CALENDARIUM ROMANUM FORMA ORDINARIA

God is perfect in every sense. It is impossible to find in him something that is not infinitely good. He is wise, prudent, faithful, good, liberal, beautiful, gentle, not despising anything that he created, making cases of us, governing us with gentleness, and even with respect, patient, free from all movements deregulated by passions; He is everything that we love in creatures; Everything is brought together in him, and forever, and in an infinitely more perfect way. It has none of the faults that shock us, which put us off, which disgust us with created objects. How is it then that we not love Him alone? (…) God is not only perfect, but still he is the source of all perfection. It is only in Him from which we can obtain this; by studying it, considering it: “We will be like him, because we will see Him as He is” (1 Jn 3,2). It will be in heaven, and, in this life, we will approach as much this likeness as we will consider Him more. (…) Jesus, as much as I can, I want to accord myself to your examples and to your maxims, which alone can lead me to you and out of ignorance, and the errors where my passions could rush to me.

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The soul awaiting the coming of the Lord : I do not know, O Lord, at what hour you will come. And so I keep constant watch and listen As your chosen bride. Knowing that you like to come unexpected. Yet a pure heart will sense you from afar, O Lord. I wait for you, Lord, in calm and silence, With great longing in my heart And with invincible desire. I feel that my love for you is changing into fire, And that it will rise up to heaven like a flame at life’s end, And then all my wishes will be fulfilled. Come then at last, my most sweet Lord And take my thirsting heart There, to your home in the lofty regions of heaven, Where your eternal life reigns everlasting. Life on this earth is but an agony Since my heart feels it is created for the heights. The lowlands of this life hold no interest for it For my homeland is in heaven – this I firmly believe.

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O brilliant gem, which shines forth from the clear brightness of the sun! Source gushing from the father’s heart! His only son by whom he created the matter of the world that one day man would stain. This eternal Word, the Father made it, through you, a man. You are therefore the crystalline matter in which the Word brings out all its virtues, As he brought forth all his creatures from this original matter. Very suave branch from Jesse’s root, how great your power is! Yes, even the divinity contemplated it in its splendid child, And as the eagle penetrates its gaze even to the sun, The Celestial Father noticed from afar the brilliance of the Virgin. He wanted his son to be embodied in her. Then mystically, the spirit of the Virgin was lit by the divine mystery, And a resplendent flower, oh marvel, flourished in her.

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