Writings of St. Peter Julian Eymard
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The Humility of Love.pdf You will make your meditation on the humility of love. A king wanted to get married. He was a perfect king, with all the qualities that make great kings. He had a large kingdom and he was honored by his subjects. He wanted to espouse someone worthy of him. All who were part of a princely family were hoping to catch his eye and please him, but everyone was surprised when his choice landed on the least girl in his kingdom. Everyone was saying: How could the king have taken someone whose pare Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Humility of Mind Heart and Body.pdf I think you were attentive to your short meditation this morning – it fits you well. Humility is your dowry as spouses of Jesus Christ, to be Servants of the Most Blessed Sacrament. You have no other. If the Good Lord asked you for another dowry, you could not give it to him. Examine all the virtues, and you’ll find them impossible. You may practice them a little, but their perfection is impossible for you. It’s the same with the virtues of the mind, those that come from the working Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Interior Attraction of Recollection.pdf We said that you must serve God through your attraction of grace. We gave some preliminaries; now let’s continue. It is clear that we must serve God as he wants to be served – the will of God becomes the norm for good works. We will experience great consolation and encouragement, once we have established this principle! Who knows whether the Good Lord is pleased when I practice this specific virtue, when I enter this vocation? Who knows if God is happy? As soon as I start doubting when Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Last Days of Holy Week.pdf This week we celebrate the mysteries of the Passion. They are great and solemn; meditate on them. You must enter into their spirit, and follow the grace of each day. Tomorrow, we recall the betrayal of Judas. The Church has always considered Wednesday as a day of sadness. It is a day of penance in many religious orders. When permission is given to eat meat, Wednesday is excluded. On that day, our Lord was sold. This crime is often repeated through bad Communions, and the Church remembe Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Life of Love.pdf Our Lord Jesus Christ said: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will have their fill (Mt 5:6). This is not said in today’s world, where these people are called unfortunate. If you are hungry, you must eat. If you are thirsty, you must drink. Our Lord Jesus Christ considered happiness to consist in satisfying hunger and thirst. In heaven, the saints always live of the Good Lord; they never exhaust him. Their hunger and thirst are always satisfied, and yet they al Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Life of Our Lord in Us.pdf Recollection means pouring ourselves into God – that’s the first part. The second part is making room for God to live in us – our Lord in us. At first, we are the ones going into God. We go there by choice and out of love, renouncing everything along the way. That’s fine! Once a soul resides in God, the reverse occurs, as I told you frequently in the past. These truths are not easy to grasp. Our Lord says: Whoever eats me remains in me (cf. Jn 6:56). First we go, then there is Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Life of the Blessed Virgin in the Cenacle.pdf Let us reflect on the life of the Blessed Virgin in the Cenacle. Everyone has a center of life that gives stability. For example, a child’s center of life is the affection of its mother, its family home. A merchant’s center of life is his business, he thinks only of that, and dwells there. A scholar’s center of life is knowledge, etc. Every person has a center of life, in which to rest, recreate, and find pleasure. A young man may work the entire day far from his family; he is happy Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Loving Sacrifice of Our Lord in the Eucharist.pdf What is a sacrifice? Renunciation. There are two kinds: suffering of the body and renunciation of the soul. The greater the sacrifices are, greater is the love; the less perfect they are, the more love decreases. This is the rule: there is no love without sacrifice. While the love of God is perfect, when he wants to show it to us, he shows it by sacrifice Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Mercy of Love.pdf My dear Sisters, we spoke about the love that our Lord gives us; now let us see how he forgives us. We need his forgiveness more than his gifts; we have more guilt than virtue; we do more harm than good. My poor Daughters, we miss out on many graces! We render so many graces barely effective, if not sterile, by our own fault! What touches me more deeply about the love of God for us is his mercy; it touches me more than his gifts. When he gives, he is so good that he cannot help but give; an Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Mission of the Holy Spirit.pdf Let us reflect on the mission of the Holy Spirit in us. The Holy Spirit has a mission, since he is sent. You know what is written in the Gospel, that he is sent by Jesus Christ who says, If I do