While faith and hope will be at an end in Heaven the virtue of charity will remain. There is nothing on earth so sweet as love; nothing that fills the heart with such continual joy; nothing that so occupies the soul and causes men to forget all else. This is the case when the object of our love is a perishable imperfect creature like ourselves. How much more when the object of our love is the God of infinite beauty, containing in Himself every possible earthly perfection, not only multiplied to an infinite degree, but altogether higher in kind, and therefore a source of greater joy than all possible created beauty.

A strong love makes the long hours pass away in a scream of unceasing delight; no weariness, no monotony, no desire for anything else. One thing only checks the perfection of the happiness of love, and that is the thought that it cannot last for ever. In Heaven there will be a stream of delight immeasurably richer, and the joyful consciousness that there is no fear of its ever coming to an end.

As God is infinite in His perfections, they will necessarily be inexhaustible. The various phases (if we may use the term) of His Divine loveliness will never come to an end. After a million years there will still be the same inexhaustible treasure of multiform delights to be enjoyed, and after a million years it will not be diminished. No fear then of sameness in Heaven, no fear of monotony, it will ever be the same and yet ever new.

Pray for a greater love of God here on earth.