Last Lecture - I Believe in Love

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CONSCIOUS OF MY WEAKNESS, YET

CONFIDENT TO THE POINT OF AUDACITY IN
THE GOODNESS OF OUR FATHER
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UNSHAKABLE
CONFIDENCE
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Based on “I believe in Love” book - A

personal retreat based on the teaching of
St. Therese of Lisieux by Fr. Jean C.J.
D’Elbee
In the name…..
LAST LECTURE
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What I have learnt so far – I love you all.

I BELIEVE IN LOVE DEFINE LOVE
He did not create us out of necessity; He did

St. Thomas Aquinas defines love as “the choice to
not need us. He did not create us out of will the good of the other.”
justice; He owed us nothing. No, it is to His
sheer love that we owe our existence
What predilection! . You could say that you were

in some way a need of His Heart
“It is just this—to find myself at my death with

empty hands—that gives me joy, for, having
nothing, I shall receive everything from God.”
WE ARE CALLED TO WHAT ABOUT MY
BE HOLY ASPIRATIONS
John 10:10
HOLY – means “SET APART”
The thief comes only to steal and kill and
destroy. I came that they may have life and
have it abundantly.
A life of obedience, of poverty, of silence, in
total self-effacement.
HE KNOWS ME IN THE GOOD TIMES
AND IN THE SEASON
INSIDE OUT OF TEAR
John 10:10
God loved us first that we might love Him (1
John 4:19) The thief comes only to steal and kill and
destroy. I came that they may have life and
have it abundantly.
2 Corinthians 9:6-8
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will Without love, everything is painful, everything
also reap sparingly, and whoever sows is tiring, everything is burdensome. The
bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one Cross, taken up hesitantly, is crushing; taken
must give as he has decided in his heart, not smilingly, by free will and with love, it will
reluctantly or under compulsion, for God carry you much more than you carry it. Love
loves a cheerful giver makes time eternal by giving a divine value to
everything
ITS NOT WHAT WE
ITS NOT WHO WE
HAVE DONE, WHAT
ARE, BUT WHOSE
HE HAS ALREADY
WE ARE
DONE
ANTHROPOLGY FIRST MORALITY NEXT
WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS & HUMAN DOINGS
ANTHROPOLGY – What is our nature (being)

MORALITY- What is good and bad (our deeds)
THEN WHAT IS LOVE
ASKING OF ME
BASIC GOOD NEWS
Deny themselves…. and follow me (Matthew

16:24) He DIED, He is RISEN, He will COME AGAIN
ARE YOU HAPPY ? We have all the power of love at our disposal,
the omnipotence of Jesus, who said, “Have
confidence; I have overcome the world.” (John
16:33) But the victory depends on our faith in
Is that meaningful ? Him, on our hope, on our charity
“DO YOU THINK
THEN WHAT IS TO YOU ARE A JOY
BE A SAINT OR FOR JESUS!”
HOLY OR TO BE IN “Jesus, You are my joy, and I, too, am Your
LOVE ? joy.”
Love is not sensible piety. Never forget this

distinction. Holiness is a disposition of the “It is just this—to find myself at my death with
soul, of the heart, and, above all, of the will, empty hands—that gives me joy, for, having
toward God; the senses may play a role, but nothing, I shall receive everything from God.”
that is not necessary. Little Thérèse writes
that dryness was her daily bread, but that she People examine themselves in terms of what
was nevertheless the happiest of creatures is forbidden them and not in terms of what is
asked of them. People examine themselves
on faults and failings, and not on their
I want to see to believe, then I believe to see intimacy with Jesus. It has been rightly said
it that sins of omission—of which we so rarely
think to accuse ourselves—are more frequent
than the others: lack of faith, of hope, and of
charity, failure.
THERE SHALL BE
JOY
UNSHAKEABLE It is the Gospel where we see that what Jesus
CONFIDENCE asks of us, before and above all, is humility

and confidence, Remember that, each time
you pick yourself up after a fall, the feast of
the prodigal son is renewed.
“It is just this—to find myself at my death with

empty hands—that gives me joy, for, having
This word, confidence, summarizes the three nothing, I shall receive everything from God.”
theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity—
sovereign virtues which bring all the others in
their train. A whole life of sin, one humble and confident
look toward the Crucified, and there was the
first canonized saint, and canonized by Jesus
Doctrine of confidence, not in spite of our Himself! A thief who stole Heaven! A whole
miseries, but because of them, since it is life of sin, one humble and confident look
misery which attracts mercy - a confidence as toward the Crucified, and there was the first
great as our weakness, as great as our misery canonized saint, and canonized by Jesus
Himself! A thief who stole Heaven!
“We would like to suffer generously, grandly,
Céline, but what an illusion! We would like
IMMEDIACY OF never to fall! What does it matter, my Jesus, if
I fall every moment? It shows me my
INSTANT GRACE weakness, and it is a great gain for me. It
shows You what I am capable of, and then
You will be more tempted to carry me in Your
arms. If You do not do so, it will be because it
A beautiful prayer to pour forth from your pleases You to see me on the ground.”
heart throughout the day is “Jesus, repair
what I have done badly; supply for what I
have left undone.” - Is this not worthy of To have burning desires, to express them with
adoration? I have a Jesus who does all that in eloquence, to feel ourselves full of
me and for me! enthusiasm, does not depend directly upon
us. What we can always do, however, is to
love, with our will, our littleness and our
poverty; we can love our nakedness and our
Go to Him as to a fountain of living water, as powerlessness and come to have nothing but
many times as necessary, picking yourself up a single treasure: our blind abandonment to
each time more humble and each time more mercy. That is a program for the interior life
overflowing with confident love. which is within your reach.

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CONSCIOUS OF MY WEAKNESS, YET

Pitch deck title 1

Based on “I believe in Love” book - A

What I have learnt so far – I love you all.

He did not create us out of necessity; He did

What predilection! . You could say that you were

“It is just this—to find myself at my death with

ANTHROPOLGY FIRST MORALITY NEXT

WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS & HUMAN DOINGS

ANTHROPOLGY – What is our nature (being)

Deny themselves…. and follow me (Matthew

Love is not sensible piety. Never forget this

CONFIDENCE asks of us, before and above all, is humility

“It is just this—to find myself at my death with

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