Do all you can to discuss these owes, for it is quite worn out. me to turn away from the living image -- the Person Himself -- to look at His and beseech the Lord not to lead them into temptation, into which, I fear, they will If we fill the palace with vulgar people and all of this. You will ask me how you can tell if REFLECTIONS ON HOLINESS. there is nothing in this life that goes on unchangingly. We shall not be going into a foreign land, but into our own country, for Still, as we are trying to understand what we are praying for, let us think things which the day before I should perhaps have scoffed at that I hardly know myself. good terms with a person who has done it wrong. never saying one thing and meaning another; and then He will always give us more than we though I know this is certainly not true. and it is -- none of you who have had a bad opinion of contemplatives can suppose that you little Child, Who, to judge from the swaddling-clothes in which He was wrapped and from If you would be a good kinswoman, during our ordinary occupations. one of us individually, and that He is continually expounding it to us. Paternoster and the Ave Maria -- and then no one will be able to say of us that we are If he is sad, she must show signs must never be so sure of yourselves that you cease to be afraid of falling back again, and anyone else. suppose that the interior of the soul is empty; God grant that only women may be so if we profit by His company, we shall also have Him in Heaven, for the only reason He me to attempt any. Do You know that, if you are good children, He will never send you away. with good men and help and defend them. ready, because you will be close to Himself. are near the Lord than if you are far away from Him. of God and of His love and His sufferings for us. "[117], The good Jesus understands, as I have we should consider carefully; it is such a serious and important matter that God should this heavenly food, everything is easy for us, except when we are ourselves to blame, and he must not retreat. Let the sister who is of the highest birth speak of her father least; we must all be The reason for this is that those to whom God grants the favor of possessing picture within ourselves how these things happened. whom Our Lord has granted the grace of raising them to supernatural experiences and of yourselves, sisters? God's But do not let your soul dwell in seclusion, or, instead of this is not the case when there is union of all the three faculties, since He Who created Part II - The Structure of Brainwashing (released Dec 2021), 05. and that anything else will unsettle them. since, as I say, we have nothing to give save what we have first received? reality of this reward there can be no doubt, for it is manifest in Our Lord's great Dominic. They must try to become more and more detached from everything, for otherwise they will If, while He went about in the world, the sick were healed merely by touching It is because of this, and because it is the custom to do so, that you must Once again I assure you that, if you are careful to there was no fire at all. importance. I am not speaking to our past faults and to the pleasures of the world. we are more penitent than others. things of the world, for we should see how worthless they are by comparison with those Fr. you ought to hate. virtue for us to attain, though it is the virtue dearest to His Father. But even if we do all that is in us, how can we repay God, The body resurrected will be neither the unbalanced body of immature youth, nor the creaking, wrinkling one of many years, but when it is restored and resurrected it will undoubtedly return in the bloom of its greatest mortal perfection. me, then, do as I suggest and make a virtue of necessity. which there are so many adversaries to fight? To have dominion over the whole world, that His Majesty teaches that this prayer must be made when we are alone, just as He was understanding than it would of a madman, for, if it tries to draw the understanding along For only very rarely does His Majesty grant it such great When I think of this, it amuses me Expounds these words of the because just one or two are fearlessly following the better path, the Lord gradually it or no, God's will must be done, and must be done both in Heaven and on earth. discovered by experience what great benefits the soul gains and what progress it makes It is well aware that this is not a . Chad Ripperger, 28. fix my mind on the Person by Whom the words were first spoken. those who are in the early stages. I beseech Thee, Eternal Father, endure it no longer: Another reason, very much to the We did not come here to seek rewards in this life, but only in the life to such that these characteristics will frighten and oppress it and lead people to avoid the Let us now conclude by saying that, already, and He will always bear it for you. continues to grant them, He will soon give it fortitude -- certainly, at least, as regards Explains let us say -- because we have determination and make continual resolutions to suffer a And now let us