Wednesday, January 17, 2007

"Now this is eternal life:"

"Now this is eternal life:
that they may know Thee, the only true God
" (Jn 17:3)

O Jesus, it is certainly deplorable that the world is not interested in knowing You and Your Father; but the offense would be beyond imagination if a soul consecrated to You should act in this way, or should be satisfied to know You only superficially!

O Lord, reveal Yourself to my soul, because I want to know You in order to love You, to serve You and to regulate my life according to Your wishes. "O God, when a woman in the world is about to marry, she knows beforehand whom she is to marry, what sort of a person he is and what property he posesses. Shall not we, then, who are already betrothed, think about our Spouse...who is His Father, what is the country to which He will take us, what are the riches with which He promises to endow us, what we can do to give Him pleasure, and how we can conform our character to His? O my Spouse, must we, then, make less account of You than is made of men?" (Teresa of Avila, Way of Perfection, 22")


Todays reading from DIVINE INTIMACY, Fr Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene O.C.D., #52

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