Alphonsus and God’s Love

Alphonsus’ relationship to God was characterized by an experience of God’s passionate love for us in Jesus. If faith had not assured us of it, writes Alphonsus, who could ever have believed that a God, almighty, most happy, and the Lord of all, should have condescended to love man to such an extent that he seems to go out of himself for the love of him? Over and over, at the heart of his counsels, arguments, pleas, preaching and exhortations, we find the experience of this love.

This love sows in us the desire to be with and live for the one who loved us first. In our relationship with Jesus, his love moves us to look beyond the status quo to generate a new vision of life and to continually seek to make ever more sincere and generous our response to his love. We just will not be content with mediocrity and injustice.