""Children do no inspire terror or aversion, but attachment and love" says St. Peter Chrysologus. It seems that children know not how to be angry; and if perchance at odd times they should be irritated, they are easily soothed; one has only to give them a fruit, a flower, or bestow on them a caress, or utter a kind word to them, and they have already forgiven and forgotten every offense.
A tear of repentance, one act of heart-felt contrition, is enough to appease the Infant Jesus. "You know the tempers of children," pursues St. Thomas of Villanova; "a single tear pacifies them, the offense is forgotten. Approach, then, to Him while he is a little one, while he would seem to have forgotten his majesty, and appears as a child to inspire us with more courage to approach his feet."
- St. Alphonsus De Liguori
Lord Jesus, teach me to empty myself.
:) was thinking of you, so I stopped by your blog, still as beautiful as ever..
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Renee :)
Deletethat means a lot