Humble love is perhaps the greatest of all evangelical virtues, much more rare than the frequent use of the word ‘love’ in contemporary literature would lead us to suspect. Love in the image of God—generous, patient, gentle love toward everyone, toward those nearest and those most distant, toward friend and enemy, toward just anyone who shows up. A Cistercian Abbott who lived in the 12th century, Guerric of Igny, said it in his way: ‘It is the property of friendship to make itself small before it's friends’. Such people are a great blessing to the Church and to the world. As a rule they are easy to recognize. For real love attracts and wins others—without knowing it.
ANDRÉ LOUF Tuning Into Grace
