Caritas,
there is no word in the English language quite like it, it is like love, but
more, it is like charity, but more. It is love for all things in this world; it
burns with passion, and is fueled by the Holy Spirit. When you have Caritas it
fills you from your toenails to the ends of your hair, and it beams out of you.
When you have Caritas you have love for the
soil between your toes, for the things that creepith next to you, for the
sinner and the saint. To bring all to the love of Christ, that is a passionate
heart; to love something so much it hurts. And Christ’s own sacred heart loved
the world so much that he let it consume his mortal coil.
Heart
of Jesus, glowing furnace of charity, have mercy on us
