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O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up
to yourself. Fortify the nature you have created, with gifts so flowing
with honey that, from intense joy in your sweetness, it may despise and
reject all which is in this world, that it may accept spiritual gifts,
and through melodious jubilation, it may entirely melt in holy love,
reaching out for circumscribed Light.”
Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without
measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without
discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is;
for neither by reason is it restrained, nor be dread thronged, nor by
doom tempted.”
The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in
all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our
understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will
without gainsaying. In all our thought; that is, that we think on Him
without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work
of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God,
so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and
therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the
perfection of this life.”
It behooves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if
thou be wise. Thou art wise when thou art poor, without desire of this
world, and despisest thyself for the love of Jesus Christ; and expendeth
all thy wit and all thy might in His service. Whoso will love wisely,
it behooves him to love lasting things lastingly, and passing things
passingly; so that his heart be set and fastened on nothing but in God.”
graphic: Portrait from Cotton MS Faustina
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