The good Jesus bids us say these
words: ‘Hallowed be Thy Name; Thy kingdom come in us’. It is well that we
should all learn what we ask for when praying for this kingdom.
His Majesty saw that, unless He
enabled us to do so by giving us His kingdom here on earth, our natural defects
would render us unfit either to hallow, praise, magnify, glorify, or extol the
holy Name of the eternal Father. Therefore the good Jesus placed the two
petitions close together.
In the kingdom of heaven the soul
dwells in perfect peace and feels supreme satisfaction at seeing that all those
around it honour and praise God and bless His Name, and at knowing that they
never offend Him.
In heaven everyone loves Him; the
soul cares for nothing but loving Him: it cannot cease to do so because it
knows Him as He is.
If only we knew Him we should love
Him in the same way in this world, and although not so constantly and so
perfectly as in heaven, yet very differently from what we do now.
The Way of Perfection 30: 3,4
