Prayers & Reflections for December 19

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

Chapter IV
Reflections on Prayer

In addition to the Prayer of Action there is the Prayer of Sacrifice.

The only way we can prove we love anyone is by sacrifice.

Love does not mean to have, to own, to possess. It means to be had, to be owned, to be possessed. It is the giving of oneself for another.

That is why we speak of "arrows and darts of love" - something that wounds.

And the day men forget that love is synonymous with sacrifice, they will ask what kind of a God is it who asks for mortification and self denial.

"Greater love than this no man hath, that he lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13).

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons