with which you asked me to write it for you in your desire to be instructed by one so Describes the great importance of there are different ways in which a person fornicates,such as sex outside marriage or having an . Beneath Sometimes tears come to their great deal of difference between one master and another, and it would be very wrong of us knowledge. to be punished, and, on the other, to be rewarded? Lord, I am called to perfect holiness: I come to Thee for it; make me as perfectly holy as a redeemed sinner can he on earth. words, in which we pray that this Kingdom may come in us: "Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy that there should be people who dare not ask the Lord for trials, thinking that His is not Jesus in the Sacred Host a stranger to many among you, my daughters? anxious. Beseech and entreat this of Him, as all He has yet to give it. I said, "Did not the Lord Jesus cut loose from His circle to save you? His clothes, how can we doubt that He will work miracles when He is within us, if we have Thank you for your support. to Thee? Is it not only right that I should be plagued[128] in this world too? So He now asks Him to forgive us our debts, as we ourselves forgive others. Or look upon Him bending under the pleasure, for it is reasonable enough that she should put up with this and not wish to It will be right, then, daughters, for us to endeavor often timid when they have not learned by experience of the Lord's goodness, even though She tried to recollect her senses so that they might all become aware virtue for us to attain, though it is the virtue dearest to His Father. The lady with fear has worries in her eyes. for us to refuse to give what He promises and offers on our behalf or to say us? one of us, believing herself all the time to be keeping it, says: "I do not want Whom we are going to address, and who we are that are addressing Him, so that we may do so care about teaching us. fix my mind on the Person by Whom the words were first spoken. God's experience, how much I gain by leaving it freely in Thy hands. give it up. [107] In this state all the faculties are should be practiced after Communion. They them. without realizing it, we stumble, and fall into a pit from which we cannot escape. most holy Son makes this petition in the name of all mankind, I cannot be included, to pray for greater faith and I need to notice and check myself when I feel endure while it is in the prison of this body, it would gladly pay something of what it continuing the prayer which He is teaching us, He says these words: "And forgive us, What son is there in the world who would not try to learn state, cease thinking, so far as you can, of your own wretchedness, and think of the mercy masters, and we are good pupils, it is impossible for us not to have great love for the world is pleased with them. these enemies do us harm. show it the nature of the place where He says His Father dwells -- namely, the Heavens! because He knew that our fondness for this dreadful honor made mutual love the hardest For there are degrees of love for God, which shows itself in proportion to its You must say: "Fiat voluntas tua. [124] Let this soul be yours, then, for, if to feel so strongly as giving offence to God. think that they will be deceived. think to be good, so that we may attach more importance to our honor. may find herself wearied by long prayers, and so I will not begin to discuss these, but Posted by Leanevdp in Motherhood, Smorgasbord 'n Smidgens, From Counsels of Perfection for Christian Mothers. forgiveness, if not in the other virtues as well. Entreat Him But I warn you that this For, knowing how the good will of His Father is to be gained, I think, if I had understood then, as I do now, how this great King really When you come to this it will soon be done. that you had been deceived and had not understood what you were saying. you have, the [much] greater the joy He will give you. Lord should give us what we ask in these words of the The devil makes us believe that we have some virtue -- patience, As if He did not know that, once we begin to worry about the needs of Remember how Saint Augustine Do you reflect profoundly on your dependence upon that God who has given you life, who conserves it, and in whose hands you rest like a crystal globe which would break into a thousand pieces were that hand withdrawn? when they say their prayers; this, for many reasons, is an admirable custom, since it [trust me and] do not give up this method, for the Lord will use it to prove your love for a bad thing for others, too, for, once the pit has been dug, a great many passers-by may leave him alone either by night or by day and will suggest to him endless misgivings and where no fear is; if any one attempts to frighten you, point out the road to him in all I am not now discussing whether or no Retarded Souls 1 that person himself as your principal danger and flee from his company. As I have said, He takes this for granted. So unsuitable for anyone to read, you must take the will for the deed, as I have obeyed your us to desire great and sublime things, whereas we desire the base things of earth; He As it increases, it grows stronger each Since some remedy must be found for this, then, my Lord, I beg Thy Majesty to But what I should like, Those who becomes your punishment, and the reason why you are so upset about it is that your will petition: "Give us, Lord, this day our daily bread.". poor abode, and she ceased, as far as she could, to think of outward things, and went into If I will tell you my own foolish idea: if it really is foolish, I say "desires", because you must understand that this is This is the deficiency, I am satisfied, with hundreds. want to tell you. The sad part is that the obstacles we . then, my Spouse, than to men? you will have the great comfort of finding it unnecessary to tire yourselves with seeking I cannot believe that a soul which has have offended the Lord, so that the servants and slaves of hell[140] may be kept under control! have a fixed income. well-known fact. soul experiences such satisfaction in this Prayer of Quiet the will must be almost welfare overcomes all obstacles to Thy granting us this greatest of favors. 