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IN ALL
Let
me, Jesus, to sing You most beautiful hymns ever composed
to your praise,:
Let
me, Jesus, to sing You most beautiful hymns ever composed
to your praise,:
<< You are the God's picture invisible Firstborn of
all creature, because it is in You that all things have been
created in the heaven and on the earth, the visible and the
invisible, Thrones, Lordships, Principalities, Powers; all
has been created by You and for You, You are before all things
and all things subsist in You. You are also the Head of the
Body, that means the church, You are the Principle, Firstborn
among the deaths, (it was necessary that You get in all the
pre-eminence) because God liked making live in in You the
whole Fullness, and to reconcile by You all beings for Him,
as well on the earth that in the heaven, while making the
peace by the blood of your cross! >> (Collar. ,1,15-21).
<< You that were of divine condition, You didn't want
to delight the equality by force with God; but You are annihilated
Yourself, having taken slave's shape and having become similar
to the man; recognized by a real man, You went down making
You obedient until the death more again and why God exalted
You to the death on a croixC'est and gave You the Name that
is above all name; so that au name of Jesus, all knee bent
to the heaven, on earth and in the hells, and that all language
proclaims Christ that it is the Lord in God's right the Father
>> (Phil., II,6-11).
Lord
Jesus Christ, I want to sing You a new hymn, the hymn of the
one that ;a found and that looks for You again, of the one
that is close to You and that in is again if far, of the one
that likes You and that doesn't know to like again. , <<
I looked for You, Lord, and I didn't find You >> (Cant.
,3,2). How, indeed to call discovery of You my gloomy knowledge?
How to call love my mad flightiness? << Teach me where
you graze and where You rest on the noon >> (Cant. ,1,6).
Teach me this way to know You, to like You, to feed me You,
to live You, when the noon of life arrived, that one should
not be anymore a child, that the time of the flowers passed
and that the fall arrives. I backed out of your flaming arrows.
I didn't understand that all creatures donned of so many graces
and suavity were a mirror of your perfections in which I should
constantly have read your power, your wisdom, your beauty,
your kindness. Cf. Rom. ,1,18-24. I backed out of the stings
inflamed of your divine words contained in the Saints Writings:
they could only deaden the surface of my soul. I want to make
the big Book that you gave me my only book henceforth. I passed
so many hours in the books of the men, I don't want to read
more that this Book that speaks to me Toi.Je backed out of
the piercing stings of your mysteries, your long mystery of
Nazareth, the mysteries of your roving life, especially your
very painful Passion endured by love, and this Resurrection,
it yours and the one of the world, in which the work created
in You and for You has been restored in You and by Toi.Jésus-Christ,
I want to pass the rest of my life to contemplate You, to
adore You, to rent You, to like You and to make like You of
the men.
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- JESUS, MY LOVE,
Finally,
Jesus, the sting of your love wounded me. I feel qu I am now
an injured and that I won't heal more ever!... I am thirsty
and of You, Jesus! I don't want to like more than You. My
heart is quite torn. I suffer from not knowing how to like
you. I would like to be pleased, to adore You day and night!
Day and night, I would like to tell You thank you to have
me so much and forgiven so much! I would like to cry my lost
years because You were not there! I would like to testify
You my love and I don't know how me there to take. The science
of the love is so new for me that I get lost, I know only
how to tell You without end: Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! My Love!
My All! More Langueo; I am sick not to be able to like You.
I look everywhere for You, I find You but I don't find You
as I would like to Be! Jesus! Jesus! Come! Marana tha! Marana
tha! to know and to feel that You like me again, that You
always like me, what suffering and what happiness! what torment
and what joy! I sing and I cry; I shout and I am quiet! To
lose me in You, Jesus, my All! << Misfortune to the
one that doesn't like Our Lord Christ!> (1 Cor.16,23) All
is vain in life except to like Christ and to serve it, You
give me to want it d57;écrire of You in order to fix my thought
and my heart better in You. So much the better if of others
as sing these Laudeses and feel hurried to like You and to
search for You only.
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- JESUS,
HIDDEN TREASURE,
Jesus,
incarnate Verb, my God and my All. What does one know if one
doesn't know You? In You all treasures of wisdom and the science
are. To know you, You and the Father, that is the eternal
life. The prophets that you sent in the world to be the precursors
and the heralds of your advent made their delights to contemplate
by advance your mystery and put their glory to announce it
and to represent it to the men in their life. The Patriarches
and the former Just sighed after the time of your demonstration.
Did they wish with ardor to see your day and was their happiness
to savor the fruits of your mysteries in advance, and now
that You appeared fully at the world, how the men can - them
to take care to something else that to contemplate You and
to like you? While contemplating You, one contemplates the
Father, of which You are the unique perfect picture, and the
Holy spirit, that is your Mind and the Father's mind. I want
to look for You in all Writings that, all relate to You The
former Will contains the Christ already and he/it only understands
himself/itself by Him. << The divine Verb, said Origène,
has David's key and since it came with this key, It opens
the Writings that were closed before his/her/its arrival >>
(Apocs.col.20) It is why the church, the spiritual Israel
has quick l57;eau in abundance, while Agar is reduced to its
poor persons outrage empty always. Thanks to the New will,
the church discovers the mysteries hidden in the old, making
spring thus as many sources that refreshes the soul in the
desert of this life
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NAME,
Jesus,
it is your name. He/it contains all others names and all
others stocks that give You the Holy spirit and your Wife,
the church. But this name is so infinite that to understand
it a little on the earth, it is necessary to give of it
to You one thousand others that don't add anything to your
proper name, but help us to enter there; Your name, Jesus,
is a sun to the one thousand rays. My eyes are so here below
weak that they can only receive at a time a ray. I want
to stop therefore to some - some of the names that the mind
- Saint whispered at the heart of the prophets, the Apostles,
the Evangelists and your Wife; to taste them, to savor them,
with the narrow mouth of my heart, You imploring to dilate
it from day to day so that your Only name - Jesus - is sufficient
to me one day. As waiting, in the exile, let me give You
one thousand various names, to tell You my desire better
to know You and to express You my torment not to know You.
Jesus, You are alone to know the sense of your name. You
are this knight who carries << registered on him,
a name that it is alone to know >> (Apoc., 19,12).
But You want to reveal it, and while revealing it to engrave
it, and while engraving it to take possession of the one
that carries it, so that he/it becomes Yours, that says
me, that he/it becomes You. So such had to be the fruit
of my effort, for me and for all those that will read to
me, while looking for your name, Jesus, I will have made
what one can make better in this life, since << the
eternal life it is to know the Father and The one that he/it
sent, Christ> (Jn. ,17,3). When Isaïe got ready to celebrate
your sizes and your name three times saint, his/her/its
indignity froze it of fright. <Then, one of the Seraphs
flew toward me, (he says), holding hand-held an incandescent
stone that he/it had taken with tongs on the altar. He/it
touched some my mouth while saying: <To this touch on
your lips, your mistake left from it, your sin is expiated.
(Is. ,6,6-7). This ardent coal he/it is not your name himself.
One doesn't purify itself to pronounce your name, one is
purified while pronouncing it. Amen! hallelujah!