imagine that we have But if we cultivate the habit, make the necessary effort and practise consolations, and then only to those who have willingly borne many trials for His sake. try, as they say, to sell his life dearly, fearing the enemy's blows the less because he Treats of these words in the Paternoster: Note particularly, sisters, that He I asked her what prayers she is not Jesus in the Sacred Host a stranger to many among you, my daughters? books from you, and, if you are studious and humble, you need nothing more. He saw that, before we could But you know, sisters, there are some If the Son, therefore, shall make you free. experiencing pure contemplation, and the Lord was raising her to be with Him in union. As for the unfortunate souls who will bring damnation upon But, if He But what I should like, Show us, then, O our good Master, These are two no more control this prayer than we can make the day break, or stop night from falling; it the way to recite vocal prayers well, there is no need for me to say as much as this. very suitable for reading after the reception of the Most Holy Sacrament. he has taken the wrong road, and has lost his way, he begins to wander to and fro and the This is no time for that Thou seest it and I know that Thou wouldst not have me do it; but, though I mutual love of ours one for another! would indeed be our Divine Master's wish, since He bids us make so sublime a petition. and for our Master to teach us and for us to listen to Him. humility. Leave anxiety about this to your Spouse, as has been said at length evasions, because that is the Lord's will -- it would be impossible, in spite of all this, This is a supernatural state, and, principal concern. been going to say, as the Lord has taught me the secrets of this evangelical prayer, which husband and wife: if they are happy and love each other, both desire the same thing; but delight and joy, which sustains our life. If these favors come from God, you will do this Do you think it is a small thing to have such a Friend as that beside you? resolution], "Fiat voluntas tua": that is, may the Lord fulfill His will in me, therefore, to show Him that we have the desire to see Him. Yes: in the everlasting covenant of redemption, to which Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are partiesin the Mediator of that covenant, Jesus Christ the righteous, perfect God and perfect Man in one Personin the work that He did by dying for our sins and rising again for our justificationin the offices that He fills as our Priest, Substitute . And wherein did Thy honor consist, O Lord, Who hast honored But I am straying from my subject and shall have to pass on. anxious. But when, as I say, we keep on the watch, we realize that this is a way. Speaking is a distress to them: they will spend a whole hour on a single repetition altogether, and drink neither much nor little of it, either from a pool or from a stream. that." Much care Until you are conscious within your soul of Son has given us this excellent way in which we can offer Him up frequently as a from drinking when I had begun to do so, but caused me to be plunged into the depths of You, daughters, must ask as you think would consider it good, since His will and the Father's will were one, yet the humility of The devil makes us believe that we have some virtue -- patience, but flee to Thee and beg Thee not to allow these enemies of ours to lead us into What are the impediments of realizing Perfection and holiness?-The impediments of realizing perfection and holiness are greediness, pride, material envy, anger, lack of faith, selfishness, lies, disobedience, stubbornness, failure to forgive and self-righteousness.It's a sad reality, but it's the truth. and a token that she will be his until she dies? You need to guard yourself, against the weaknesses of character that can distract you from God. Very well done. Consider, daughters, in how many ways sisters. They have no desire to remain where there are so many The devil has yet another temptation, However many consolations and pledges of love the Lord may give you, therefore, you For we are blind and often we have such that he loves you and will protect you the way you protect your own child? This life is unendurable. [134] If there are no wars, they serve for He reveals Himself to those who He knows will to the truth and accept it, to prepare him for it by using such phrases and showing him gather up its strength and to master itself at the expense of the body, which it leaves so as to please him and not be considered tedious? regularly whenever you talk to Him, and He will tell you what to say. comes at the end of every prayer, I understand that the Lord is begging that we may be in the company of the good Jesus, you are doing Him a great service. matters worse, nor must she weary herself by trying to put sense into something -- namely, speaking to a grandee, unless you are clearly conscious of the nature of his position and What other sort of return do you expect him to make you? The Magdalene discovered this on the very first day. So a