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LACORDAIRE Henri-Dominique (1802-1861).
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LACORDAIRE Henri-Dominique (1802-1861).
L.A.S., Aisey-le-Duc 18 October 1838, at Hercule de SERRE in Boulogne near Paris| 3 pages in-4, address. A
long and beautiful letter about God, love and
evil.
"You always assume that God made the world the way it is, and I assure you he had very little to do with it. Evil is a child of man, because man has preferred himself to God. If God had given him freedom of choice, it is because freedom of choice is essential to the act of love, and the act of love is sovereign bliss. For the act of love to be reciprocal, it must contain two movements: the movement of embrace and the movement of dedication. ...] Freedom is therefore necessary for love, that is to say, for happiness. It is true that one day man will love God without suffering any more the fatal swaying that torments him today| but this love of paradise, this love of infinite embrace, will only be the continuation of the love of choice that we have begun on earth. That is why Jesus Christ, who was immolated only once, is eternally priest, eternally victim, because the act of love which he performs eternally in heaven is the continuation of the one he had in his heart on the cross. Man is therefore free to love by choice| he has chosen wrong, and evil has been the result of this false election. But, O truly divine wonder! The evil born of man's wrong choice, born of his indifference to God, by becoming an occasion for sacrifice and penance, has become an inexhaustible source of love". Etc.
Two other L.A.S. are attached: Rome 22 May 1836, to Mr. Miller, giving his address in Rome| Paris 1 December 1843, sending H. de Serre a ticket to Notre-Dame.
L.A.S., Aisey-le-Duc 18 October 1838, at Hercule de SERRE in Boulogne near Paris| 3 pages in-4, address. A
long and beautiful letter about God, love and
evil.
"You always assume that God made the world the way it is, and I assure you he had very little to do with it. Evil is a child of man, because man has preferred himself to God. If God had given him freedom of choice, it is because freedom of choice is essential to the act of love, and the act of love is sovereign bliss. For the act of love to be reciprocal, it must contain two movements: the movement of embrace and the movement of dedication. ...] Freedom is therefore necessary for love, that is to say, for happiness. It is true that one day man will love God without suffering any more the fatal swaying that torments him today| but this love of paradise, this love of infinite embrace, will only be the continuation of the love of choice that we have begun on earth. That is why Jesus Christ, who was immolated only once, is eternally priest, eternally victim, because the act of love which he performs eternally in heaven is the continuation of the one he had in his heart on the cross. Man is therefore free to love by choice| he has chosen wrong, and evil has been the result of this false election. But, O truly divine wonder! The evil born of man's wrong choice, born of his indifference to God, by becoming an occasion for sacrifice and penance, has become an inexhaustible source of love". Etc.
Two other L.A.S. are attached: Rome 22 May 1836, to Mr. Miller, giving his address in Rome| Paris 1 December 1843, sending H. de Serre a ticket to Notre-Dame.