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- JESUS, NAME AU_DESSUS OF ALL NAME,
In
your resurrection, You received the Nm above all name,
and this name is << King of the kings and Lord
of the Lords >> (Apoc., 19,13,16). The epistle
in the Philippienses celebrates the glorification of
the resuscitated Christ: << God exalted it sovereignly
and gave him the Name above all name, so that au name
of Jesus, all knee bent, in the sky, on the earth and
in the hells, and that all language confesses that Christ
is Lord to God's glory the Father >> (2,9-11).
And the epistle in the Éphésienses repeats: <<
God revived the Christ among the deaths and made it
sit to his/her/its right in the heaven, above all principality,
domination, power, lordship, and of queqlue name that
cannot only name itself in this world, but again dan
the world to come >> (1,20-21)). And this name
is the Name of the Seingneur. In this day of his/her/its
résurreciton, Jesus receives this name and the condition
or the state sgnifié by this name. These honors clean
to God address << in the name of Jesus >>.
The one that receives the divine honors is well Jesus
of Nazareth, this << approved man of God >>
(Act., 2,22) that, after having died on the cross, entered
in the divine glory. Jesus is the name that invites
Him because of the assumed humanity, at the time of
Easter, this Jesus that one had known like a man among
the men, except the sin, that one had seen to suffer
and to die on a cross, entered in a condition of existence
and in prerogatives that are those of very God. Without
stopping being the one that one designated during his/her/its
terrestrial existence by Jesus' name, he/it entered
in possession of a name that is the one of very God:
the Lord. His/her/its resurrection makes it enter at
the same time in an intimacy where no creature can enter
and he hears each other to say by God: << You
are my Son, it is I that generate you today >>)
PS., 2. 7). After having accomplished the purification
of the sins, He/it is allés'asseoir in the right of
the Majesty at the height of the heaven, becoming thus
of as much superior to the angels that the name that
received ILa in sharing prevails indeed over theirs,
to which of the angels, God has he ever says: <<
You is my Son, that who am I generates You today? >>
(Héb., 1, 3-5).
lready,
in the exile of the earth, You have us afait to know
your ineffable Name. In relation to God, You are his/her/its
Verb, and in relation to the world, You are the King
of the kings and the Lord of the Lords. Well more, your
<< new Name >> (Apoc., 3,12). only makes
one with the one of the Father: << I live the
standing lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him
hundred forty - four thousand people having his/her/its
name and his/her/its Father's name on their forehead
>> (Apoc., 14,1). You are the only Lord!
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- JESUS, ETERNAL NAME,
Your
name is eternal: he/it is the Father himself. What
another one that God the Father would have dared
to give a name to the incarnate Verb? Only, the
one that generates the Verb eternally can name it:
<< I am the Lord who calls You by your name
>> (Is., 45,3). << One will give you
a name that will leave of plugs it even of Yahwé
>> (Is., 62,2). << Lord, your name dates
of the eternity >> (Is.63,16), of the hour
where << You have been predestined Son of
God in strength >> (Rom. 1,4) << one
gave him his/her/its name of Jésus,indiqué by the
angel before he/it had been conceived in the breast
(of his/her/its mother) >> (Lc. ,2,21)
The
Lord Jesus is he << firstborn of all creature>.
(Collar., 1,15). It is impossible to translate by
<< firstborn among the creatures >>.
This expression means therefore < born before
all creature >>. The Christ is not to arrange
in the category of the beings created; besides,
he possesses a mode of existence suprérieur and
previous to all to be created. So that he/it doesn't
remain no ambiguous, Paul
comments himself/itself himself while saying that
the Christ <is before all things >>, and
he gives this reason that << all has been
created by Him and for Him >> (Collar., 1,16).
It is necessary to be before acting, not only the
Christ existed, but He subsisted as God >>
(Phil, 2,6). It is the key, God's shape can acquire
himself/itself nor can get lost. She/it is not supplanted
by her << shape of slave>. that she/it
attaches herself/itself in the time: where she/it
is, she/it is of all eternity. It is why <<
Jesus-Chrsist was yesterday, it is today and it
will be in the centuries of the centuries >>
(Heb., 13,8).
8 - JESUS, << SOME
THAT ALL THINGS HOLD AND are HELD >> (HEB.,
13,8)
Source
first of all beings, also said nothing about
their principle of chohésion and harmonie,De
all created it, Killed made neat ununivers having
unsens, a value, a finality. È the one that
knows you, these mureailles raised by the men
between that that they call ordrenaturel and
supernatural order, appear foreign è the harmony,
è the cohesion, and è the perfect unit of the
pland of the divine wisdom. << In You,
all things hold and are held >>: they
cannot be nor can subsist regardless of You.
They are not like the "building that subsists
regardless of the architect, when once he/it
made it construct, because, it is in You that
<< all creatures have the ëtre, life and
the movement >> (Art., XVII,28).
All
creatures only subsist to form your Body: all
what exists, what makes itself, everything that
arrives, That this world is beautiful when one
considers it in this report that it has with
You, Christ, the first and the last in God's
intentions. All is for You, the present things
and the future, the visible things and the invisible.
All creatures subisistent enToi and for You.
Apparently, they pass and follow the some the
other, but in You, they stay eternally. Remove
this veil that stops me from seeing that You
are all in all and in all.
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PRE-EMINENCE IN ALL (COLLAR., 1,17).
First
in God's love, << only son of his/her/its
dilection >> (Collar. ,1,13). the Christ
Jésus is also the first in his/her/its intention:
God wanted Christ and the whole remains, and the
angels, the men and all the universe for Him,
Christ, the incarnate Verb is the grant of the
Tirinité that contains all others grants and condition
God's works, because << it was pleasing
to God that in the Christ lived in the whole fullness>.
(Collar., 2,9) It is the Christ Jésus and no an
another one that holds the pre-eminence in all,
in the universe and in the church, in the whole
creation and in all the order of the grace.
And this fullness doesn't
reside in the Christ in a transient way, it lives
in some it to the state permament. All is bound
intimately in the Christ Jésus, the Creation,
the Redemption, the glory,: in all Him yours the
Primantué.Jésus-Christ, object premier,unique
and totat of the complaissances, of joy, of the
Father's bonhuer, I adore You and me You aime.C'est
to be in You that are worth us of Ëtre <<
holy, san stains, without reproach >> (Collar.
,1,22). This divine complaisance is assured us,
if we stay << solidly agents and consolidate
in the faith, unshakable in the hope promised
by the gospel >> (Collar., 1,23)
10 JESUS, RESPLENDENCE
OF THE GLORY (OF GOD) AND EFFIGY OF HIS/HER/ITS
SUBSTANCE (hÉB., 1,3).
As
well as the sun gives out the rays that make body
with it and shows the source at the same time from
where they come, so, Jesus, You are << Light
of light; true God of true God>. according to
the words of the Symbol. You are indeed consubstantial
to the Father and with Him one only and same God.
You are the expression or the Father's effigy, The
print let by a seal is the picture perfected of
the type that it reproduces, You are in all similar
the Father's, since You are directly the printed
print by It, Consubstantial, identical and equal
to the Father by nature, You are distinct of it
as person. And since the assomption of the human
nature, don't drag a reduction of the divinté,ces
names agree to You not only as Son of God within
the blissful Trintié, but also and without any restriction
as << incarnate Verb some that resides the
fullness of the divinité÷. (Collar., m 11.9).
