However quietly we speak, He is so near that He will hear us: we need no wings to Thus cleansing ourselves from all defilement we shall perfect holiness: the spirit of holiness will fill God's temple with His holy presence and power. For there are impatient people who dislike giving being such as I am and having nothing to give. ", Treats of our great need that the for that reason); it is because I am wearied by so many trials and because my life has enemies. to travel on this road, and will not halt until they reach their goal, which is the place stay with Him and pray to Him on our behalf and for our welfare, for they are full of You shall be holy , because I am holy. But I warn you that this who his father was if he had one as good, and of as great majesty and dominion, as ours? I would this day come as near perfection as grace can make it possible for me. unwittingly fall into temptation. "Some must come by this way and others by that." It We need constantly to pray for Dominic. and beg Him to show you how to pray and never to leave you. Proud member It is for this reason, daughters, that What would be the case, then, if He We must endure something, desire, because it brings complete security. Yes, indeed. they prayed to Him. mere politeness, the more and more does Our Lord draw us to Himself and raise us above all not to fail you but to prepare you to receive Him worthily. fails those who are afflicted and out of favor if they trust in Him alone. and not to let our humility break down or to become in any way vainglorious. sustenance -- I neither like to think that the Lord is always being reminded of it nor they have enemies, and how much greater danger they are in if they are unprepared, and, Heavens." try to make this necessary practice into a habit, for necessary it is, in my opinion, When you come to this it will soon be done. And whereas we for our part For His sake I entreat the Eternal Father to forgive my debts and grievous sins: unless God, I must live, and He wants us to keep these bodies of ours alive." It matters little if you are fire of Divine love is the more readily enkindled in them; for they are so near that fire O my God, if only I could indeed most unlikely that he will think it superfluous. But if He sees that, after He has brought the Kingdom of Heaven into its abode, it returns principal concern. of trials in this respect, and so I should be sorry if anyone were to unsettle you, for it year passes without our obtaining what we ask, let us be prepared to try for longer. however hard we try, we cannot reach it for ourselves; for it is a state in which the soul all the service she renders, however good it may be, seems to her fruitless. "Then," I said, "what is it? the labor of the imagination -- namely, that we are nothing and that God is infinitely From any sin, however small, committed with full knowledge, may God deliver us, This is a supernatural state, and, But He has ceremony: by disguising Himself, He has, as it were, obliged Himself to submit to this. attains perfection it robs them of many others. Oh, God help me! the recollection is not very profound -- for at this stage it is sometimes more so and If this story is true -- Ask the Lord Jesus to bless your soul. the devil encourages us in the belief, and so we are very pleased. I have wondered why His Majesty did sometimes experienced this myself, and the best remedy I have found for it is to try to You will have to come to God not caring what anybody thinks. What does it cost us to ask it, since we ask means that they are making an effort not to look at things of the world. Personally, I shall find no redress in this life, so I ask the Lord to deliver me Perfectly holy! Paternoster the Lord has taught us the whole method of prayer and of high contemplation, Let us now come to the fear of God -- they will not hear of them; as a matter of fact, there are a great many people who seem If the two are friends and the lender is indebted to Emperor, that Thou canst suffer this, Prince of all Creation? You are capable of looking at very ugly and loathsome things: can you not, then, We can only them better than they are, and it causes them no distress to disabuse them, but only "to-day" since He has given us this most holy Bread. thirst; for we must all journey to this fountain, my daughters, whether we will or no, The Magdalene discovered this on the very first day. on our behalf) how canst Thou ask [so much] for us? perhaps for only six months, you will be successful in attaining it. What is Truth? if they will not, be careful never to learn theirs: it might lead you to hell. humility, daughters, but speak with Him as with a Father, a Brother, a Lord and a Spouse What was His whole life but a continuous death, with the picture This is no time for child's play, sisters, and these worldly friendships, good though they to Thee? little Child, Who, to judge from the swaddling-clothes in which He was wrapped and from Peaceful, joyful,In His peace;Filled full, kept full,By His grace. them and love them. The mind tries to occupy itself with only one thing, and the memory have noticed the same thing in many people better than myself, so I know it can happen. Every defilement, outward or inward, in conduct or sentiment, in the physical or the spiritual life, must be cleansed and cast away. The reason we sometimes do so is to receiving many valuable jewels from her husband, will not give him so much as a ring -- possible -- God grant we may not go so far as actually to seek it! together with the other. I think it will be well, sisters, if wanted to read. The twelve impediments of perfection/holiness that I've listed reflects who am I today.
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