not go, the Advocate (Holy Spirit) will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you (cf. Jn 16:7). Clearly, then, the Holy Spirit has a mission. The eternal Word has a mission as Savior, while the Holy Spirit has one as Sanctifier of souls. Alone, Jesus is not sufficient. The Father give Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Month of Mary.pdf here comes the month of Mary; we will begin it tonight, as we end the final day of April. Our men will do the same. We have prepared our chapel that is even more beautiful than yours. Although we are Religious of the Most Blessed Sacrament, we must not for that reason have a lesser devotion to the Blessed Virgin. It would be offensive to say, Jesus is enough for me. Where do we find Jesus on earth, if not in Mary’s arms? We cannot separate Jesus from Mary, for isn’t she the Gate of He Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Mystery of Suffering.pdf God surrounds suffering with mystery – especially the sufferings of love that we can call the sufferings of sanctification. He wraps them up, he hides them from us. He has to wrap them as in a veil of mystery, so that we will not recognize them. We can have a foreboding of sufferings, and, no doubt, know them in advance, and we can say: I will suffer. But the spiritual man does not see the suffering until the time of God has come. God does not manifest it. Each of us has a sum of sufferi Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Presentation of our Lord.pdf The Presentation of our Lord and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin is a great feast both in heaven and on earth. Heaven has never received so great a victim as our Lord offered by the hands of his mother. And earth has never possessed so great a gift as this fruit of the earth, the flower of Jesse (cf. Is 11:1), the fruit of the virginity of Mary. The earth was so rich that the angels in heaven could never equal a gift in any way comparable to that offered by Mary. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin.pdf God was drawing her with his love. David, the ancestor of the Blessed Virgin, said: I rejoiced because they said to me, “We will go up to the house of the Lord.” (Ps 121:1) She rejoiced, as we will, when we go to heaven. In her visit, she preceded her parents; love has wings. Everyone must have noticed this little girl, so good and pure, especially when she climbed the stairs of the temple, built on a mountain, Mt. Mello. Why did she run ahead? To arrive sooner, to be the first to kiss Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Purity of Love.pdf 1866 God loves you with an infinite, perpetual, and eternal love, that is my hope, since he has given you sufficient signs of that love. Now, you should want to love him as much as you can. In order to love the Good Lord well, my Sisters, you must be pure and not offend him. You must avoid everything that displeases him, that’s the one and only proof that you love the Good Lord. To love him perfectly, you must give yourself in religious life. Try to be good religious. If you want to Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Purpose of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament.pdf The purpose of man is to know, love, and serve God in this world and to possess him in the next – that is the catechism. The purpose of the Christian changes one word: to know, love and serve Jesus Christ, God and man, in this world, and to share his glory in heaven. As for you, my Sisters, your purpose is the know, love, and serve Jesus Christ in the most Blessed Sacrament of the altar in this world, and reign with him in heaven. That is your entire law; that is your purpose. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Qualities of Eucharistic Service.pdf How shall I serve Jesus in his loveable sacrament? With all my mind, with all my heart, with all my will, and with all my strength. (Mt? Mk 12:29) 1º With all my mind. The Holy Eucharist will be my dominant thought; his better service will be my ambition; his perpetual service will be my most glorious bond with him. I will be indifferent to whatever cannot be related to the service of the adorable Eucharist, because it is not my task, not my duty as a servant. I will consider as an exerc Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Recollection of Love.pdf Recollection means going from outside to inside, paying attention to God in us. I deliberately avoided using a word that would have surprised you; namely, loving attention to God in us. Whoever speaks of attraction, speaks of love, since that is its character. Perfection is just that. The desire to make him our center means to desire life, joy, and well-being. One who centers on a friendship will find happiness; whatever pleasure one centers on will also bring happiness. In the same way, t Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Recollection of Study. of Contemplation. of Attention. Center.pdf As a science, recollection comes through a learning process, and through practice. It is a natural act and is done like any natural act. It consists in giving attention which is more or less sustained, on a thought, a truth. One can work on recollection. When it has the characteristic of study, then it is a recollection of study, and the mind works. If it is a discovered truth that we contemplate, then it is the attention of contemplation; the soul remains in the silence of contemplation. