Tuesday, June 3 : Blessed Columba Marmion

It is said that in Heaven we shall be like to God, ” because we shall see Him as He is “. Immediately the blessed soul sees God, it is identified with Him in the intellect by truth, and in the will by love. In the measure possible, the soul is, — not equal evidently, — but like to God : the Beatific Vision works this transformation, rendering the soul like to God, to such a degree that it is united to Him in unity. Now, during this life, what is the prelude to the vision that the elect enjoy ? Prayer through faith. The soul by contemplating God, through faith, in prayer, sees His perfections in all truth, it surrenders itself to this truth ; and thus beholding in God the Sovereign and Unique Good, its will is united to this Divine will, fount of all beatitude for the soul; and the more powerful this adherence is, the more the soul is united to God. This is why prayer in faith is so precious for the soul. We ought to wish to reach a high degree in this prayer, that is to sav to attain to this union full of love and simplicity which results in an outpouring of the most pure Divine light Under the ordinary conditions of His providence, God does not give Himself to the soul with this plenitude until the evening of life, when the soul has proved, by it’s constant fidelity to the inspirations of grace, that it belongs wholly to God, and in all things seeks but Him alone. We ought to tend to this blessed state, to which many religious souls are most certainly called. Happy state wherein the soul that is ll for God finds the prelude to that eternal union of endless beatitude.

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