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The Love Of God And The Liturgy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2024

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God is Love: that is his name, that is his life, and God known must be God loved, God worshipped. ‘O taste and see how good the Lord is.’ The mind awakens to goodness and the will moves to possess it. God first loved us: that is what his goodness means. And our answer is to love him in return. For love is to be expressed. it is not a notion to be cherished, a choice in reserve; rather is it a life and all of a life, imperative and lasting.

Man is made for God: made to worship him, therefore, to give him the praise and acknowledgment his goodness demands. That is what religion is for: giving God what is his due, not adequately indeed, as though man on his own might ever match the infinite love of Love himself.

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Copyright © 1953 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers