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    Fraternal Charity
    Fraternal Charity
    Fraternal Charity
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    Fraternal Charity

    By Benôit Valuy

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Fraternal Charity - Benôit Valuy

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fraternal Charity, by Rev. Father Valuy

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Fraternal Charity

      Author: Rev. Father Valuy

      Release Date: September 10, 2010 [EBook #33701]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRATERNAL CHARITY ***

      Produced by Michael Gray, Diocese of San Jose

      FRATERNAL CHARITY

      FRATERNAL CHARITY

      BY

      REV. FATHER VALUY, S.J.

      AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION

      NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO

      BENZIGER BROTHERS

      PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE

      1908

      F. THOMAS BERGH, O.S.B.,

      Censor Deputatus.

      GULIELMUS,

      Episcopus Arindelensis,

      Vicarius Generalis.

      WESTMONASTERII,

      Die 7 Feb., 1908.

      TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

      THE name of Father Valuy, S.J., is already favourably known to English readers by several translations of his works, which have a large circulation.

      The following little treatise is taken from one of his works on the Religious Life, and is translated with the kind permission of the publisher, M. Emmanuel Vitte, of Lyons. The subject is so important a factor in community life that I feel confident it will supply a want hitherto felt by many.

      Though specially written for religious, it cannot fail to prove beneficial to seculars in every sphere of life, as love, the sunshine of existence, is wanted everywhere.

      Contents

      FRATERNAL CHARITY

      I

      CHARITY THE PECULIAR VIRTUE OF CHRIST

      OUR Divine Saviour shows both by precept and example that His favourite virtue, His own and, in a certain sense, characteristic virtue, was charity. Whether He treated with His ignorant and rude Apostles, with the sick and poor, or with His enemies and sinners, He is always benign, condescending, merciful, affable, patient; in a word, His charity appeared in all its most amiable forms. Oh, how well these titles suit Him!—a King full of clemency, a Lamb full of mildness. How justly could He say, Learn of Me, that I am meek and humble of heart! His yoke was sweet, His burden light, His conversation without sadness or bitterness. He lightened the burdens of those heavily laden; He consoled those in sorrow; He quenched not the dying spark nor broke the bruised reed.

      He calls us His friends, His brothers, His little flock; and as the greatest sign of friendship is to die for those we love, He gave to each of us the right to say with St. Paul: He loved me, and delivered Himself up for me. Let us, then, say: My good Master, I love Thee, and deliver myself up for Thee.

      Religious, called to reproduce the three great virtues of Jesus Christ—poverty, chastity, and obedience—have still another to practise not less noble or distinctive—viz., fraternal charity. By this virtue they are not called to rise above earthly or sensual pleasures, nor above their judgment and self-will, but above egotism and self-love, which shoot their roots deepest in the soul. They must consider attentively the fundamental truths on which charity is based and its effects, as also the principal obstacles to its attainment, and the means to overcome them.

      II

      FIRST FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH

      We are all members of the great Christian family

      CHARITY towards our neighbour is charity towards God in our neighbour, because, faith assuring us that God is our Father, Jesus Christ our Head, the Holy Ghost our sanctifier, it follows that to love our neighbour—inasmuch as he is the well-beloved child of God, the member of Jesus Christ, and the sanctuary of the Holy Ghost—is to love in a special

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