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Sep 8 12 10:27 AM
"Yet, while everyone in every culture of history commonly symbolizes selfless love for others as coming from the heart, everyone also realizes that truly selfless love is among the rarest commodities of human experience. Indeed, as our faith teaches us, it is not only a difficult virtue to practice but in its highest reaches is impossible for human nature unless inspired and sustained by extraordinary divine grace. It is precisely here that the Holy Eucharist supplies for what we could never do by ourselves: love others with total self-sacrifice. We must be animated by the light and strength that comes from the heart of Jesus Christ. If, as He said, "without me you can do nothing," it is certainly impossible to give ourselves to others, tirelessly and patiently and continually, in a word, heartily, unless His grace gives us the power to do so. And where does His grace come from'? From the depths of His divine heart, present in the Eucharist, offered daily for us on the altar and available to us always in the sacrament of Communion. Taken from "Salvation and Sanctification" by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J
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