Tuesday, October 3 : Venerable Madeleine Delbrêl

Where we follow Jesus Christ, we glorify God by calling him God, but at the same time, it is inevitable, we call in him everyone. To this call, it may be that none will answer … never. We could experience a sense of failure. But, for whoever is God’s worker, all his tasks may seem to fail, the work that encompasses these tasks does not fail, because it is the work of God: no failure is possible for God. What does belong to us that can not fail is the cross, in which we “complete the sufferings of Christ”, according to St Paul. It is a question of loving; But not as an artist, without error, without defect: it is necessary to “love the Lord with all your force” (cf. LC 10,27). After “all our force”, we may be collapsed, defeated, revolted without any understanding : there still will be no failure for redemption, though no doubt we will not understand it . Nothing can assure us that we are living well, because we are weighing with the weights of this world. A hundred times, it will seem to us to have failed, collapsed, and to have passed by everything that other men call youth, or maturity. But when eternal life will open large for us, when we die, before seeing God, we will not be sure of our righteousness, but rather of the mercy of God.

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