Every now and then you read something that is simply beautiful and you wish you could write something half so memorable. Today is the day to honor the memory of St. Thomas of Villanova who was the Archbishop of Valencia in the 1500's and a noted educator of his time. Although he was remarkable in many ways, it is his writing that stays with me. This is how he described the love of God.
"Wonderful beneficence! God promises us Heaven for the recompense of His love. Is not His love itself the greatest reward, the most desirable, the most lovely, and the most sweet blessing? Yet a further recompense, and so immense a recompense, waits on it. Wonderful goodness! Thou givest thy love, and for this thy love thou bestowest on us Paradise."
No wonder he has been called one of the glories of the Church in Spain.
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