“St. Teresa informs her untrained sisters of this image in the simplest way: ‘Let us regard our souls as a castle,’ she writes, ‘which is made wholly of a single diamond or a pure crystal and in which there are many mansions. Indeed, my sisters, thinking over this, the soul is nothing else than a …
Today, May 24, is the memorial of Blessed Isidore Ngei Ko Lat and Blessed Mario Vergara. Isidore was born in Myanmar in 1918 to farmers. As a child, Isidore already wanted to serve God. When World War II broke out, he served as a catechist in his village and put up a little school for …
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Jesus said to his disciples:“Now I am going to the one who sent me,and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go.For if I do not go, the Advocate will …
“In her diamond castle of the soul, St. Teresa places the sun as a source of light in the inmost mansion and has it shoot its rays to the numberless neighboring mansions. In the most external the solar rays pierce only dimly because all sorts of hindrances restrain that radiation. But that light shining out …
Jesus said to his disciples:“When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father,the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father,he will testify to me.And you also testify,because you have been with me from the beginning. “I have told you this so that you may not fall away.They will expel you from …
“Here also there is a marvelous harmony between nature and supernature, between the life of grace and the mystic, superabundant influx of grace. God, so to say, enlarges His creature and raises it to its highest perfection. There is such a gradual development that it should not be too arduous for nature; but at the …
Jesus said to his disciples:“Whoever loves me will keep my word,and my Father will love him,and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.Whoever does not love me does not keep my words;yet the word you hear is not minebut that of the Father who sent me. “I have told you this …
“So the mystical life is a methodical way, an accommodation of the faculties of the soul to the object of knowledge and love. Because God, Who gives happiness and joy, is the highest and most satisfying object of that knowledge and love, so in the method of love, He must rank first. That God must …
Today, May 21, is the memorial of Saint Eugene de Mazenod. Founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI). Eugene was born in France in 1782 to a well-to-do family. However, when the French Revolution broke out, his family was forced to leave their wealth behind as they had to escape to Italy. Years later, …
Jesus said to his disciples:“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own;but because you do not belong to the world,and I have chosen you out of the world,the world hates you.Remember the word I spoke to you,‘No slave is greater than …