Psalm 48
9 We have thought on your steadfast love, O God,
in the midst of your temple.
10 As your name, O God,
so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
11 Let Mount Zion be glad!
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
because of your judgments!
During the season of Lent, it is easy to focus on penitence and mourning -- so much so that we forget to praise God and remember His steadfast love. Penitence, or the act of repenting, is a movement of the soul back towards God, from whom we have turned away. God is worthy of our praise, because God is love.
Dante meditated on the doctrine that God is love while writing the Paradiso. God is the cause of love, and creation is an act of love. God generates love in Himself, and causes this love in us. God's love circulates through the universe like blood through the body.
Our acts of penitence are acts of love that circulate back to the Creator. The love that we demonstrate to ourselves and to each other participates in God's love.
May we remember the depths of God's love in our penance --and in our praise -- this season of Lent.
in the midst of your temple.
10 As your name, O God,
so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
11 Let Mount Zion be glad!
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
because of your judgments!
During the season of Lent, it is easy to focus on penitence and mourning -- so much so that we forget to praise God and remember His steadfast love. Penitence, or the act of repenting, is a movement of the soul back towards God, from whom we have turned away. God is worthy of our praise, because God is love.
Dante meditated on the doctrine that God is love while writing the Paradiso. God is the cause of love, and creation is an act of love. God generates love in Himself, and causes this love in us. God's love circulates through the universe like blood through the body.
Our acts of penitence are acts of love that circulate back to the Creator. The love that we demonstrate to ourselves and to each other participates in God's love.
May we remember the depths of God's love in our penance --and in our praise -- this season of Lent.
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