If i asked you who wrote these lines:" we are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more," you would probably guess its William Shakespear in Romeo and Juliet.
Right? No. Wrong. The words were uttered by Saint Joseph Cafasso, who lived his life with a disabling spine injury. He spent all his dats in Italy, in Turin, where he preached to convicted prisoners, to reform them, bringing the message of christ.
Of course i have not met any saint in my eartly life. nor do i know anything about sainthood; but i have read the writings of saints, and they all seem to agree on the majesty of divine love.
"God is love," they all love. "God's love is absolute," they say further more. And in the BIBLE we read about a rabbi asking Jesus. "teacher, which commandment in the law is the most important?"
" Love the Lord your God," Jesus answered, "with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind." that is divine live. God makes us and we love him. And there's the second commandment: "Love your neighbour as you love yourself." "LOve is like a garment," Saint Catherine of Siena wrote, comparing it to a cloth wrapped round us like a new dress. Divine love is just simply beautiful.
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