TO what would rage us, indeed,
that You are the radiance of the Father and his/her/its
perfect expression if You were not at the same time
the Verb makes man living among us, so that You
seer, contemplating You, we can discover the depths
of the filial life to which You returned us participant?
Poor son of God that we add, You are our unique
hope, You, only is the Father's true Son, the radiance
of his/her/its being and reproduction perfected
of his/her/its substance, Unite me to You, Jesus,
finish by my daily Communion, my incorporation to
You. Erase the features of the carnal and terrestrial
and serious man in me the picture of the new man,
son of God, so that in You and by You I am a little
the radiance of the Father's glory and his/her/its
picture.
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- JESUS, ALPHA AND OMEGA
Jesus
Lord, Alpha and Omega, purify my look, so that I can discover
You everywhere and feel your ubiquity in all men and in all
creature. The entire universe has been wanted for You; Your
acting and unifying presence permits, only, to seize the sense
of all, because all has been created by You and for You; and
You are in the world, bringing back all to the unit. Allow
me to taste and to savor your essential attributes of alpha
and omega. Beginning and consumption of all things! Principle
and final reason of all créatures!Jésus, I am Yours and You
are mine. I am Yours, intended to your Fullness, wanted in
view of your mystical Body. I am Yours, so that your glory
appears in me, so that the men can find You in me; You are
my principle, my source, my life, my end. You made me man
to relive in me your human life taken in Marie, so that I
am for You, a humanity moreover, in which You relive, You
prolong, You continue all your mysteries, You in me and me
in You, as the Father is in You and that You are in Père.Quelle
joy, Jesus, to think that each of my works contributes to
perfect your mystical Body! In the action and by the action,
I confound myself with the Father's infinite will that only
wants a thing: The total Christ, and that works constantly
to form It. I cooperate to the very action of the mind training
the mystical Christ. I meet You, oh Christ, who was, who is,
and that come. Associated to the Father in the common love
of the term: the total Christ, me You are associated intimately
in the men who become always more You by my apostolate.
God
Lord, You are the one that is and that creates and generate
what is not constantly, You are the being. The creature is
what is not. When she/it is, what she/it is come completely
of You and must be refered You entirely. Because she/it is
not yet, she/it remains a creature, a being to finish and
that doesn't exist again fully. All creature is nothing, emptiness,
darkness. You create, Lord God, and what was not, and the
emptiness is filled, and darkness makes place to light. It
is why everything that is made and generated by You goes to
You, Father, like a son goes to his/her/its Father, in the
praise, the worship and the love; and what is not a voice
that calls you, an abyss that shouts toward You, The one of
that comes everything that is and without which nothing can
être.Seigneur Christ, my God and my All, grant me, please:
to live in You and to let live You fully in me your life of
incarnate Verb--crucified--resuscitated. Grant me of more
to want it only: to be seized by You and to be transformed
in You; to want it to every minute and with a perseverance
that never denies itself. So that You live in me and me in
You, grant me the grace to die entirely to myself, to mortify
my natural inclinations, to make of every moment of my life
an act of immolation and pure love, in the service happy of
the other, constantly. Amen Hallelujah
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- JESUS, THE NAME THAT SAVES,
<<
In my tribulation, I invoked the name of the Lord; I hoped
for the help of Jacob's God and I have been saved. You are
the hope and the shelter of the poor people, oh God! >>
(Ps.15, 1-4). The Christian are those that are Yours, justified
and sanctified, because they are << those that invoke
the name of the Lord>. (Rom. 10,6-13). So, you confess
mouth indeed,: Jesus is Lord, and if you believe in your
heart that God revived It among the deaths, you will be
saved >> (Rom. /10,9). The evangelical message sums
up in the invocation of the name of the Lord. This invocation
translates the Christian faith in Jesus' resurrection, in
which God made It Lord. Also the Christian are called <<
those that invoke the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ >>
(I Cor.1,2; II Tim.2,22). Indeed, said Saint Pierre: <<
God made It Lord and Christ, this Jesus qu you crucified
>> (Act., 2,35), and << he doesn't have another
name under the sky given to the men, by which he fails us
to be saved >> (Act., 4,12). Ananie tells Paul: <<
Receive the baptism and purify you of your sins while invoking
his/her/its name>. (Act., 22,16), that means while confessing
that Jesus is Lord. To Philippe's jailer who asks for that
that he/it must make to be saved Paul answers: <<
Believe to the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and
yours >> (ACT., 16,31); and after having instructed
it him the baptisa.Celui that recognizes You for his/her/its
Lord You belongs. He/it is not anymore his, but to You.
How would not he/it be sanctified? And if he/it is Yours,
how can he/it live otherwise like the one to which he/it
belongs? Because, in appropriating it to You, You give him
your Mind, this Mind that guides it in all his/her/its ways
and brings it to imitate the life of Son of incarnate and
resuscitated God. Otherwise, he/it recognizes You Lord that
of mouth and no of the bottom of his/her/its heart.
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- JESUS, NAME OF THE LOVE,
And
giving to the Christ the name of Verb, holy Jean shows that
he assigns him the place of the universal Wisdom that explains
all things. But the continuation of the gospel shows that
Jean doesn't hear to demonstrate this truth not at all by
arguments of the human wisdom. It is the incarnate Verb
that appears and makes itself understand Himself as the
love and manifest in the love the glory or beauty clean
to God and so all truth. The verb explains while showing
by his/her/its creation, his/her/its Incarnation--Passion--Resurrection,
that God is love and that the love is the reason of all.
But the love that the Verb reveals is the divine, absolute
love, no any love; it is why the revelation of God's love
is at the same time the revelation of his/her/its glory,
that means the absolute transcendence of the divine love
that is all other and excludes all confusion entirely between
this love and a few other love that it is. In presence of
the majesty of the absolute love who advances toward the
man in the incarnation, the Passion, the Resurrection, the
Eucharist, and that invites it to the incomprehensible intimacy
of << to make body with Him >>, the mystical
Body, the man senses that God is love and that this love
all different of all other love is God's glory. Thus, at
the same time, is unveiled us the whole secret of history:
God's glory by the formation of the Body of the
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- JESUS, NAME OF THE FATHER'S ONLY SON,
Jesus,
Only son of the Father, no by adoption but by generation,
object of the Father's complaisances, I adore You and I
contemplate You in your eternal generation, incomprehensible
to all created intelligence, angelic and human. The Father
was never without his/her/its Son and You were never without
the Father. You are God of God, light of light, true God
of true God, You You are named Yourself << The only
son, unigenitus >> (Jn., 1,18); and the Father confirmed
your speech: <it is He my beloved Son, the object of
all my complaisances >> (LC., 9,35). You wanted to
be among us without stopping being with your Father; You
wanted to be born of the Virgin Marie and, as staying Son
of Dieu,Tu became Son of Marie. How much You deserve my
love in your state of Son of God and incarnate Verb in Marie!
You are for the Father; for Him You make everything that
You make, You never looked for that his/her/its glory, You
n' wanted ever whatever it is except that the Father is
known and beloved as he is, the Father of infinite mercy.