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Resurrection. We Must Rejoice with the Blessed Virgin.pdf Now, we focus on the Resurrection. You would not enter into the spirit of this feast if you wanted to weep and return to Calvary. If that were your particular grace, I would say nothing, but you would not be following the flow of Gods graces. Rejoice with the Church; you have found your lost treasure. There is great joy and happiness in recovering a treasure that had been lost (cf. Lk 15:6, 9, 24). Here is our Lord, our Friend, our Father, and our Spouse. Let us not lose him again. We mus Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Science of Love.pdf My Sisters, I think you understood clearly what I told you this morning2, and you made your meditation on the life of love. These are truths that dazzle us ordinarily when we hear them for the first time. We see their beauty but not their depth. These truths are not new in themselves, because they are as old as God. As they are new for us, we should not get discouraged if we don’t understand them at once and don’t grasp them fully. God does not enlighten us as he did Saint Paul. Even Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Spirit of Eucharistic Faith.pdf St. Paul said: The just lives by faith. (Rm 1:17). The spirit of faith inspires all his actions… […] To have the spirit of Eucharistic faith means to find joy in the service of the God of the Eucharist, to search for any occasion that gives honor and glory to Jesus Eucharistic. To live the Eucharistic spirit means, then, to make the Holy Eucharist the loving thought of our mind, the royal love of our heart, and the supreme good of our will. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Spirit of Love and Sacrifice.pdf Your rule says that you should have the spirit of love and sacrifice. Why do we always speak about sacrifice, come back to it? Isn’t there any true love without sacrifice? No, my dear Sisters, there is no true love without sacrifice, I mean for us who are journeying as exiles on earth. Heaven is the reward of the sacrifices of love on earth. In heaven, love will be rewarded according to our sacrifices. There is a greater glory for those who bore many sacrifices, little glory for little Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of Grace.pdf My Sisters, today we shall talk about the spirit that should move you and various other spirits. I will try to complete what I said about the attraction of grace, since I did not have time to finish. Right away, I am informing2 you that it is a difficult subject.[…] It is not something palpable and accessible to the senses. We shall examine the movements of the soul. I will not talk about the movements of the evil spirit – spare me that. I will not talk about them, since everyone knows Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Spirit of Sacrifice.pdf You must not run after sacrifices, as sacrifices in themselves. This would be like a servant who is unwilling to remain next to his master; worried and impatient, he prefers to go out and work for him, rather than remain with him. That’s what happens when we love our sacrifices as sacrifices, when we place our life in them, when we make them our center – preferring to work for God, rather than work with God. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Spirit of the Foundation.pdf My goal, in all that I do, is always to make you go alone to the Blessed Sacrament. You have a lot of need for direction, for priestly guidance, but as far as I am concerned, to be wise, I must imitate St. John the Baptist. He had disciples: and you, you are my disciples. The Good Lord gave me the grace to gather you. He instructed them and kept them for a long time. When the time came, he sent them all to2 our Lord (cf. Jn 3:26), and he disappeared (cf. Jn 3:30), like the stars do when th Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Spirit of the Society.pdf Let us explain the spirit of the Society.2 First, what is a spirit; what do we mean by spirit? Each person has her own personal spirit, distinguishing her from any other, her own way of seeing things, talking, and acting. This is what forms her character. A person with a good spirit will be gentle and charitable; if the contrary is true, she has a bad and terrible spirit. We judge a person by her spirit, the written letter brings death but the Spirit gives life. (cf. 2 Cor 3:6) Our good Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Spirit. Serving with Devotion and Abnegation.pdf My Sisters, I want to talk to you about the spirit. It’s important to continue on this topic of the spirit of love and sacrifice. The question is, When will I know that I have the spirit of the Society, the spirit of love and sacrifice? This is very important; can you know it by yourself? Of course, it’s easy to know if one is dead or alive. Life manifests itself. We give proof by acts of virtue, and by the spirit of love within us. The first proof is to fulfill our vocational dut Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Three Degrees of Love(Continuation).pdf Once again , Father chose to talk about the spirit of