Thursday, May 9 : Saint Charles de Foucauld

“Rise up, O everlasting gates: let the King of glory enter! (…) Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord, God of the universe; he is the king of glory” (Ps 23:7.10). These verses apply marvelously to the Ascension of Our Lord received into heaven by the choirs of angels… How good you are, my God, to console us for the sadness of the earth by the sight of your happiness… As a first duty you command us to love you… And if we fulfill this duty, it follows immediately and necessarily that we are from this world, throughout our lives, wonderfully, infinitely happy. We already share in a way the happiness of the elected, since like them we enjoy what makes them happy, like them we are happy because we know you are happy… In truth we do not see it clearly for them, but we do. we undoubtedly know (…). When we are sad, afflicted by the sins of others or our own, by the physical or moral suffering of our neighbor or our own, when we feel discouragement coming, let us lift up our hearts, think that whatever happens to us in this world and in other, whatever happens to the whole world, our beloved is Jesus and Jesus is blessed: he ascended into heaven, seated at the right hand of his Father and happy for eternity… When we love, if the beloved is happy, nothing is missing… our everything is happy, that’s all we need (…). If we love him, let us look at him and thank him endlessly like the angels and like the Church at the sight of his glory: “We give you thanks for your immense glory” (…). Deign, my God, by your great mercy, to make the sight of your happiness our support here below and our eternal happiness! Amen.

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