Author: Sr. Dorcee, beloved
I am the one whom Jesus loves.
The least understood
December 11, 2001
Blue Journal
“Jesus chooses for each person the type of suffering which He sees is most suited to sanctify that person, and often the cross which He imposes is the one which, accepting all the others, one would have refused if one had dared. The one He gives is that which one understands the least.” (Charles de Foucauld)
My Own Heart
My Own Heart
My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
I cast for comfort I can no more get
By groping round my comfortless, than blind
Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find
Thirst’s all-in-all in all a world of wet.
Soul, self; come, poor Jackself, I do advise
You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile
Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room; let joy size
At God knows when to God knows what; whose smile
‘s not wrung, see you; unforeseen times rather—as skies
Betweenpie mountains—lights a lovely mile.
Abundant cause for gratitude
June 6, 2001
Blue Journal
“And if you have nothing more to thank God for than that He bears with you and spares you and waits for you and is so utterly forbearing about all your unruly ways, which never give Him a chance to achieve all His great designs in you, surely in this alone, you have abundant cause for gratitude.” (John Tauler)
Faith
April 25, 2001
Blue Journal
“Faith is the acknowledgement of one’s own helplessness and the awaiting of everything from God.” (Fr. Tadeusz Dajczer)
The most common word for worship
April 7, 2001
The Blue Journal
“The most common word for worship in the New Testament comes sixty-six times. It could be translated ‘I come toward to kiss.'” (David Watson)
Nothing that you do
February 8, 2001
The Blue Journal
“Nothing that you do or can do pleases me as much as when you believe that I love you.” (St. Catherine of Siena)
More for the Church
December 22, 2000
Blue Journal
“The soul immolated to God in the nudity of pure faith, of hope and perfect union does more for the Church in an hour than others (more mediocre and less generous) do in their whole life.” (Bl. Columba Marmion)
Be very true with God
December 22, 2000
Blue Journal
“Be very true with God, and as soon as you let yourself be drawn away to any fault or unfaithfulness (which will happen from time to time) look your Heavenly Father in the face, and show Him your soul in the bare truth.” (Bl Columba Marmion)
Close your eyes
December 22, 2000
Blue Journal
“You will seem to yourself at times to have almost lost your faith and yet it remains whole and entire in the fine point of your soul, all gathered up into so sharp and imperceptible a point that it seems no longer to exist. Close your eyes and remain with Jesus, saying a loving Amen to all He is gazing at in His Father.” (Bl. Columba Marmion)
Witnesses to Hope 