love. My Sisters, it is very important to form the spirit of love in yourselves. I already explained what it is to have the spirit of a thing and what rules to follow. An act of love is an isolated deed with its own reward. An act of holiness, of virtue, is more than that, because a habit is developing in the soul. When the soul has a dominant virtue, she acts by that virtue and it becomes a habit. A person who is kind on occasion h Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Three Degrees of Love.pdf What do we mean by the spirit of love? The word spirit means more than love. Love has three degrees: [First], an isolated act of love. This is a particular love, a natural attraction toward a person. The second degree, a preferential love. This is a dominating, sovereign love beyond all others, a love that triumphs over everything. It presupposes a battle, because we cannot dominate what we did not fight for; but it is not yet the end of our life. To have the spirit of a thing is Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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The Transfiguration.pdf Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration. In Rome this is a first class feast, feast of the patriarchal church of St. John Lateran, the Pope’s church. We have also celebrated this feast, full of very consoling truths. I will try to explain. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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Third Anniversary of the Foundation.pdf [Today is] the feast of St. Ignatius. The Good Lord permitted this anniversary to fall on the feast3 of such a great saint who used to say: All for the greater glory of God. This is how he began his order. There were nine at Montmartre, what is surprising is that these hidden underground passages have been left untouched since the time they were buried during the Revolution. Men change, things remain the same. This saint did so much good. His liturgical prayer says: Lord, you sanctified St Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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Three Kinds of Life.pdf There are three kinds of life. The first is the life of the senses, or the life of the passions. Many people live that kind of life – they are in the majority. In that kind of life, everything ends with pleasure: the miser earns money to enjoy himself; others desire honors in order to have wealth. This life of the senses is found throughout the world. This is what our Lord meant with the words: The gate is wide that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many and it le Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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Three Kinds of Peace.pdf […] My Sisters, there are three kinds of inner peace. There is peace of conscience, which you surely have. Peace of conscience consists in having nothing to accuse oneself of before God. I’m not talking about mortal sins, but about venial sins. This peace is a sign that all is well with God. It is not lost by the intrusion of the senses; nor from our evil nature which is not premeditated. These are mere odors from a dunghill – excuse the word. It does not disturb our peace if w Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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Three Kinds of Recollection.pdf My Sisters, there are three kinds of recollection. The first recollection, if I dare say it, is the most imperfect: it is recollection through conscience. Let me explain. Our conscience is like the mirror of God in us. Conscience discloses to us the law of God, tells us what is right and what is wrong. God inspires us through our conscience, giving us a sense of the holiness and truth of God, such that recollection is needed to know one’s duty. Then the law is within. This recollect Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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Three Obstacles that Prevent Us from Enjoying.pdf I said that many people don’t enjoy our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament, for three reasons. First, because they approach our Lord with their senses, limiting themselves to using only their senses. Since our senses cannot grasp the most Blessed Sacrament, since our Lord does not allow himself to be seen and touched, the result is that these people experience nothing. They think, and speak, and act only through their senses – they have a rather languid faith that proceeds well only wit Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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To Live with Jesus Christ.pdf You must honor our Lord, his interior and Eucharistic life; you must honor him by your life – and this includes three ideas. 