Charity, is it the driving force of our lives? Can the outsider look at you and say: “there is charity”? “There is God!”?

The western world is crumbling before our eyes. 7 seconds, if that, is the attention span on this social media. 100s of thousands of views, maybe even millions of views for the videos which depict the beauty of the western world, built up in faith.

We read the captions which speak of the brilliance of man’s capacity, the desire of man to showcase beauty. BUT we forget of what beauty first and foremost consists in: a life of charity.

Charity? It’s not worldly success, it’s not a double life, it’s not ensuring that no offense is given. Charity is laying down one’s life for his friends. And, your first friend is meant to be God.

I walk around Rome, I see the beautiful baroque monuments. I see the churches built in honor of God and his Saints. Each day they become emptier and emptier shells of former glory. But why is that?

The glory that is meant to make the interior resplendent is the glory of your life, of my life. The glory of the virtues, the glory of the memorial of the death of Christ and His Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven, made resplendent in our hearts and our minds, in our actions and words.

Your life is wasted, no matter how much success or followers or whatever you amass, your life is wasted if it’s not in the love of God and His commands.

Love and do what you will. True love.