he that have sinned; I for the welfare of his seed. have done wickedly. These Thou knowest all things, Es 23, 12that are the sheep, what and thou knowest that it was have they done? Let Thy not out of pride and con

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Es 4, 16

1 Ma 13, 3-6

9,3

Ac 20, 20

As the Father hath loved Jn 15, 9

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tempt, or any desire of glory,| With desire I have desired Lu 22, 15
that I refused to worship the to eat this Pasch with you
proud Aman;-For I would before I suffer.
willingly and readily, for the
salvation of Israel, have Me, I also have loved you.
kissed even the steps of his I long to see you, that I Ro 1, 11-
feet.
may impart unto you some
Go, and gather together spiritual grace, to strengthen
all the Jews whom thou you:-That is to say, that I
shalt find in Susan, and pray may be comforted together
for me. Neither eat nor in you by that which is com-
drink for three days and mon to us both, your faith
three nights, and I with my and mine.

handmaids will fast in like And I would not have you Ro 1, 13
manner; and then I will go ignorant, brethren, that I have
in to the king, against the often purposed to come unto
law, not being called, and you, and have been hindered
expose myself to death and hitherto, that I might have
to danger.
some fruit among you also,
You know what great even as among other Gen-
battles I and my brethren, tiles.

and the house of my father, To the Greeks and to the Ro 1,14-15
have fought for the Laws Barbarians, to the wise and
and the Sanctuary, and the to the unwise, I am a debtor.
distress that we have seen:-So (as much as is in me) I
-By reason whereof all my am ready to preach the Gos-
brethren have lost their lives pel to you also that are at
for Israel's sake, and I am Rome.

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left alone. And now far be Whereas I was free as to 1 C9, 19-
it from me to spare my life all, I made myself the ser-
in any time of trouble: for I vant of all, that I might gain
am not better than my bre- the more. And I became to
thren: I will avenge then the Jews a Jew, that I might
my Nation and the Sanc-gain the Jews. - To them
tuary, and our children and that are under the law, as if
wives; for all the heathens I were under the law (where-
are gathered together to as myself was not under the
destroy us out of mere law), that I might gain them
malice.

that were under the law. To
I wished myself to be an them that were without the
anathema from Christ, for law, as if I were without the
my brethren, who are my law (whereas I was not with-
kinsmen according to the out the law of Christ), that I
flesh.
might gain them that were
You know I have kept without the law. - To the
back nothing that was profit-weak I became weak, that I
able to you, but have preached might gain the weak. I be-
it to you, and taught you came all things to all men,
publicly and from house to that might save all.-And
house.
I do all things for the Gos-

Jn 21, 17

Ps 17, 1

P's 72, 25

(8) St.

Paul and St.

Timothy.

12.-EJACULATORY PRAYERS TO EXCITE IN OUR

HEARTS THE LOVE OF GOD AND OF OUR
NEIGHBOUR.

Lord, Thou knowest all my soul panteth after Thee,
things: Thou knowest that IO my God.
love Thee.

Is 41, 8

W8, 18

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Thou hast delivered my Is 38, 17I will love Thee, O Lord, soul that it should not perish, my Strength. The Lord is Thou hast cast all my sins my Firmament, my Refuge, behind Thy back.-For hell and my Deliverer. shall not confess to Thee, What have I in Heaven? neither shall death praise and besides Thee what do I Thee: nor shall they that go desire upon earth? down into the pit look for Ps 114,7-9 Turn, O my soul, into Thy Thy Truth. The living, the Rest for the Lord hath living, he shall give praise to been bountiful to thee.-For Thee, as I do this day. He hath delivered my soul Hear my prayer, O Lord, Ps 38, 13from death; my eyes from and my supplication: give tears; my feet from falling. ear to my tears.-Be not -I will please the Lord in silent: for I am a stranger the Land of the living.

Ps 17, 1

Ps 41, 1

with Thee, and a sojourner, as

I will love Thee, O Lord, all my fathers were.-O for
my Strength.
give me, that I may be re-
As the hart panteth after freshed before I go hence,
the fountains of water, so and be no more.

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