Everything that You receive the Father continually, You
offer it to Him, and You always tell to Him: << Everything
that is mine is Yours >> (Jn., 17.10): My to be, my
power, my works. You returned me participant of your divine
filiation by the holy Baptism and the Eucharist. Make that,
to your example, I only look for the Father's glory and
that my application is to make what is pleasant to his/her/its
eyes always. And since the Father only likes You and what
is You, make that I am one with You. Make that my being
only subsists for You, that all my actions have other principles
nor other end than You, that my life consumes itself for
You, Ah! so, at the hour of my death, I could say with You
and as You: << My Father, me T57;ai glorified on the
earth, I finished the work that you gave me to make, I showed
your name to the men >>... (Jn., 17,4-6) Christ for
the eternal praise of the merciful love.
<<
So speaks the amen, the faithful Witness is true, the Principle
of God's works>. (Apoc., 3,14)
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- JESUS, << THE ONE THAT is THE SPOUSE >> (JN.,
3,29).
Jesus,
eternal Wisdom been born of God, You take your complaisances
among the men, (Pr. ,8.23.37), to the point to marry the
humanity and every soul in particular; Your Incarnation
unveils us the mystery announced in the AT, especially by
Daring and the Hymn of the hymns: the spouse, it is You
and the wife that is I and all the humanity. Without your
blood, the alliance is sealed (I Horn., 11,25), and it is
for it that the apocalypse doesn't name Jerusalem anymore
marries God, but marries the lamb (Ap., 21,9). How not to
be confounded and as shattered before so much love? To be
the Christ's wife! who will ever consist of such a call?
To marry the Christ, to make his/her/its sacred person,
of his/her/its interests, of his/her/its glory, my unique
reason to live! Marry his/her/its thoughts, his/her/its
vouloirs, his/her/its manners! To carry his/her/its name:
more to live for me but for Him. To be married by the Christ,
to abandon him forever all my to be, my interests, my necessities,
for the time and for the eternity! <Don't have shame!
you won't have to blush... because your spouse, it is your
Creator.. I liked You of an eternal love>. (Is., 54,408)
(cf.Jér.XXXI,3). Can Jesus, your love, to triumph never
over all my resistances, to forget my adulteries, to tire
You of me and to drive me to the eternal wedding where our
union will be sealed forever.
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16 JESUS, << TRUE LIGHT >>. (jN., 1,9)
You
are light. The physical light of the day is his/her/its picture,
God is all the burst of the quickest light (Hab., 3,4) light
is his/her/its garment (Ps.104,2). He/it lives in an inaccessible
light (I.Tim., 6,16). The writing constantly speaks of the
light of his/her/its face to designate his/her/its providence,
his/her/its goodness, his/her/its solicitude, his/her/its
love (ps.35,10; 89,16). The book of Wisdom affirms that light
is God's very essence, light incréée, superior to all created
light. (Sag., 7, 26,29). S. Jean specifies that this title
suits it more especially << Verb that is the real light
that illuminates all man >> (Jn., 1,9). He/it gives
out a doctrine that will be the pivot of all his/her/its gospel:
the incarnate Verb has for mission to show God in the world.
<< Born light of light >>, he/it is << the
Sun raising that must illuminate all nations... all those
that are held in darkness >> (Lc., 1.78; 2,32) Jesus
is revealed light of the world by his/her/its acts and his/her/its
words. The recoveries of blinds have on this point a particular
significance, as S. Jean underlines it while returning the
episode of the blind-born and Jesus' declarations: <<
So much that I am in the world, I am the light of the world"
(Jn. ,9,5). Elsewhere, Jesus had said: << That follows
me doesn't walk in darkness but he/it will have the light
of life >> (Jn. ,8,12); << me, Light, I came in
the world so that whoever believes in me doesn't walk in darkness
>> (Jn. ,12,46). A drama becomes knotted from then on
around You, Jesus, the confrontation of light and darkness,:
The essence of light is to hunt darkness. While waiting for
the final exit, and through adventures without number, we
are already assured that << darkness won't succeed in
choking light >> (Jn., 1,5). I feel this struggle to
him - in of me; that of even illuminated earths of your light.
Raise you, Jesus, sun of light, dissipates darkness of my
long night forever:
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Beneficent light in the middle of these shades, do guide me
in dark avant.La is dark and am I far from my home, do guide
me in avant.Veille on my path; that imports me to see the
far horizon? Only one step is sufficient to me.
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I didn't always pray you like today, so that you drive me.
I liked to choose then and to know my road; guide me now.
I liked the burst of the day; the pride, in spite of my fears,
reigned in me; don't remember anymore of the past.
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Your power too long condescended to bless me, For more to
guide me, Among moors and swamp and rock and torrent, So much
that hard the overnight; And with the morning I will smile
these angels, That I always liked and that a time I lost..
NEWMA
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JESUS, LIGHT OF THE WORLD,
S.
Jean tells us that life given by the creation is light! Only
living being, finally, that understands itself of himself,
knows from where he/it is and where he/it goes. Inversely,
the world is not darkness in this sense that it would be a
power hostile to God and preexisting by herself; the world
is light if it knows from where it comes, that it is, and
where it goes, and it becomes darkness if it closes again
himself/itself on himself, refuse to be illuminated by God's
Speech revealing him his/her/its reports with God. Darkness
is not substance eternal God's, but a historic act, that means
the revolt, through the man's history, against God's Speech
that created it and indicated him the sense of his/her/its
life, and this man's withdrawal on himself. It is why S. Jean
gives to the man's disposition that tries to be his/her/its
own center the character of a lie and a murder (Jn., 8, 42-476).
Very different of the one of the gnose, of the Christian dualism
must be consisted in a non ontological sense but historic.
Jesus, I understand that, come pure << to save the world
>> whose illness is the sufficiency, the pride, the
selfishness, the withdrawal on himself, You could not follow
another way that the one of the extinction, of the kénose.
The cross is our light: << Per crucem at lucem >>.
To recognize, with love, worship, praise, that You are my
Creator, my Savior, my Lord, my God and my All, it come out
of darkness, to become indeed light and intoxicated v. Be
rented, Lord Jesus, of me to have pulled to darkness of the
pride, of the selfishness, of the sufficiency. << these
are your hands that me one makes>. (Ps., 138,5). Everything
that I follow comes of You, I am not anything, menothing,
me then rien,Tu Sanctus solus, You Dominus solus! Tru Altissimus
solus, Jesu Christe! To adore you, to rent You, to like You!
To stay in light: to have a knowledge of love, from where
I am, that I follow, and for that I am! As You, Jesus, who
is light because You know that <You came out of the Father
and that You return to the Father>, and because You don't
search for your glory but the glory of the one that a messenger>.
(Jn., 8, 50,53)
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JESUS, OUR LAWYER NEARBY OF THE FATHER
(I, jN., 2,7; HÉB., 7, 25)
<<
If someone, said S. Jean, commits a sin, we have a lawyer,
Christ, the just.. (I.Jn., 2.1) Jean borrows his comparison
to the judicial customs. At the Hebrews, there were not lawyers
of profession >>, but of them << charitable defenders
>>, that intervened especially in favor of the poor
people, the ignoramuses, the orphans, the widows, of all those
in a word, that could defend themselves themselves (Is, 1,17).
