Thursday, May 26 : Saint Charles de Foucauld

God goes up with songs of joy ! The Lord arose with trumpet blast ! (…) Sing praise to our God, sing praise ! Sing praise to our King, sing praise !” (Ps 46[47]:6-7 LXX) (…) The last verses of this psalm apply to joy in the glory of God, in general, and to the Ascension of our Lord in particular: “God ascends with shouts of joy” (…) May this firm foundation be there on earth and in heaven, immovable with our joy: the happiness that God is God and the delight that our Lord “has risen and will never die again” (Rm 6:9) but is eternally happy ! Thank you, my God, for giving us this unquenchable source of joy, for setting it down in your holy books, the holy liturgy, and for pouring it into our hearts by your grace by making us understand and taste this blessed truth ! How good you are by making us understand by this, even in this world, how to share the happiness of the blessed in heaven according to the measure of our love ! (…) On earth there are shadows, but may this vision of peace and infinite happiness place a foundation of peace and unchanging happiness in our souls that nothing can take away, for its foundation is eternal. Let sadness come as it must come, Jesus experienced it; but may it only remain at the surface of our souls, may their depths remain unmovably serene like the depth of Jesus’s soul, always united to the Father, always in possession of the beatific vision. We do not have this vision, far from it ! But we have it like the dawn, like the sunrise.
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