June 5, 1978

TO LOVE IS A LAW, FOR HE WHO LOVES NOT DWELLS IN DEATH

Write, my brother: I am Armando Benatti.

It was told you that in the Association of Hope, to love is a law, for he who loves not, dwells in death; but this law is a law for all Christians; it is the eternal law of love, that is to say, of God, who is love; it is the law of the God-Man, who said: “A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another, AS I HAVE LOVED YOU.” This is the law that makes men brothers, that makes them children of their only Father, who is Love; it is the law that unites men; for this reason hatred should be eliminated from the earth, hatred that divides, hatred that darkens, hatred that kills, hatred that generates so many evils, that causes so much blood to be shed; hatred that leads to disgust, that exasperates the spirits and makes them unhappy.

Brother Octavio, God has made a law out of love, because:

- As I told you, since he himself is Love, he could not work in any other manner; he cannot cease being what he is.

- He cannot be in contradiction with himself, and love, as St. Therese of the Child Jesus told you correctly, demands love, and it could not be otherwise.

- The enemy of God and of humanity by antonomasia, mortally wounded humanity by his hatred, and he contaminated it with the germ of hatred, of jealousy, of envy, and, having placed in humanity itself the primary cause of division, that has led, and leads men to set themselves against each other, he reaped the second fruit of the wickedness of the evil one: the fratricide of Cain, and since then until our days, unending wars, revolutions whose victims are uncountable. How could they explain so much violence of all kinds and types, in any other way? Perchance is it necessary to ask presumptuous theologians, when they themselves are the cause of so many divisions? Or to ask many pastors how they explain the evil in human nature, and how this evil could be eliminated at least in part?

Behold why God has made a law out of Love: because Love is union, and union is a source of peace, of joy, and of serenity; the only-begotten Son of God died, so that we could be a single entity with him, One and Three.

- God, although always respecting the work of his hands, has made a law out of love, in order to nearly force humanity delicately to attain the finality of Creation and of Redemption, which is the supreme happiness of man, and that man can never attain outside of love, without love.

My brother, this is the tragedy of humanity: it has happiness within the reach of its hand, but the deicidal thief does everything to prevent men from attaining their happiness. Brother Octavio, this is the only and great problem, this conflict that is perpetuated in time, enveloping all the generations that pass, one after another; it is the genuine and tragic history of humanity.

Seek always and only the glory of God, the truth, and the salvation of souls

What is truly unbelievable, is that they do not want to make of this problem the fundamental center of all ecclesial activity. The enemy makes use of a thousand ideas and pretexts: presumption, fear, timidity, human respect, a tranquil and comfortable existence, strange and troubled interests of having a bureaucratic career, in those who, as guides and conductors of the great army of the confirmed souls, should be the very first and genuine combatants, for the triumph of spiritual life over spiritual death, for the triumph of light over darkness, and of truth over error.

The Archangel Gabriel was right in the message given to you this morning, in encouraging you to be persevering in good in this battle, in which there are interests so great, that greater ones do not exist, interests in which the values and the reasons for the Creation and the Redemption of man are at stake, these being true epicenters of the history of the human race.

Do not pay attention to the foolish judgments of those who, through low and vile personal motives, refuse to see. Seek always and only the glory of God, truth, and the salvation of souls.

The Association in which, Brother Octavio, Providence has placed you as a guide, should be penetrated with this light, with this divine life, which is love, in such a manner, that it should be a sprout first, and afterwards a tree, that everyone will behold and that they will be able to say of it, as they said of the first Christian communities: “Behold how they love one another.”

Brother Octavio, always united in love for him, for his most holy Mother, always united and living more than ever in the Communion of saints, the entire Church triumphant is with you, and how could it be otherwise?

Forward, with the blessing of God, one and three, with that of the Blessed Virgin, and with the help that we are asking for you.

Armando Benatti