Friday, June 19 : Blessed Columba Marmion

The intensity of our faith should animate our least actions. If we apply ourselves to this, our life will be full of light and joy. The tiniest details of the day will appear to us as precious pearls which we want to gain, that with them we may compose our heavenly treasure. And in the measure that we advance in faith, in the measure that it becomes firmer, more ardent, more active, joy will more and more superabound in our souls. Light is added to light, hope, beholding its horizons widening, is strengthened day by day ; love, feeling itself more ardent, makes everything easy; we run in the path of the Lord’s commands. In Heaven the source of our joy will be the certain, perfect and inamissible possession of sovereign and immutable good, in the full light of glory ; here below, the source of our joy is the possession, already begun, of God, the anticipated union with God : this possession, this union is so much the more intimate the more we are bathed in the light of faith. The joy that faith gains for us is necessary here upon earth. God Himself fashioned our hearts, and He has fashioned them in such a way that they have need of gladness.
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