When at the Greeks and the Romans, to which wrote S. Jean,
a man was accused and was translated before the courts, his/her/its
first care, as in our modern societies, was to look for a
lawyer that pleaded his/her/its reason by the judges and got
him the forgiveness. When a Christian commits a sin that deserves
the eternal death, the demon, << the accuser of the
men who accuses them before God day and night>. (Apoc.12,10)
asks this punishment, <, It is already all controlled>.,
answers Jesus, our lawyer, while presenting to his/her/its
Father, his/her/its own death, as ransom of the sin. Jesus,
for the one that believes in the redeeming value of your death
and that hopes in your infinite merits, there is never and
he/it cannot have a condemnation there. You are not, Jesus,
a lawyer as those of the earth: The one that applies to You
with faith and confidence always gets his/her/its grace or
his/her/its forgiveness! Oh blissful death of Jesus, always
present to the Father's eyes, you are my hope, my certainty
of the salute! Jesus, You are not a lawyer as those of the
earth: instead of making You pay for your services, You pay
for Yourself the debt of your client and firm the accuser's
mouth! ö merciful Lawyer, to You, eternal praise!.
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JESUS, LAMB OF GOD,
IIsaïe
compares the suffering and dying Messiah to expiate his/her/its
people's sins to << a lamb drives to the butcher shop,
to a mute sheep and not opening the mouth>. (Is., 53,7
(. The Philippe apostle explains to the eunuch of the queen
of Ethiopia that, under this symbol, Isaïe announced <,
<Jesus' Good News>. (Ac., 8,31-35). Jean - Baptist also,
seeing Jesus coming to him, says: & times <has the
lamb of God who removes the sin of the world >> (Jn.,
1,29). As when God decided to deliver his/her/its captive
people of the Egyptians, to make know the universal salute
brought by Jesus better, he ordered to the Hebrews to immolate
by family << a lamb without flaw, male, aged of one
year >> (Ex., 12,5), to eat it in the evening, and to
mark his/her/its blood the lintels of their door. Thanks to
this sign, they would be saved by the angel exterminator coming
to hit all first - born of the Egyptians. The Christ's face
is the one that seems to have the struckest S. Pierre, S.
Jean and S. Paul. The theme of the lamb immolated, our Easter,
fills their writings, Jesus is the lamb without flaw, that
means without sin, that purchases the men at the cost of his/her/its
Blood (I.P_et.m,12,18. and s; I.Jn,3,5; Héb., 9,12-15).
Jesus,
Lamb of God, You came and You always come. Every day, I raise
for me and for the men << immaculate L57;Agneau >>
(I.Pet. ,1,19), the white Host, asking You to continue and
to finish the task begun since the origin of the world and
that will be finished only with the last of purchased them.
Until the last day, it is necessary to tell God with the wife
of the lamb; << Emitte agnum, Dominate, dominatorem
terrae; sends, oh Lord, the lamb who must become the Mr. of
the earth (IA., 16,1). The men bend under the weight of their
sins. A big number ignores the salute again that You bring;
Jesus, make you know at the world so unhappy because of his/her/its
sins, as the lamb who removes all sins. The men sinners and
soiled, incorporated to You, lost in You, participate to your
whiteness. They have indeed << cleaned their clothes
in the Blood of the lamb >> (Apoc., 7,14). Make than
one day, thanks to your blood having defeated Satan, of which
Pharaoh was the face, we sang eternally in Homeland, <<
the hymn of Moise and the lamb >> (Apoc., 15, 43; 7.9)
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JESUS, KING OF THE KINGS, LORD OF THE LORDS (APOC., 17, 14;
19,16).
The
same Jean who invites us to contemplate You as the immolated
lamb that, by his/her/its voluntary extinctions and his/her/its
death on the cross, erase the sins of the world, be urgent
us to contemplate You also in the glory, << seated on
a throne>. (Apoc., 7,17) << adored by the twenty-four
old men >> (5,8), << by all elected >> (7,9-10)
that sing with all angels << the hymn of the lamb >>
(15,3). << King of the kings and Lord of the Lords >>
(17, 14), enclosed of God's very power, in joy and the glory
of the marriages with the wife, your reign of love arrived
and it won't have anymore of end. Happy those that washed
their dress in the blood of the lamb, they live in with You
the celestial Jerusalem and follow You everywhere (14,1-4),
taking part in your bridal feast (19,7), registered forever
<< in the book of life of the lamb >> (21, 27).
While waiting, You give us a foretaste and an absolute insurance
of this celestial Banquet every day in the Banquet eucharistique.
Ö divine Eucharist, true treasure of the earth, You already
allow myself to adore and to rent the always immolated lamb
and glorious, and to eat it to become one with Him. Happy,
a thousand times happy, the one that believes that You are,
<< the true Bread descended of the sky so that those
that eat You can already live You and for You (Jn., 6).
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JESUS, HEIR OF ALL THINGS (HÉB., 1,2).
The
inheritance, to the biblical sense, is the share assigned
to someone by God, his/her/its personal, inaccessible and
inviolable property. The inheritance doesn't imply the idea
of succession, Israel is the inheritance, the share, the property
of Yahweh, (Ex., 34, 9; I" Sat., 10,1), he is his/her/its
good individual (Ex., 19,5). Here the inheritance conferred
to Jesus, it is everybody angelic and human; everything that
is not God him even, all created it, of which he/it is made
the Lord (Act., 10, 36; Phil., 2,11). God dons his/her/its
Son Christ of the Lordship that he possesses on all created
it. This universal Lordship, Jesus won't exercise it fully
and in all his/her/its extent that when he will appear in
his/its glory; but since the origin, he is true Son, heir
or universal Lord.
I am a small part of your inheritance. Me You belong, Jesus,
You are my Lord, my owner. Everything that I follow is Yours.
Take possession, Jesus, completely and entirely of your inheritance.
Don't wait for the Parousie. That already my soul and my body,
my faculties and my senses are Yours. Don't stand Jesus that
the thieves and the strangers wreck your grapevine at all
times anymore. Be the guard and the defender of your inheritance.
Be my rampart, my fortress! Remember, Jesus, that I am your
inheritance, me, << earth of Canaan> once and alas!
visited again today by the Jébuséenses and the Amorrhréenses,
Jesus, seize of your inheritance, surround me with fences,
garage me, please, because I am without defense.
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JESUS, YOU THAT LEAD TO THE LOVE,
The
Nahum prophet teaches us that God is a Lover who waits for
us a pure love of all other love. This purification of the
love is herself the works of God: << Without the hurricane,
in the storm, the Lord makes his/her/its road, the clouds
are the dust that his/her/its steps raise, it threatens the
sea, it puts it to dry, it makes dry up all streams. Bashan
and the Carmel are faded some, withered the greenery of Lebanon!
The mountains tremble before him and the hills vacillate >>.
Nab., 1,2-5). The hurricanes and the storms of life are the
instruments of which God uses to make the soul see the vanity
and the nothing of all things of here below. The clouds of
dust that his/her/its steps raise, and that prevent us to
see it, the nights of the soul, makes to seize that God is
beyond all picture and all idea that the man can have Him.
