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)
Holy abandonment
December 21, 2000
Blue Journal
“It is above all on days of weariness, sickness, impatience, temptation, spiritual dryness, and trials, during hours of sometimes terrible anguish which press upon a soul, that holy abandonment is most pleasing to God.” (Blessed Columba Marmion)
If you desire
Blue Journal December 17, 2000
“If you desire to know how these things come about, ask grace, not instruction; desire, not understanding; the groaning of prayer, not diligent reading; the Spouse, not the teacher; God, not man; darkness, not clarity, not light, but the fire that totally inflames and carries us into God by ecstatic unctions and burning affections.” (St. Bonaventure)
“Into your hands . . .”
Blue Journal December 14, 2000
“What pure praise of the Father is love; to feel abandoned and yet stay content before him, saying: ‘Father, into your hands . . .'” (Sr. Wendy Beckett)
Lodged in His Heart
I’m getting ready to leave town tomorrow, and I almost forgot to post today! I can’t help re-posting my favorite picture portraying Jesus and His Sacred Heart, done by James Tissot.
We are all in the Heart of Jesus Christ, since He loves us all, for the way of love is for the lover to lodge the beloved in his heart. (Fr. Timothée de Raynier)
What steals Christ’s Heart
December 8, 2000
Our Lord once said to St. Gertrude: “The firm confidence a person has in Me, believing that I truly can help him at all times and desire to do so, steals My Heart and does such violence to Me, that I cannot but favor such a soul because of the great pleasure I experience in seeing it so dependent upon Me and in order to satisfy the great love I have for it.”
Making good of all wrongs
December 6, 2000
“. . . our blessed Lord . . . showing me that the greatest wrong ever done was Adam’s sin . . . The meaning of our blessed Lord was this, ‘Since I have now made the greatest wrong good, I want you to know by this that I shall make good all wrongs of whatever degree.'” (Julian of Norwich)
The soul of the wounded
November 29, 2000
“‘The soul of the wounded calleth for help, and God does not regard it as foolish.’ Whatever the wounding be, however trivial it may appear, so that the soul would be ashamed to tell its inward distress, from whatever side the wind of unstableness blows, the soul of the wounded may call for help, and God will not regard it as foolish.” (Amy Carmichael)
