Friday, January 28 : Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus

Certainly, we cannot ask of divine grace to reveal all its potentialities during the period of growth. The seed that dies, the delicate shoot that comes up, do not tell exactly what they bear within them. Every germination and all growth take place in darkness or at least in mystery. Only the full flowering shows forth the properties of the life and the quality of the fruit. So too, after the periods of obscurity that have hidden from us some of its properties, grace, in the transforming union, is to reveal its essential riches, showing us that it is working a transformation by a likeness of love to Christ Jesus. The exterior revelation of Christ in souls will take different forms. The grace of Christ is actually multiform and shines out in diverse reflections; but transformation in Him must be real and deep. It must be attested to by the likeness that love creates in the will, thoughts, sentiments, and external activity. (…) Divinization of human nature that we may be the children of God; incarnation of the divine life that we may be Christians – such is the twofold realism we must find in transforming union if it be genuine and authentically Christian.

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