, The droughts and the disgusts, the bankruptcy of our obvious
virtues, the nudity of our floors, the absence of all true
holiness, shakes the mountains and the hills of the confidence
in itself. So Ninive or the old man is destroyed: <<
So I am going to break his/her/its yoke that weighs on you,
to break your chains >> (! ,13).
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- JESUS, CREATOR,
Jesus
Lord, I believe that You can make of me a Living, that, of
this Lazare in decomposition that I follow. You can make a
Living, a Living of your daily life. You are The one that
is, me I am the one that is not. What is, is good and holy.
Because You are the absolute being, You are three times saint:
Sanctus! Sanctus! Sanctus! Because I am nothing, I am the
emptiness, the absence of all good. Come, Jesus Creative!
Come, creative Mind. By You, All is made and nothing of that
that is, is without You. You that fill the emptiness, look
at my emptiness, my vanity, my nothing. Merciful creator,
make that I am. Pull me from nothing! Fill me of You.
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JESUS, WAY OF THE SALUTE,
There
is not another way to enter in the divine life that Jesus
crucified: It is necessary to die to oneself. It is necessary
that the flesh with all his/her/its lusts is crucified to
relive in the resurrection. It is an absolute. There is not
another path; Jesus crucified, send me your Mind. Without
Him, me then nothing to understand to the mystery of the cross.
No one can follow Jesus in his/her/its Passion without have
been comforted by the Holy spirit. It is because Marie was
already filled of the Holy spirit that only, she could follow
Jesus until the Calvary. The Apostles were only capable of
it after the Pentecost. Come, Mind of the Father! Come, Mind
of Jesus to teach me the new science of the Cross. That Marie's
adhesion, the graceful, to the mystery of the Cross, is admirable!
Soft Virgin Marie, pray for me, Pray for the world. Get us
the graces of the Pentecost
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JESUS. AGONIZING
Jésus,
after your triumphal entry in Jerusalem, the Day of the
Branches, I hear You to wonder Yourself: << It is
necessary to say: Father, do save me of this hour, of this
horrible Passion, of this awful death? Would I ask my Father
are my personal delivery of the hand of the men or I going
to plunge me in this baptism of blood to save the men of
the eternal death? What to ask? To listen to the voice of
the nature or to choke You to run to the salute of my unhappy
brothers? My soul is disturbed, agitated. Yet, it is for
this hour that I came! It is necessary to glorify my Father's
name absolutely while revealing by my Passion and my Resurrection
his/her/its merciful love and his/her/its intention of the
salute of the men. Then, no my will, but her yours, oh Father;
no my rest, but your glory; no my delivery, but the one
of the men >> (Jn.., XII,27-28). Ö Jesus, give me,
give to all priests of the world, give to all your disciples,
your strength of soul, to work without relaxation to the
salute of the men, with You.
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Jesus
crucified, I prostrate before You, I adore You as God's Son,
the grant of the Father's merciful love for the men, my Redeemer
and my Savior. Of it << You exhibitor like instrument
of atonement by your own blood>. (Rom., 3,25), the Father
clearly demonstrates us his/her/its merciful and faithful
will, already attested by the Law and the Prophets, to save
all men. The infinite value of your sacrifice on the cross
is at the disposal of all man who believes and hope in You.
While adhering to You by the confidence and the love, the
man appropriates this treasure of atonement, of justification,
of interior transformation and the sien.Seigneur fact, give
me and increase constantly in me this interior disposition
of faith, hope and charity, that is the justification and
the holiness herself, because You are the Saint of the Saints
and this disposition throws me in You and hurls down You in
me, and it makes that You and me we are one. Tied you are,
oh Father, for Jesus crucified! Tied you for the grant of
the faith, the hope and the charity that returns me owner
of Jesus are and makes of me his/her/its property.
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Ö
Jesus crucified, grant me the grace to put in practice until
in the last act of my death, this precept that You gave
us by your Apostle Paul,: << That the members of your
body are not as weapons between the hands of the Sin to
establish in you the reign of the iniquity... But put your
members to God's service as weapons to produce good actions
>> (Rom., 6, 12.13). << That the sin doesn't
reign anymore in my deadly body, seat of the concupiscence
>> (Rom., 6.12.) . Has all my body been sold to the
Sin to serve him of instrument; but you didn't purchase
my body and broken this contract? How can the Sin ask again
for what doesn't belong to him anymore? Jesus, my body and
my members You belong. Put forward your rights and don't
let anybody seize what is Yours again! I have confidence
that the Sin won't dominate anymore in me, not being anymore
under the Law, but under the grace >> (Rom., 6,14)
that defeated the Sin
Jesus
Lord, my God and my All, I abandon You my justification
and my sanctification. I recognize that my sins are so numerous
and so big that they cannot be removed that by You; that
my soul is if soiled that it can only be purified by your
Blood; that the life of the old man is so tenacious in me
that it cannot be defeated that by your death! Jesus I abandon
You my sanctification! You only are the Sun, the white-water,
Bread and the Wine of my growth. Me there then nothing,
Jesus, my savior, my Redeemer, my Sanctifier,. look in your
infinite mercy at the nothing that I follow. Healed my leprosy
and my putrefaction; return I participant of your life,
sanctify me. I am not anything, I don't have anything, me
then nothing. I give to myself and I give way to You, Jesus,
That I am not confounded
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JESUS, GOD'S BIG WORK,
Christ,
You are God's big and unique Work, the Plérôme, the Fullness
and the Totality of God's works. All creature is associated
to your Fullness, as the members he is to the fullness and
the totality of the Body (Collar., 2,910). Already our life
is hidden in God with the Christ and by It: << when
the Christ will be demonstrated--when this mystery of our
incorporation to the Christ, in view of his/her/its Fullness---
will be demonstrated, then we will also have appeared full
of glory >> (Collar., 2,2-4). Yes, indeed << has
the Christ only: he/it is All and in all >> (I.Cor.,
15,28). Oh Wisdom! Oh Goodness! Oh Love! My God, I believe
in Christ; I believe qu57;Il is in me and that I am some Him.
Always incorporate me more to You, Jesus, by my daily Communion,
so that grow my hope and my love. Jesus, Jesus, that I die
and that You live in me and that I live in You, and that so
the reign perfects God arrives. Jesus, my All.
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Father,
I believe in You << as in The one that revived the
Jesus deaths, our Lord, who has been delivered for our sins,
and revived for our justification >> (Rom., 4,24,25).
Give and increase constantly in me the faith and the confidence
by which Jesus' death becomes my complete death to the sin,
and Jesus' resurrection becomes my resurrection to the life
of the Christ Jésus. Since You gave me your beloved Son,
how, oh Father, you could refuse me the grant of the faith
and the hope in Him since without this grant, Jesus' grant
I am useless. By love for your Son, for your Son's glory,
give me, oh Father, and give to all men of the earth to
believe and to hope in Jesus, only Savior and Redeeming,
eternal life of the men.
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JESUS, to MAKE KNOW YOU,
What
vocation! To be Jesus' ostensory, as Jesus is the Father's
ostensory. << God had spoken to our fathers by the prophets,
but in these last days, he spoke us in his/her/its Son....