1º You must live with Jesus Christ. In the Apocalypse, St. John says: On Mt. Zion, I saw the Lamb that was slain, and with him one hundred forty-four thousand virgins, singing the song of love, and who never leave the presence of the Lamb that was slain. (cf. Rv 14:1-4) You, too, are meant to live always with him: a servant lives with her master, a spouse with h Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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To Recollect Oneself in the Goodness of Our Lord.pdf Now, my Sisters, be recollected; develop the habit of recollection, of living in our Lord, as I told you, because as long as you have not done this, you will be useless. You will not enter into God, into his love; you will be affected by all the vicissitudes of the times. You will not be at peace, but on a troubled sea agitated by stormy winds. If you remain with our Lord, if you sit at his feet (cf. Lk 10:39), you will understand the depths of his truth, become instructed in his truth and lo Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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Vocation. The Hidden Eucharistic Life.pdf My Daughters, I see that the Good Lord is increasing your number. Surely, when the Good Lord acts in that way, he has plans of grace and mercy. What are they? Time will tell: “Where the body is, there also the eagles will gather”,2 said our Lord (cf. Lk 17:37). In the Church what is Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament? He is the body. Our Lord’s feast is called Feast of the Blessed Sacrament. The eagles are souls. The Blessed Sacrament is everything that is most needed for thes Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Begin Our Adoration Well.pdf In our last instruction, we mentioned how to make adoration when already in a moment of fervor; but in general the problem with our meditations, with our adorations, is the very beginning. If we begin well, the rest will follow. I know that human weakness can arise, but we continue the way we had begun. The essential thing is to begin our work well, energetically from the first. If we begin badly, in a lukewarm way, there is much to fear that we’ll have a hard time to return to where we Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Die to Everything with Our Lord.pdf My Sisters, you must live from the Eucharistic life of our Lord. What is that Eucharistic life? You must understand it well, because it must be the rule and end of your life. The Eucharistic life of our Lord is the form that his love chose to remain in our midst. Since that form is a form of annihilation, it is also what he wanted to teach us, so that we could always say: Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart (Mt 11:29). This annihilation of our Lord out of love required tha Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Give Our Lord Our Personality.pdf Let us place ourselves in the presence of our Lord by an act of faith, etc. […] My dear Daughters, in order to love our Lord, we must give ourselves to him as he gives himself to us: we must love him as he loves us. Do you know the greatest gift that we could make to the love of our Lord? Here it is: to give him our person, and forever – I will explain. To give our person to our Lord – there are very few persons who give our Lord their personality, even among religious; there are Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Give Ourselves to God for God and not for Ourselves.pdf Let us place ourselves in the presence of God, etc. Let us complete the meditation of last night. We said that we must consecrate to God our personality; that is, the self that commands. We must give him the self that is the center of external relations who receives praise and affection the self that i it o e. o out ti trut elpe ou to ee tat religious life still has something more perfect, namely, to give oneself to God for the sake of God, and not to give oneself to God for your se Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Go To God Out of Love.pdf Considering your duties and the sublime perfection required of Servants of the Most Blessed Sacrament and the frailty of your human nature, you may well wonder whether you can ever attain this perfection of the Servants of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Confronted with a lofty mountain that rises to the sky, you may ponder that since your pace is ever so slow you may also need wings. Let me teach you how to go forward, so that your experience will show you that I have told you the truth. It is Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Immerse Ourselves into the Love of Our Lord.pdf […] Once in a while, we need to renew our courage, to re-immerse ourselves into our resolution to belong solely to our Lord Jesus Christ in the most Blessed Sacrament. A regular life easily leads to routine, I might even say to laziness. We get used to even the holiest things, to the point that they become mechanical and natural. We really must re-immerse ourselves into the grace of our vocation, in order to be ever fresh and enter into it more perfectly. We need to evaluate ourselves Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Leave Ourselves to Enter into Our Lord.pdf My Sisters, in the last conference2 we were saying that the first work of grace is self-detachment. If we review our life, we see that the Good Lord is always working to free us by detaching us, distancing us either from sources of temptation, or occasions [that drain our] affection. Why? In order to fill us – that’s clear. Our Lord disengages us from the world and from ourselves, in order to fill us, to take over our hearts, to become truly our life. In this way, my good Sisters, Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Live in the Love of Our Lord.pdf Let us reflect on