Writings of St. Peter Julian Eymard
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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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