By love of complacency, we take personal pleasure in the good of our friend, by love of benevolence we desire to see that good increased. The benevolence of charity consists in an ever-present desire that the glory of God may be promoted by all men who live upon the earth, that His Kingdom may spread, that the number of the saints may receive continual additions, and that sinners may be converted to Him. This is the chief wish of our hearts and it is ever-present in our minds - that the interests of God will be advanced everywhere.
This love of benevolence also includes a feeling of grief and sorrow whenever we hear of anything that is an insult to God's honor or that diminishes His eternal glory. All the sins of men cause pain to those in whose hearts supernatural charity is present. All sacrileges, impieties, or forgetfulness of God that they witness hurt them and cause them to suffer. Above all, they are compassionate to the sacred sufferings of Jesus and the agony of Body and mind that our sins caused Him.
Charity, moreover, requires that we shall not be satisfied with a mere feeling of good will. Our benevolence must be a practical one. We must do our part to add to God's glory. In proportion to our charity will be our devotion of every act and word and thought to the glory of God. When Saint Paul said, "Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God," he was but inculcating a precept of charity. What do I do to promote God's glory? Alas, how much less than I ought!
- text from Charity, Meditations for a Month by Father Richard Frederick Clarke, SJ