Him, that is the radiance of the glory and the expression
of the divine being (heb., 1,1-3). My Christian and ministerial
vocation is to be a ray of the Christ's glory that saved me
and purchased. It is necessary that your Savior's glory appears
in me, by the impression of me of your humble, poor, chaste
and infinitely charitable life. Me then to radiate your glory
that while expressing your holy life, Jesus, You are the Father's
glory, because the Father communicated You his/her/its substance.
You received everything of the Father. I will be your glory
if You communicate me your life. Of myself, I am not anything,
me then nothing. Me then only to open my soul and to receive.
Come, Lord Jesus prints in me your Son's quality, configure
my life to her yours. Then living of You and as You, I will
be for my brothers the radiance of your glory, your being's
expression, your Ostensory. Marie, ostensory perfects Jesus,
pray for me!.
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32 JESUS, OF THE GRAY DAYS
For
You only, Jesus, this day that begins, in mist and dullness.
It is necessary that the soul sometimes works by the gray
and sorry landscapes. << It was the winter: Jesus went
and came in the Temple, under Salomon's porch >> (Jn.,
10,23). He/it came to say itself/themselves the Good Pasteur
who knows his/her/its sheep and give his/her/its life for
them. Pasteur of souls, with Jesus and for Jesus, the apostle
must experiment the winter of the souls that not seeing that
they advance believe that they don't advance, and are tempted
to say, as the Jews: << How long you go to make us languish?
>> Jn., 10,24) and ask to Jesus to tell him what he/it
is clearly. << You want to know that I follow, answers
Jesus, look at my works>. In the gray days, look at Jesus'
works, through which his/her/its love, his/her/its Heart is
always visible and sensitive: << I made you see quantity
of good works coming of the Father >> (Jn., 10,32),
and << Know finally that the Father is in Me and Me
in the Father,... and Me in you and you in Me >>.
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Christ
is God's unique Work. Predestined of all eternity to be the
Head, the Chief of a Body to the multiple members, the angels
and the men who have been created for Him. He/it is in formation
and in growth until he/it reached his/its perfect stature.
All will be consumed then. The Christ will appear as <<
the sum >> of God's works. Already, dying on the cross,
Jesus contemplates this work as finished, and he exclaims:
<< All is consumed. The Christ will appear as <<
the to God is operated. << The Father pulled us to empire
of darkness and transferred us in kingdom of his/her/its beloved
Son, some that we have the redemption, the remission of the
sins >> (Collar., 1, 13-14); because << God liked
making live in in Him the whole Fullness >> (Collar.,
1,19). ö Father, give me to your Son, so that your Son gives
back me to You, so that I live in You and in Him during all
the eternity
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JESUS, WAY OF THE RETURN,
The
man's return to God consists in dying completely to himself,
to the inclinations, to the desires, to the aspirations of
the old proud man that look for his/her/its glory, of the
old sensual man who looks for his/her/its pleasure, of the
old lazy and gluttonous man who looks for his/her/its rest
and his/her/its consolation; and to more to like only God
only, to more to search for God's glory, his/her/its will,
what pleases to him, only. It is why the hour having come
for Jesus to return to the Father, It first dies on the cross,
to teach us to die to ourselves, to deserve us the grace of
it and to drag us in his/her/its death. This accomplished
death, he/it immediately returned to the Father. Jesus, constantly
apply me the merits of your painful Passion and your death
to kill in me the old man. Your Passion and the union to your
death are the unique path of the return the Father's. No,
I don't want to live more, but You, Jesus, only screw in me!
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JESUS, REVELATION OF The invisible,
The
Eucharist is the complete revelation of God's whole mystery,
the key of all created it, the revelation of the sense of
the universe. The Eucharist, God's substantial real Presence
under the appearances of Bread and Wine. God's Presence under
the appearances helps us to seize that God, Principle and
Life of all things is everywhere the real Present and in all
things. As well as in presence of the host, the faith, passing
the appearances, allows us to discover the God Living; so
the faith, science and wisdom of God, allow us to discover
God Present in all creature. Help me, Lord, to pass the appearances
always and to live << as if I always saw the invisible
>> (Héb., X!,27) under the veil of the creatures. To
the death, the veils and the appearances will fall and I will
see that << God is in us all and in each >>, that
he has there that God and that the whole remains is like nothing,
because everything that he is, him the East by God. Marie,
who always contemplated the invisible, help me to live in
the invisible
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<<
The Following day, to their exit of Béthanie, Jesus was hungry.
Seeing a fig-tree covered with leaves from afar, he/it tells
to him: << That never again no one eats your fruits
>>. I know, Lord, that your gesture includes multiple
significances. But the main is the one that You indicate Yourself:
You can all and to the one that believes in You, everything
for that he/it asks is granted to him. You can, Lord, of one
only of your looks, of only one speech, to dry until the root
the whole source of the sin that is in me, and to make of
this fig-tree, the fomes peccati, the concupiscence, that
product only of the pride fruits, foliage, of the sensuality
fruits, is annihilated in me. Pass, Jesus, in this holy Monday,
and that to your speech this fig-tree dries up at once, and
doesn't produce fruit of sin and death more ever: <<
They turn that the fig-tree was dried until the root >>
(Mc., 11, 20). Jesus, that I cannot sin more ever.
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JESUS, WINNER,
<<
I am Jesus that you persecute. You stop me from living in
you my life, by your sins and spots of all sorts; you stop
me from serving me of you to save the souls! He/it is hard
for you to jib against the sting: You waste your time. My
grace will overcome you. Raise you and hold you up. Because
has why I follow you appeared: to establish you servant and
witness of the vision in which you have just seen myself (in
my members) and of those where I will appear again to you.
It is for it that I will deliver you of the people and the
pagan nations.... (Act., 26,16-17). Oh Jesus, that I constantly
persecute, have mercy of me. Convert me, that your almighty
grace pulls me to my passions, to my me pagan and wild that
looks for always to kill You in me. Say therefore finally
for me this efficient speech: << Raise you and hold
you up >>.
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JESUS, IN ME,
Jesus,
You are not out of me, far from me. You are in me. You live
in me. It is not so I that live, It is You that are I and
that live in me. << I take care of the present Christ
in me, I make it eat, I make it walk, I make it rest so that
later, in me, he/it can restart to run after the souls...
It is not you that of a tip of the day to the other are thrown
in full action: It is the Christ, your Christ to you, as he/it
is in you. Deliver you to the Christ in you.. (P. Peyriguère,
Written sp.p.21,22). Jesus, I follow well far again to taste
and to savor these truths. Make me this grace of one so big
price to remember me constantly that it is You that pray,
that work, that fight, that suffer in me. Jesus, I give myself
all to You. Only screw in me. My misery, it is to be I and
no You. Make therefore, Jesus, that I die to myself and that
You live in me! That I stop being I and that I become You.
Sermon, sign, forgives by me! Continue to glorify the Father
while living your life in me.
