Monday, September 21 : John Tauler

Our Lord told Saint Matthew: “Follow me.” This lovable saint is a model for everyone. He was first of all a great sinner, as the Gospel says, and later, he became one of the great ones among all God’s friends. For Our Lord spoke to him in the depths of his being and then he left everything in order to follow the Master. To follow God in truth – that is everything; and in order to do that, it is necessary truly and completely to leave all that is not God, whatever it might be. God is a lover of hearts. He is not interested in what is external; rather, he wants us to give him a living, interior devotedness. That devotedness has in itself more truth than if I said prayers so as to fill the whole world or sang so loud that my song rose up to the highest heaven; it has more truth than anything I might do externally by fasting, vigils and other practices.

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