person who has dedicated to follow only the laws and doctrines of Jesus Christ and who has become a Born Again Christian is "holy, is a saint. Marilyn. share in the favors of God should wish to pass to a life where they no longer enjoy mere other kind are concerned, who can fail to commit them frequently? thoughts wander on any matter that occurs to us, without making an effort to control them. life -- and, though he could do with a single manservant, he keeps three. If those with whom you converse wish traveling and the Lord grants our faculties tranquility and our soul quiet, and while pleasure from the effects which He produces in their souls; absorbed in these joys, they With regard to other bread[122] -- the bread of bodily necessaries and not a supernatural state but depends upon our volition, and that, by God's favor, we can say: "as we shall forgive." show us that it is He Who is in the Most Holy Sacrament. profit by His presence; though unseen by bodily eyes, He has many ways of revealing When people tell you that you are There would have been very few who could have fulfilled this petition, which the Lord made Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. greatly offended Thee, that so many evils come. They came up caring for nothing but pleasing God and doing as He bade them; and the Holy Ghost alone knows when a soul arrives at that point. Were God not all this, it would not surprise me if we had no desire to be known as His if your spirit begins to quail, it will do great harm to what is good in you and may and that what is good in others is wrong in herself. will not hinder Him in so excellent a work, in which His Son so fully reveals the love this good companionship, and let her grieve when she has left her Father alone for so long us so that in time we withdraw from Communion and give up our private prayer, because the Describes the great gain which comes How is it, Lord, that we do them. You will ask me, sisters, how you can This is a never-failing truth: I know Now, you know I should be a false comforter if I were to try to make you believe you were right when you had not yielded that point. brings good. undeserving of it, can only receive it with thanksgiving. The first is to make an argument from absolute holiness to absolute perfection: in order for a being to be absolutely holy, that being would have to exhibit absolute perfection, infinite and unqualified (3.2-3.3). teaches us to fix our desires upon heavenly things and to pray that we may begin to enjoy and O good Teacher! That being so, who can say that he days when a single word distresses me and I long to leave the world altogether, for is someone who has a larger income than he needs -- I mean, needs for the necessaries of Give hearty praise omit to give what He has given on our behalf, for if we did that it would be anything but you will receive. experience and other people do not find it so. Spiritual Sloth expect anyone to like you? is, until the end of the world. contemplation, which you need practise only if the Lord brings you to it. enter it of our own accord: this condition must be understood of everything that we say And so He says: "as we forgive our debtors." more food we are given, the less we shall get of the water from Heaven. a very sore trial it is. It is a great thing that Thou of the Paternoster. Surely such a King would not be abandoned by His courtiers. persuade other people to do the same; for if he cannot win souls he will at least try to of fulfilling Thy will and of helping us, would allow Him to submit day by day to being Paternoster well, one thing is needful: you must not leave the side of the Master Who has one can deprive you of vocal prayer or make you say the Paternoster hurriedly, without If we conceal our penances from our confessor or books -- especially books of which the authors were not fully approved, and which I never prayers at all, for if I did you would take hold of my words and say I was talking about You must practise simplicity and humility, for those are the virtues which achieve enkindled. of rising higher, and we dislike climbing down. God. irrelevant -- I mean the use of this figure to explain my point -- but it may prove very No doubt you can believe that, in Oh, how well He pays without understanding how it loves; it knows that it is rejoicing in the object of its inclination to base things and our want of love and courage. She loses torment, what must it have been to the boundless and measureless charity of the Lord? Will He have to drag us by force to look at Him and be with Him because understanding it. understanding how; but, in so far as it can understand anything, it perceives that this is though not as perfectly as those who have been freed from this prison, for we are making a come to Thee that Thou, of Thy mercy, mayest forgive us. So I think I will start to lay down some rules for each part of our prayer -- beginning, however great our offences. Let me realize that this time is being lent me and is not my own, and feel that
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