A quote from St. Lawrence of Brindisi

I've been away for a few days, visiting with some friends and being in the mountains of Alberta. I'll post again soon. In the meantime, here's something that I've been thinking about:

God is love, and all his operations proceed from love.

Once he wills to manifest that goodness

by sharing his love outside himself,

then the Incarnation becomes

the supreme manifestation

of his goodness and love and glory.

So, Christ was intended

before all other creatures

and for his own sake.

For him all things were created

and to him all things must be subject,

and God loves all creatures in and because of Christ.

Christ is the first-born of every creature,

and the whole of humanity as well as the created world

finds its foundation and meaning in him.

Moreover, this would have been the case

even if Adam had not sinned.

St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Doctor of the Universal Church