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Charity Brings Joy and Peace
It is the source and goal of the Christian Life. Charity upholds and purifies our human ability to love, and raises it to the supernatural perfection of divine love. The practice of the moral life animated by charity gives to the Christian the spiritual freedom of the children of God. The believer no longer stands before God as a slave, in sterile fear, or as a mercenary, looking for wages, but as a son, responding to the love of Him who “first loved us.” (Jn.4:19) The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy.
“The companion of faith is hope; it is necessary because we do not see what we believe; with hope we are not overcome by faint-heartedness in the waiting; then charity comes and places in our souls the hunger and thirst for God and makes our aspirations soar up to Him.” St. Augustine
An Act of Love
O my God, I love you above all things with my whole heart and soul, because You are all good and worthy of all love. I love my neighbor as myself for the love of You. I forgive all who have injured me and beg pardon of all whom I have injured.