“It seems to me that I have found my Heaven on earth, since Heaven is God, and God is in my soul. The day I understood that, everything became clear to me. I would like to whisper this secret to those I love so they too might always cling to God through everything.”
— Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity
Lord of a heavenly communion,
who seeks to take us on high and bring heaven to earth,
to commune with us, to be counted as real,
thank You that You are there,
whether we feel You in our soul or not.
Thank You for those times of Presence,
God of reality and clarity.
May there be opportunity to know Your peace
and to extrapolate Your peace upon those we love.
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“Seek by reading and you will find by meditating; cry in prayer and the door will be opened in contemplation.”
— Saint John of the Cross
God of sorrow who meets us there by our contemplation,
thank You for Your divine intercession,
for a holy and heavenly compensation,
that by suffering we can know You more intimately.
Grace us, Caring Comforter, for the period of our depression,
with a courage for honesty that lets tears flow as they will.
Bring cheer to the soul for the requiem of sobs,
That by faithful surrender You will rebuild the countenance.
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“I pray you: seek more to embody God than to merely have knowledge of God. For knowledge can deceive us with pride, but a meek, loving awareness will not deceive. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up (1 Corinthians 8:1). Knowledge leads to travail, whereas awareness leads to rest.”
— The Book of Privy Counselling
Oh sweet and freshening wind of God,
Spirit of life, come blow in to the rooms of my soul,
Your love so divine, my ear to recline,
Your heart beating with mine to inspire me.
Relinquish the facts, feel the reaches of Your Presence,
spurn opinion that further hardens the heart and hearts upon hearing,
and give rise to the season of healing for unknowing,
to know beyond knowledge a knowledge beyond knowledge.
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“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”
— Meister Eckhart
O Lord, that in sweetly terrible consolations we might truly know You,
that You might finally shine upon our hearts as a real Person,
so that we might know a knowing beyond all knowing,
and that for darkness the light in all resplendence has shone in.
God of comfort, Who comforts us
with a comfort we can comfort others with,
we thank You for the reality of such comfort,
that in being our possession is soon to be
others’ possession by the ministry of Your Word.
AMEN.
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