Theological Foundations new file

27 God in the Center must make efforts to proceed towards the perfect union with God by faithfully keeping His commandments and teaching and by obeying the orders of those who are His substitutes.” 6 Furthermore, the love of God is to manifest itself in performing every good and avoiding every evil: “Out of the love of God you will bear with willingness and fortitude mortifications, afflictions, reproofs, injuries, calumnies, labors, pains, destitution, austerity, and other situations like these. Out of the love of God you will carry out in a most perfect way your exercises, duties, jobs entrusted to you, and whatever concerns your state and vocation. You will consecrate to Divine Love all of your entire life, daily actions and sufferings, and each and every moment, par- ticulars, circumstances, changes. Each and every action and suffering by due submission, confidence and piety [will be consecrated] for all eter- nity on the altar of love, by a pure heart joined to the merits of Christ the Lord, His Immaculate Mother, all of the Saints, and the universal Church.” 7 Father Stanislaus consistently emphasizes that the love of God under- stood in this way is to encompass virtually the entire man and all of his life. He tries to express this thought with his characteristic zeal and attention to every detail so typical of the times in which he lived. For it was his opinion that if one truly loves, one wants to say everything and sacrifice everything. All encompassing love is also to be manifested in the way a religious community functions. The Superior General will take care to have other officials throughout the entire Congregation — Procurators, Economes, Zealots — who will try to fulfill their duties most diligently for the love of God, for the merit of obedience, so that they may one day receive a reward from our Lord. 8 Father Stanislaus recommended that his confreres practice the love of God and he did so not only in the religious rule that he wrote but also in other more general letters, and in his testament. In his letter to the mem- bers of the house in the Korabiew Forest, he recommended that they cul- tivate such love and take great care to observe their vows, pray fervent-