With The Whole Heart

Et diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde... Hic tangit ex quanto est diligendus. Cor autem quia principium est affectionum et motuum, ponitur pro voluntate, ut ex tota voluntate dulcitur diligatur: ita quod nihil voluntatem ab eius dilectione possit illicere et abstrahere. Pone me sicut signaculum super cor tuum. Praebe fili cor tuum mihi. Confitebor tibi Domine in toto corde meo. Cor etiam secundum Augustinum est principium conceptionum et cogitationum: et sic ex toto corde diligitur, quando toto intellectu diligitur ut nullo errore decipiatur: quia ipse ut lumen intellectus in diligendo habetur. Illumina oculos meos, ne unquam obdormiam in morte. Primo modo diligitur dulcedo bonitatis, et secundo lux vertiatis. Anima hominis intellectus est: quia dicit Philosophus quod homo est solus intellectus. Et hoc modo ex tota anima diligere, est ex intellectu absque omni obnubilatione phantasmatum diligere. Sapientiam amavi, et exquisivi mihi eam sponsam accipere: et amator factus sum formae illius, quae pulchra est absque nubilo. Candor est enim lucis aeternae. et speculum sine macula Dei maiestatis, et imago bonitatis illius. Haec est pulchra dilectio. Ego mater pulchrae dilectionis. Dicit tamen Augustinus quod anima ponitur hic pro animo. Ut sit sensus hoc est, ex toto animo, hoc est, voluntate sine contrarietate: quia tota voluntas et animus sic extenditur ad ipsum, quando nihil habetur in voluntate sibi contrarium. Hoc est interior homo de quo dicitur. Condelector legi Dei secundum interiorem hominem. Sic ergo sapienter diligitur Deus. Sanctus Albertus Magnus Commentarium In Evangelium Divi Marci, Caput XII Source: Volumen 9, p148 pdf394

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart... 1 This touches on how much God should be loved. The heart, because it is the principle of affection and emotions, is given here for the will, so that with the whole will He is to be loved sweetly, so that nothing is able to entice or draw away the will from love of Him . 'Place me as a seal upon your heart.' 2 'Give, O son, your heart to me.' 3 'I confess,to you, O Lord, in my whole heart.' 4 Now the heart according to Augustine is the principle of concepts and thoughts, and so He is loved with all the heart when He is loved with the whole understanding, that is, it is not decieved by any error, because in the loving of Him, He is possessed as the light of the understanding. 'Enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep in death.' 5 First He is loved for the sweetness of His benevolence, and secondly as the light of truth. The soul of man is his understanding, because the Philospher says that man alone is rational. 6 And in this way there is the love from the whole soul, that it is a love from an understanding without any obfuscation of appearances. 'I have loved wisdom, and I sought her for myself to have as a bride. And I have become a lover of her form which is beautiful without fault.' 7 'Pure is the eternal light, and a mirror without spot of the majesty of God, and an image of His benelovence. ' 8 This is the love which is beautiful. 'I am a mother of beautiful love.' 9 However Augustine says that the soul is used here for desire. So that the sense then is 'with all desire,' that is, from the will without opposition, because the whole will and desire is reaching out to Him when it has nothing in the will that opposes it. And this is that interior man concerning which it says: 'I delight in the law of God according to the interior man.' 10 So God is loved wisely. Saint Albert The Great, Commentary On The Gospel of St Mark, Chapter 12 1 Mk 12.30 2 Song 8.6 3 Prov 23.26 4 Ps 9.2 5 Ps 12.4 6 Aristotle 7 Wisd 8.2 8 Wisd 7.26 9 Sirach 24.24 Vulgate 10 Rom 7.22