Day 3: Tuesday, March 10

Then came a voice from heaven: I both have glorified it, and will glorify it again. Then the crowd, standing and hearing, said that it thundered; others said, An angel spoke to Him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came to pass not for the sake of Me, but for the sake of you. Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the ruler of this world be cast outside. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all to Myself. And this He said, signifying by what death He was about to die. The crowd answered Him, We have heard out of the Law that Christ remains to eternity; and how sayest Thou that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man? Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little time is the Light with you; walk while you have the Light, lest darkness take you; and he who walks in darkness knows not whither he goes. While you have the Light, believe in the Light, that you may be sons of Light. Jesus spoke these things, and departing, was hidden from them. John 12:28-36

Every covenant is for the sake of conjunction, that is, for the sake of living in mutual friendship, or love. For this reason, marriage also is called a covenant. There is no conjunction of the Lord with man except in love and charity, for the Lord is love and mercy itself. He wills to save everyone and to draw him with mighty power to heaven, that is, to Himself. From this everyone may know and conclude that no one can ever be conjoined with the Lord except through that which He Himself is, that is, except by becoming like or making one with Him—in other words, by loving the Lord in return and loving the neighbor as himself. Arcana Coelestia 1038

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