November 9

Sixteenth Saturday after Trinity

Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. Ephesians 3:20, 21.

O HOW boundless the thought of this individual love of God! He loves each with an individual love. The human heart craves for an undivided love. This is what God gives us. All the spiritual gifts which God gives us are indivisibly ours. He gives objectively the same gifts because He has nothing better which He could give us. He gives them us in common as members of the Body of Christ to bind us the more to one another; what He gives to all, He gives indivisibly to each. The indwelling of God the Holy Ghost and the participation of Christ are the unity of the whole Body of Christ, the Church. Singly you were made in Baptism a member of Christ; singly, in the Holy Eucharist, by that miracle of His love, you "eat the Flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His Blood; you dwell in Christ, and Christ in you; are one with Christ, and Christ with you." You have that whole indivisible love of Christ. God loves with the whole power of His Infinite love all who do not finally shut out His love; He loves thee with His whole Being. Now in this life is the time of growth in the capacity for receiving that boundless love of God. Not a prayer, not an act of faithfulness in your calling, not a self-denying act or kind deed done out of love for Him, not a temptation resisted, but it enlarges the soul for the endless capacity of the love of God, and of God, till

We, with all the choir above, May sing Thy power and praise Thy love.