the consequences of last night’s meditation. Love called you and is nourishing you. The conclusion is this: if love had not called you, there would be no union [between you and our Lord]. Where there is no love there is no union. The greater the love on both sides, the deeper the union will be. Love our Lord then, and let love be your universal and only life. St. Augustine used to say, Love, and do what you will. How then should you love? As Jesus loved you, answer Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Not Dwell in Ourselves.pdf 1861 […] My poor Daughters, dwell truly in the Good Lord, and don’t dwell in yourselves. There is a saying that we should keep to ourselves. In one sense it is good to be quiet in one’s own home, that’s only natural. But I tell you, in the order of grace don’t dwell in yourselves; you will not be comfortable. The Good Lord did not make us dwell in our own thoughts, in the affections of our own hearts, in preoccupations over our bodies, in our small possessions. The Good Lord di Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Not Dwell in Sacrifices.pdf […] We have spoken about sacrifice – now we must complete this idea. You will have sacrifices to offer every day, because this is the nourishment of love. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Must Serve God According to Our State.pdf My Sisters, let us develop a truth that is at once important and difficult. It is my hope that the Good Lord will enlighten you about it. We must serve God according to our internal and external state. This is necessary because it is the certain expression of God’s will when we are in a transitional state, and then especially when he places us in a permanent state [of soul]. It is a proof that he wants that state for us and how it affects us at that time. Desiring to serve God outside of Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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We Should Start With Love.pdf Imagine perfection on a high mountain. A Christian is told, you have to climb the mountain of God. There are difficulties and sacrifices as we climb; we slip and fall. There are so many difficulties on the way to perfection! Another one says, this is too long; I will succeed only at the end of my life. Instead, he uses wings and flies. The first one walks, exercising virtues, working out perfection to the smallest detail. This is long, very long, walking slowly and reaching perfection onl Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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What Is the Society and What We Owe It.pdf There will be no spiritual direction on the day of the retreat; it is too short and wrong timing. You cannot talk about your retreat in direction, since it is not finished. On that day, the professed should meet their superior, and the novices, their novice mistress, for guidance. I will see you the following day. Then you can report on all that was said to you, and what we dealt with. Then I will give you direction. Come in the morning, the best time, but don’t come all together as you Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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Why Our Lord Suffered.pdf Today, the Church celebrates the feast of the five wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ. All the Fridays of Lent are dedicated to celebrate an aspect of the Passion. In this way, the Church divides the mysteries of the Passion, so that we can better appreciate them, calling them to mind one at a time. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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Works of Zeal.pdf I recommend to your prayers the baptism of a Jewish lady that will take place on Thursday at eight o’clock. She is well prepared. Since we cannot prepare her by means of confession; we prepare her only with the Word of God. She cannot receive absolution, since she is not baptized, and since baptism takes away all sins. It seems that she really loves our Lord Jesus Christ and understands him a little. She has to make many big sacrifices. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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You Come from God. The Work of Adoration is Everything.pdf A virtue is recognized by its strength; through practice, it gains strength. Since we humans are limited, we take time to rest. God limited us to show us that we are weak in ourselves. The spiritual life is the same. This life of grace and love gains strength through practice; it also has need of strength and rest. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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You Come from God.pdf We must thank the Good Lord for sending servants, we must thank the heavenly Father for sending adorers for his divine Son. The heavenly Father calls them, and Jesus Christ receives them: No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. (cf. Jn 6:44) Quite evidently, the Father must be the one to form a court for his divine Son. What is surprising is that the vocations that we were expecting and hoping for do not come; if they do come, they bring us headaches. The Good Lord Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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