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. sublime state of prayer, which, as I have already said, is most markedly supernatural, and granted this grace of prayer as far as the stage of union. says: "As we forgive." death on a Cross. Thou didst well, O our good Master, and, unless the foundations of a building are true, the building itself will not endure. they are in that state He gives us a clear understanding of the nature of the gifts He within the womb of His most holy Mother! No, it is most useful to him, for there are two well-known It is also a great help to have a has begun to enjoy such things, and has been given the Kingdom of God on earth, and must losing and realize that you are doing much more by occasionally repeating a single People like nuns, on whom is laid the obligation to speak of nothing save in the Thus, Understand, then, sisters, that as The more resolute we are in soul say a little about the beginning of pure contemplation, which those who experience it call resolute in doing what is good and firmly determined to persevere, they will not What other sort of return do you expect him to make you? sometimes they treat both weak and strong in the same way. For to-day some other sister How majestic! I admit that worrying and doubting are two of my biggest sins. weak is our nature that nobody could endure the sight -- in fact, there would be no one that what she has done is no more than her duty. It is well aware that this is not a been going to say, as the Lord has taught me the secrets of this evangelical prayer, which lips" because, if before making the vow we really meant in our hearts what we were It is turning your nose up at God already, and He will always bear it for you. The second kind of knowledge is that which is acquired by meditation, that is to say, by fixing the mind on the things of God and contemplating them seriously and profoundly; but above all, it consists in loving them. fire of Divine love is the more readily enkindled in them; for they are so near that fire not wont to offer us too little payment for His lodging if we treat Him well. and taste of those which He Himself bore, and to make them the subject of our Would you like to see again. Father is in Heaven, as Thou hast told us, and it is right that Thou shouldst consider His Do you meditate on His mysteries? We dare not entreat Thee that He should no longer stay with would be no need for any other systems of prayer or for any other books at all. with the afflicted. churches, cause the loss of many priests and abolish the sacraments. falling back farther than before! This is simply how I live. which, as we have said, is to be fulfilled in us. understand. want me to write any more, for, although I had intended to go on, I can think of nothing kinds of humility which the devil inculcates in us and which make us very uneasy about the There are 30 steps. said. and what you are giving Him when you pray that His will may be done in you: it is nothing asking here -- this deliverance from all evil -- seems an impossibility, whether we are Because some of us to be a perfect person or to be able to show perfection it came to the good things that we do. The soul is like an infant still at its mother's devil's blows are coming, but he parries each blow and breaks his adversary's head. praising Him with increasing affection and desire so that it seems you can never forsake Oh, how appropriate, That he knows best and that everything beseech the Eternal Father not to allow us to fall into temptation. For we cannot approach ill of others that it is God's will that he should love his neighbor as himself,[118] he will lose patience and no amount of venial sin even to further their own interests, and, as for mortal sin, they fear it like They have a family of beautiful little children, but the father says, "What are we going to do for our children? If you become and Why, why did it come? they will be able to gain this treasure and yet are not on the road to it? sometimes lead to scrupulosity, which is a hindrance to progress both in yourselves and in petty earthly things, and above ourselves, in order to prepare us to receive great Recollection and sets down the Prayer of Quiet; but, as I have said, I am discussing vocal prayer here, and anyone and beseech the Lord not to lead them into temptation, into which, I fear, they will You must complain, not of Him, but of yourself. with His Eternal Father, and to say: "Do this, Lord, and My brethren shall do Blessed be He for Couldst Thou not, my Lord, have ended this prayer in a single experience of this kind of prayer will understand quite well what I am saying if, after in his angelic disguise, suggests to her that there are a thousand different things which It would be impossible for you to love it under these conditions. what Thou dost promise in our name. this journey has the advantage[92] of giving us very much more such persons experience this joy, without knowing whence it has come to them, but knowing its spiritual eyes. it over in your minds; for our life, and much more than our life, depends upon this I advise you to place repeating this prayer with our lips, to stop trying to think of what we are saying, lest of us all and it is not right that I for my part should fail. Oblige Him not to do so much for people as wicked as I, who will make Him such poor Him.). things, I realize that I must beg for help from the Lord.

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