# Living on Love In the evening of Love, speaking without parables, Jesus said: "If anyone wants to love me all her life, let her keep my word, and my Father and I will come to visit her. And making our home in her heart, coming to her, we will love her always! Filled with peace, we want her to live in our Love!" Living on Love is keeping You, Uncreated Word, Word of my God. Ah! You know that I love You, divine Jesus! The Spirit of Love sets me aflame with his fire. It is by loving You that I attract the Father. My weak heart keeps him, never to leave. O Trinity! You are the prisoner of my Love! Living on Love is living from your life, Glorious King, delight of the elect. You live for me, hidden in the Host. For you, O Jesus, I want to hide myself! Lovers have need of solitude. A heart-to-heart that lasts night and day, your gaze alone makes my happiness, I live on Love! Living on Love is not, on earth, to pitch one's tent on the summit of Tabor, but it is to climb Calvary with Jesus, it is to look on the Cross as a treasure! In Heaven I will live in enjoyment, then suffering will have fled forever. But in exile I want, in suffering, to live on Love! Living on Love is giving without measure, without seeking any wages here below. Ah! I give without counting, certain that when one loves, one does not calculate! To the divine Heart, overflowing with tenderness, I have given all. Lightly I run. I have nothing left but my only wealth: Living on Love. Living on Love is to banish all fear, every memory of past faults. I see no trace of my sins. In an instant, Love has burned up everything. O divine Flame, very sweet Furnace! I make my home in your hearth. In your fire I sing at ease: "I live on Love!" Living on Love is keeping within myself a great treasure in an earthen vessel. My Beloved, my weakness is extreme. Ah! I am far from being an angel from Heaven! But if I fall at every passing hour, you come to my aid, lifting me up. At each moment you give me your grace: I live on Love. Living on Love is sailing unceasingly, sowing peace and joy in every heart. O beloved Pilot, Charity urges me on, for I see you in my sisters' souls. Charity is my only star. By its brightness I sail straight onward. I have my motto written on my sail: "Living on Love." Living on Love, when Jesus is sleeping, is rest on the stormy waves. O Lord, do not fear that I will awaken you. I wait in peace for Heaven's shore. Faith will soon tear away its veil. My hope is to see you one day. Charity swells and pushes my sail: I live on Love! Living on Love, O my divine Master, is begging you to pour out your fire into the holy and sacred soul of your priest. May he be purer than a seraph in Heaven! Ah! glorify your immortal Church! Jesus, do not be deaf to my sighs. I, her child, sacrifice myself for her: I live on Love. Living on Love is wiping your face, it is obtaining pardon for sinners. O God of Love! May they return to your grace, and may they bless your name forever. Even in my heart blasphemy resounds. To efface it, I always want to sing: "I adore and love your sacred Name: I live on Love!..." Living on Love, is imitating Mary, bathing your divine feet that she kisses, enraptured, with tears, with precious perfumes. She dries them with her long hair. Then, standing up, she breaks the vase, and in turn she anoints your sweet Face. As for me, the perfume with which I anoint your Face is my Love!..." "Living on Love, what strange folly!" The world says to me. "Ah! Stop your singing. Do not waste your perfumes, your life. Learn to use them well..." Loving you, Jesus, is such a fruitful loss! All my perfumes are yours forever. On leaving this world, I want to sing: "I am dying of Love!" Dying of Love is a sweet martyrdom, and it is this that I would like to suffer. O Cherubim! Tune your lyre, for I feel it, my exile is going to end! Flame of Love, consume me without ceasing. Life of an instant, your burden is too heavy for me! Divine Jesus, make my dream come true: To die of Love! Dying of love is what I hope for when I shall see my bonds broken. My God will be my great reward. I don't desire to possess other goods. I want to be set on fire with his love. I want to see him, to unite myself to him forever. That is my Heaven... that is my destiny: Living on Love!!! <!-- prayer-nav --> --- ← [[litany-to-all-the-holy-angels|Litany of the Holy Angels]] | [[carmelite-prayers| 🙏 Carmelite Prayers]] | [[longer-form-of-binding-prayer|Binding Prayer (Long Form)]] →