Interprovincial Novitiate

ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR

SAN DAMIANO FRIARY

Friars

 

REFLECTION

I feel sure that when we meet God face-to-face

the conversation is not going to begin

 with a list of our failures in loving.

God knows are frailty

and expects that even those who attempt to

love with God’s heart—

those who try to love unselfishly and particularly—

will fall short.

Our failures will not interest God;

Our generosity will.

Jesus, who redeems us one by one,

will stand at the gates of paradise,

look gently into our eyes, and ask:

 

 “Whom did you bring with you?

Who has tasted heaven—

 

 Because you loved?”

 

 -Julie Collins