Faith is our capacity for love

To understand faith, it really is simply necessary to think about how we use the word – a faithful friend, a faithful husband, a faithful wife, or keeping good faith with a promise we’ve made. Faith means relationship in which we persevere in the commitment that we make, and that commitment goes deeper as time passes. John Main said, on the journey of meditation, more faith, deeper faith, not less is needed in order to keep going on the journey. And this is because the journey of meditation itself opens up our capacity and expands it for this faith. Faith is our capacity for love. ‘The beginning is faith, the end is love, and the union of the two is God,’ said St Irenaeus 

Breakthrough by Laurence Freeman OSB