Great Sea of Infinite Charity

During these holy days I desire that your good heart receive the most penetrating impressions of that infinite love which, for our salvation, caused the most gentle Son of God to immerse himself in a sea of most bitter sufferings.  Thus swimming by holy contemplation in this great sea of infinite charity, you might be ever more enriched by those deepest treasures which the loving soul is accustomed to derive from that very rich mine of every virtue and every good.  For the same is totally transformed by love into Jesus Christ and enjoys the full, ineffable grace of his glorious resurrection (From a letter of St. Paul of the Cross).