“In a sermon on Sunday ‘Gaudete’, the third Sunday of Advent, (the English Carmelite Henry de Hanna) discusses, guided by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, to whom St. John also likes to appeal a lot, six ways along which the soul can climb up to the summit of its perfection. One of those ways is that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit work in the soul with the glorious consequence that God is born in the soul and (that) He reveals Himself in it in a new manner in a divine Light. That birth of God is then further portrayed as the fruit of the Holy Spirit, while it is also called a Light. He returns to this image later on. God has given us in his Son his Light. This light leads and drives us and in this Light we walk from clarity to clarity. That Light recreates us and makes us radiate in divine Light. The air, in which the sunray shines, no longer appears (as) air, but only (as) a ray of the sun. Thus, also the soul then sees itself only in the divine Light that radiates in it. And that Light shines through it, and all see revealed in it the divine Light.”
Bl. Titus Brandsma
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