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Dear William,
Thank you, our best Reader.
My perceptions are striving in the addled brain, and wakened up in your fresh viewing.
It is the grace of pausing, lighting and spotlighting.
It is the grace of pausing, lighting and spotlighting.
Praise the gifts of the word.
Yours ....
Donald.
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William...
To: Donald...
Sent: Sunday, 8 July 2012, 9:28
Subject: Fw: Gabrielle Bossis... St John of the Cross
From: William...
To: Donald...
Sent: Sunday, 8 July 2012, 9:28
Subject: Fw: Gabrielle Bossis... St John of the Cross
Dear Father Donald,
There is a wonderful glimpse of the relationship of St John of the Cross with Our Lord on today's DGO, written in a way that carried my thoughts to your extracts from Bossis:
Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591), Carmelite, Doctor of the Church - Living Flame of Love, st. 3, 6 (©Institute of Carmelite Studies)
When one loves and does good to another, he loves and does good to him in the measure of his own nature and properties. Thus your Bridegroom, dwelling within you, grants you favors according to his nature. Since he is omnipotent, he omnipotently loves and does good to you...
He makes you his equal, gladly revealing himself to you in these ways of knowledge, in this his countenance filled with graces, and telling you in this his union, not without great rejoicing: "I am yours and for you and delighted to be what I am so as to be yours and give myself to you." Who, then, will be able to express your experience, O happy soul, since you know that you are so loved and with such esteem exalted?
Quietly reflecting on such wonderful relationships,
Quietly reflecting on such wonderful relationships,
with my love in Our Lord,
William
Saturday,
07 July 2012
Saturday of the
Thirteenth week in Ordinary Time
Saint Matthew 9:14-17.
The disciples of John approached Jesus
and said, «Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not
fast?»
Jesus answered them, "Can the
wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come
when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.. . . .
See commentary below
or click here
Saint John of the Cross : "The bridegroom is with them"
Saint John of the Cross : "The bridegroom is with them"
Saint John of the
Cross (1542-1591), Carmelite, Doctor of the Church. Living Flame of Love, st.
3, 6 (©Institute of Carmelite Studies)
"The bridegroom is with them"
When one loves and does good to
another, he loves and does good to him in the measure of his own nature and
properties. Thus your Bridegroom, dwelling within you, grants you favors
according to his nature. Since he is omnipotent, he omnipotently loves and does
good to you.
Since he is wise, you feel that he
loves and does good to you with wisdom; since he is infinitely good, you feel
that he loves you with goodness; since he is holy, you feel that with holiness
he loves and favors you; since he is just, you feel that in justice he loves
and favors you; since he is merciful, mild, and clement, you feel
his mercy, mildness, and clemency; since he is a strong, sublime, and delicate
being, you feel that his love for you is strong, sublime, and delicate; since
he is pure and undefiled, you feel that he loves you in a pure and undefiled
way; since he is truth, you feel that he loves you in truthfulness; since he is
liberal, you feel that he liberally loves and favors you, without any personal
profit, only in order to do good to you; since he is the virtue of supreme
humility, he loves you with supreme humility and esteem.
He makes you his equal, gladly
revealing himself to you in these ways of knowledge, in this his countenance
filled with graces, and telling you in this his union, not without great
rejoicing: "I am yours and for you and delighted to be what I am so as to
be yours and give myself to you." Who, then, will be able to
express your experience, O happy soul, since you know that you are so loved and
with such esteem exalted?
