Friday, October 23 : Jean-Pierre de Caussade

How is it that although continually warned that everything that happens in the world is but a shadow, a figure, a mystery of faith, we look at the outside only and do not perceive the enigma they contain? We fall into this trap like men without sense instead of raising our eyes to the principle, source and origin of all things, in which they all have their right name and just proportions, in which everything is supernatural, divine, and sanctifying; in which all is part of the plenitude of Jesus Christ, and each circumstance is as a stone towards the construction of the heavenly Jerusalem, and all helps to build a dwelling for us in that marvellous city. Faith is the light of times. By faith the veil is torn aside to reveal the eternal truth. When a soul has received this understanding of faith, God speaks to it through all creatures; the universe is, for that soul, a living scripture that the finger of God ceaselessly traces before its eyes. The history of every passing moment is a sacred history; the Holy Books dictated by the Spirit of God are, to it, merely the beginning of divine instruction. All that happens—and is not written down—is, for it, the continuation of the Scripture. What is written is the commentary on what is not. Faith judges the one by the other.

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