Friday, June 12 : Saint Claude la Colombière

[The divine Heart is] always burning with love for men, always open to pour out on them all kinds of graces and blessings, always touched by our ills, always eager to share with us its treasures and to give itself to us, always ready to receive us and serve us as an refuge, a home, a paradise from this life onwards. For all this, he finds in the hearts of men only hardness, only forgetfulness, only contempt, only ingratitude: He loves, and He is not loved, and we do not even know his love, because we do not deign to receive the gifts by which He would like to testify to it, nor listen to the tender and secret declarations that He would like to make to our hearts. (…) Sacred Heart of Jesus, teach me the perfect forgetting of myself, since this is the only way by which we can enter you. Since everything I do in the future will be yours, make sure that I do nothing that is not worthy of you. Teach me what I must do to achieve the purity of your love, for which you have inspired me to desire. I feel within myself a great desire to please you and a great impotence to overcome it without great light and very particular help that I can only expect from you. Do your will in me, Lord; I am opposed to it, I feel it; but I would like, it seems to me, not to oppose it. It is up to you to do everything, divine Heart of Jesus Christ; you alone will have all the glory of my sanctification, if I make myself holy; it seems clearer than day to me; but it will be a great glory for you, and it is for this only that I want to desire perfection. So be it.

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