'Let him who has love in Christ keep the commandments
of Christ. Who can describe the [blessed] bond of the love of God? What
man is able to tell the excellence of its beauty, as it ought to be
told? The height to which love exalts is unspeakable. Love unites us to
God. Love covers a multitude of sins. Love beareth all things, is
long-suffering in all things. There is nothing base, nothing arrogant in
love. Love admits of no schisms: love gives rise to no seditions: love
does all things in harmony. By love have all the elect of God been made
perfect; without love nothing is well-pleasing to God. In love has the
Lord taken us to Himself. On account of the Love he bore us, Jesus
Christ our Lord gave His blood for us by the will of God; His flesh for
our flesh, and His soul for our souls.'
