Note to God

Consider using the liturgical words in your prayer - psalm - sequence - biblical  Consider to say slowly, intently, know who you are saying it for. If not, u are babbling 

1. Live interior silence 2. Live patience 3. Worship - learn how to worship God - he's the alpha and omega  - he's God. I am not. - hope in the Lord 

Consequently, if we were to view works, considered in themselves, as an obstacle to sanctification, and assert that, although springing from the Divine Will, they necessarily slow down our advance towards perfection, it would be an insult, a blasphemy against the Wisdom and Goodness and Providence of God. Hence, the following dilemma is inescapable: either the apostolate, no matter what form it takes, if it is God’s will, not only does not bring about in itself as its effect any alteration in the atmosphere of solid virtue which ought to surround a soul that has a care for salvation and for spiritual progress, but it must also, and always, provide the apostle with a means of sanctification, so long as his apostolic work keeps within the due conditions. Or else the person whom God has chosen to work with Him, and who is therefore obliged to answer the divine call, will have every right to offer the activity, the troubles and cares undergone for the sake of the work commanded by Him, as ...

Are we persevering in our virtue or progressing in it? let us clearly define in what this progress consists. A paradox of the prudent and spiritual St. Theresa will help us to make our meaning clear: “Since I have been prioress, burdened with many duties and obliged to travel a great deal, I commit very many more faults. And yet, as I struggle generously and spend myself for God alone, I feel that I am getting closer and closer to Him.” Her weakness shows itself much more than it did in the peace and quiet of the cloister. The saint is aware of this, but does not let it cause her any worry. The completely supernatural generosity of her devotion to duty and her greatly increased efforts in the spiritual combat make up for everything by providing an opportunity for victories which largely outweigh the surprise faults of a weakness that was always there, but formerly only in a latent state. Our union with God, says St. John of the Cross, resides in the union of our will with His, and is m...

Are we persevering in our virtue or progressing in it?

St. Bernard’s saying, to apostles: “If you are wise, you will be reservoirs and not channels.” Si sapis, concham te exhibebis et non canalem? (Serm. xviii in Cant.) The channels let the water flow away, and do not retain a drop. But the reservoir is first filled, and then, without emptying itself, pours out its overflow, which is ever renewed, over the fields which it waters. How many there are devoted to works, who are never anything but channels, and retain nothing for themselves, but remain dry 

Active life has a threefold defect: sollicita es8 (thou art careful), it is worried with mental problems, sollicitudines in cogitatu; turbaris (thou art troubled), and here are the troubles that stir up the passions, turbationes in affectu; finally, erga plurima (about many things), occupations are multiplied, and so our energy and our action is divided: divisiones in actu. But for the interior life one thing alone is necessary: union with God. Porro unum est necessarium. All the rest can only be secondary, something accomplished solely by virtue of this union and in order to strengthen it more and more.

Active life has a threefold defect: sollicita es8 (thou art careful), it is worried with mental problems, sollicitudines in cogitatu; turbaris (thou art troubled), and here are the troubles that stir up the passions, turbationes in affectu; finally, erga plurima (about many things), occupations are multiplied, and so our energy and our action is divided: divisiones in actu. But for the interior life one thing alone is necessary: union with God. Porro unum est necessarium. All the rest can only be secondary, something accomplished solely by virtue of this union and in order to strengthen it more and more.

Thus I can define it as the state of activity of a soul which strives against its natural inclinations in order to REGULATE them, and endeavors to acquire the HABIT of judging and directing its movements IN ALL THINGS according to the light of the Gospel and the example of Our Lord.

When we do apostolic work   He uses this expression to stigmatize the apostle who so far forgets himself as to overlook his secondary and subordinate role, and look only to his own personal activity and talents as a basic for apostolic success. Is this not, in practice, a denial of a great part of the Tract on Grace? This conclusion is one that appalls us, at first sight. And yet a little thought will show us that it is only too true.

Buildings, newspapers, meetings, conventions, all these things were important, vitally important. But they were not the one essential thing. And those who had become entirely absorbed in this work of more or less material growth, seemed to have lost sight of the fact that the Church is built of living stones. It is built of saints . And saints are made only by the grace of God and the infused virtues and the gifts of the Holy Ghost, not by speeches and publicity, which are doom to sterility without prayer and mortification.