Friday, August 24th
St. Bartholomew, Apostle
Isaiah 43:8-13. Apocalypse 21:4. John 1:45-51

He who is and was and shall be in and through eternity called His Son, first offspring of His love, into the creation and the re-creation of His worlds and everything within them. And through the dynamic of Our loving Holy Spirit all is brought to union and co-inherence in the perfection of Our love which lives purposefully and constructively within the context of this glorious reality.

All created beings contribute to the Father’s loving purpose as they are faithful in Our love - in the natural world through the nature of their being and the sons of men as they commit themselves to their loving Heavenly Father in faith and trust and self-giving in love. But all the children of His love are free to give or to withhold their glorious destiny He offers them.

All faithfully committed in love and in self-giving are with Us now and shall be through eternity, the greatest to the least in the eyes of men. I am He who brings all things to fulfillment and – with Our loving Holy Spirit – completes the operation begun by Eternal Love before time was.