Love As I Have Loved

Jesus revealed this Will when at the Last Supper He gave His New Commandment in telling His Apostles to love one another as He had loved them. I set myself to find out how He had loved His Apostles; and I saw that it was not for their natural qualities, for they were ignorant men, full of earthly ideas. And yet He calls them His Friends, His Brethren; He desires to see them near Him in the Kingdom of His Father.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbours' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

O my Jesus! Thou dost never ask what is impossible; Thou knowest better than I, how frail and imperfect I am. Yes, I know when I show charity to others, it is simply Jesus acting in me, and the more closely I am united to Him, the more I love my Sisters.