A blessing on the man who puts his trust in the Lord, with the Lord for his hope. He is like a tree by the waterside that thrusts its roots to the stream: when the heat comes it feels no alarm, its foliage stays green; it has no worries in a year of drought, and never ceases to bear fruit.
The morning light precedes the sun, and the precursor of all humility is meekness. Therefore, let us hear in what order the Light arranges these virtues, for He says: Learn of Me, for I am meek and humble in heart. So then, before looking at the sun, we must be illumined by the light, and then we can look with a clear gaze upon the sun before we have experienced that light, as the true order of the aforementioned virtues teaches us.
“Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear.”
“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realised the new wonder; but even they hardly realised that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn.”
“For the language of God has this characteristic that, since it is very intimate and spiritual in its relations with the soul, it transcends every sense and at once makes all harmony and capacity of the outward and inward senses to cease and be dumb.” — St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul (via eternal-echoes)
FOR ALL IS THE HEART OF JESUS OPEN Resting Place in the Wild The Heart of Jesus is a place of peace for the poor wanderer through this life. L. Turgis 589
“But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:/ The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;/ they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lam 3:21-23
“But You have disposed all things by measure and number and weight.” “sed omnia in mensura, et numero et pondere disposuisti.” - The Book of Wisdom, 11:20(21 Vulgata)