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A Spiritual Journey . . .

2/3/2013

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What it means to "offer it up" - And for those who wish to do the will of God in their lives - 


The Eternal Truth spoke to St. Catherine of Siena: "You ask me for suffering to atone for the offenses my creatures commit against me.  And you ask for the will to know and love me, supreme Truth.  Here is the way, if you would come to perfect knowledge and enjoyment of me, eternal Life:  Never leave the knowledge of yourself.  Then, put down as you are in the valley of humility you will know me in yourself, and from this knowledge you will draw all that you need. 


"No virtue can have life in it except from charity, and charity is nursed and mothered by humility.  You will find humility in the knowledge of yourself when you see that even your own existence comes not from yourself but from me, for I loved you before you came into being.  And in my unspeakable love for you I willed to create you anew in grace.  So I washed you and made you a new creation in the blood that my only-begotten Son poured out with such burning love.


"This blood gives you knowledge of the truth when knowledge of yourself leads you to shed the cloud of selfish love.  There is no other way to know the truth.  In so knowing me the soul catches fire with unspeakable love, which in turn brings continual pain.  Indeed, because she has known my truth as well as her own sin and her neighbors' ingratitude and blindness, the soul suffers intolerably.  Still, this is not a pain that troubles or shrivels up the soul.  On the contrary, it makes her grow fat.  For she suffers because she loves me, nor would she suffer if she did not love me.

"Thus, as soon as you and my other servants come in this way to know my truth you will, for the glory and praise of my name, have to endure great trials, insults, adn reproaches in word and in deed, even to the point of death.


"Behave, then, with true patience, with sorrow for sin and love of virtue, for the glory and praise of my name.  If you do, I shall be appeased for your sins and those of my other servants.  The sufferings you endure will, through the power of charity, suffice to win both atonement and reward for you and for others.


"For you will win the fruit of life:  The stains of your foolishness will be blotted out, and I will no longer remember that you had ever offended me.  As for others, because of your loving charity I will pardon them in proportion to their receptiveness."
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