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Jesus, my Love!

"His conversation is sweetness itself, he is altogether lovable. Such is my love, such is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem." (Songs 5.16)

Dear friends, today I would like to share with you a little on the Beauty of Jesus Christ. Just think of some beautiful moments: for some of us, it could have been the moment when we "fell" in love with our future spouse (other loves could have, God forbid, left us bitter), the moment when a loved one held our hands, when we felt the deep comfort of companionship or friendship in moments of distress; for some others those moments when we had a quiet walk surrounded by nature at its best; a holiday in a forest, island or lagoon and so forth. Now just imagine if all this beauty that we may have experienced at different points in our lives, (and for which some of us may still be nostalgic!!!), would now concentrate and become a Person!!!! Yes, that is Jesus. He is the One in whom all the moments of beauty and the visuals of beauty concentrate, He is Beauty incarnate. Nor is His Beauty external alone, as is the case with a few, His beauty is internal too. No one who ever starts to love Jesus will grow tired or disappointed in their relationship with Him. Every day new discoveries and breathless amazements of a Beauty both interior and exterior await them. Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, let us also pray to the One whom most of us receive frequently in COMMUNION, "Jesus, True and Everlasting Beauty, open my spiritual eyes to see you so that seeing you I may stay with you, and staying with you, I may know You more, and knowing You, I may love You, and loving You I may be become One with You." Amen.

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