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SCREW IN ME
Jesus,
I am résolu,à some price that it is, to let live You your
life fully in me. That I am only << your appearances,
your cash >> under which You live your priest's life,
of victim, of savior. Link my me and that yours is finally
freed. Pray, adore, rent, like in me and by me! Speak, illuminate,
warm, in me and by me! Suffer, expiate, repair in me and
by me. Rayon in me and by me your goodness, your joy, your
mercy, your infinite charity for all men. Bring to the men,
in me and by me, your Salute; I want to let live You in
me and by me this mystery so beautiful of your terrestrial
life that You especially chose to relive in me: Your interminable
shoppings of city in city, from village to village, in search
of the souls! I don't want to choose, but to let go You
in me where You will want. I want to disappear so that You
only quick, work, suffer and acted in me and by me. Pull,
burn, consume what stops you from living alone and fully
in me. Jesus, my All! Deus propels and omnia!-
40 JESUS, REIGN
IN ME
Lord,
that your will is made in me: that I don't want anything
anymore something else that this manner of which You chose
to live in me and by me this particular aspect of your mystery.
When I wonder, Jesus, that You chose to live in me and by
me what constitutes your clean mystery of Sovereign Prêtre
and host and that You chose to live it in me in an unceasing
exercise of your ministerial functions, I stay disconcerted,
delighted at a time of your love for me and crushed at the
sight of my impenetrable misery. He/it seems me that a veil
comes to tear itself/themselves and that I see You, Jesus,
in me, Priest, Host, Apostle, active in me and by me, on
all roads of the world. As on the day of the Branches, You
went up indeed on a donkey, and worse than a donkey, a very
big sinner, a nothing. That the ugliness awful of my sins
doesn't veil the burst of your face anymore! Wash me, and
wash me again: I am so dirty! Jesus, Sun of justice and
holiness, that your burst veils me to the Father's eyes,
and to the eyes of the men, so that the Father and the men
only see You in me.
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JESUS ONLY
Oh
God, sovereign truth, illuminate me internally. Give me to
know, not only by the faith, but by the experimental knowledge,
the vanity dece world and the truth of the future world, the
eternity of one, the fast dream of the other; to taste and
to savor happiness to like You only. Give me, consequently,
not to want to be known and beloved of no one, if it is not
to the extent of the necessary to make like You of those and
those toward which You send to me. Lord, my God, I am annihilated
before You, I never have on to like You. Me I am liked myself!
I preferred nothing toyour being. I preferred rot to the holiness,
the shades to the clarity, the shame to beauty, Miserere mei,
Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam
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42 JESUS, I GIVE MYSELF TO YOU
Jesus
Lord, You achieved the most radical way that either the grant
that a creature can make to God of herself: your personality's
grant. You expressed many times this grant: << I don't
look for my glory, but the glory of the one that sent to me;
not my will, but her yours; I don't make anything of myself...
>> I feel a vague something in me that stops to give
me to You, to abandon me to You. Is not this because I believe
even capable of something, I hope again for something as coming
of me. Jesus, heal my madness. Give me the humility and the
wisdom of the truth. << So that he/it can be embodied,
it was necessary that Jesus was annihilated >>. (Ph.,
11,7). So that you reign and quick in me, Jesus, I must die
to myself. Mind of love, come in me. Burn, kill, annihilate
my selfishness.Receive, oh Father, the love of Jesus' Heart,
to replace my madness
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Jesus, I GIVE WAY TO YOU
Lord,
Jesus, my God. I get back entire between your hands, I give
way forever to You. I surrender and trust You, my light
and my truth. Illuminate my road and be my eternal light.
I believe in You! I believe in your Gospel! I believe in
your Church! I give way to You: I cannot run away myself.
Impossible to defeat the old man, to avoid the sin and to
live your life: Be my salute, my justification, my redemption,
my sanctification. I trust You, I confide in You, I hope
in You. I give way to You, my only Love! You only merits
to be liked. I throw myself in You, I want to live and to
die in You! I want to live eternally in You, Jesus, that
I like You! Also say me that You like me and that You don't
want to have separated ever of me. Jesus, I like You! I
get lost in You. Jesus, I abandon You all, all,: my past;
my works, my life,: In manus killed, commendo me. Hide me
in You, in your wounds, in your heart, from now on and for
the eternity
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Jesus, I LOSE MYSELF IN YOU
God's
eternal intention is the Christ Jésus. God wants that the
Christ is all in all, omnia in omnibus. It is for every
creature human about letting the Christ being what he/it
wanted to be in her. The me human, the clean will, the pride,
the personal ambition, the mind of property, the desire
to belong himself, to organize his/her/its life in his/her/its
way, prevents that reigns of Jesus in all and in each. These
struggles, these fights whose narration occupies one so
big place in the Saints Books, are Jesus' fights to seize
the man, of every man, in order to be some him, what it
wanted to be while creating it, in order to live in it a
part, an aspect of his/her/its mystery. To be faithful to
his/her/its vocation, to the duty of the moment, to lose
all will not to want anything that the kind of life that
Jesus chose for us, or better than he chose to live in us
and by us: such is the secret to get lost in Jesus and to
let live It in us
45
JESUS, COME
Jesus
Lord, true Light, give me to pass the shades, darkness and
the appearances to contemplate the invisible. Make me understand
that all the visible is only the envelope of the invisible,
that only the invisible account, and that << the face
of this world passes quickly >> (! Horn., 7,34). Make
me pass definitely in light: I know it, the judgment is
not to report in a vague future, it comes true from now
on, when the man escaping the pain, makes << his/her/its
works in God >> (Jn., 3,21) The one that believes
in the Christ and that likes his/her/its neighbor passed
already of darkness to light. SeigneurJésus increases, increase
my faith and my charity! Come, Mind-Saint, spill in me the
faith and the love.
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46 JESUS, RESURRECTION AND LIFE
Lord,
Jesus, my history amounts to my innumerable and continual
disloyalties to your grace! Since my childhood, You attracted
me to You. But, immediately, I began to resist your grace.
I wanted << to save my life >>, whereas it was
necessary to lose it. I measure the immensity of your mercy
better now. In spite of so much resistance, of rebuffs of
all sorts, of revolts against your divine vouloirs, You
offer me even each day your grace and your love! You had
dreamed to make of me a saint. Has in the evening, and my
house is empty and my grapevine didn't produce anything
and I am black of sins; and I died more than living. Jesus,
I believe You capable to revive the deaths! Jesus, I believe
You capable of creation! Open out in me your creative strengths
and your power of resurrection! Jesus, my All! To whom will
I go therefore in my distress, otherwise to You, merciful
love?
<<
Sacred-heart of Jesus, I adore You in the hypostasis of
the second Person of the Saint Trinité.Tout what belongs
to Jesus' person belongs to God and must be honored of
this unique and same cult that we return to Jesus. He/it
donned the human nature no as something detached of him,
but as his, merely, absolutely eternally, in order to
be, in the true reality of sound Me, shut in among nous.Coeur
of Jesus, I adore You like Jesus himself eternal Verb
in the human covered nature and lived pleinement.Tu are
the heart of the most perfect man, and You adoring, I
adore my God Incarnate, The Emmanuel. I adore You, as
structural a part of the Passion thanks to which I live,
because You have been bruised in the agony of the Garden
of Gethsémani and You made spring on earth through the
veins and the pores of skin your divine blood: You have
been emptied until the last drop of this blood on the
Cross and, after the mort,Tu were pierced by the spear
and poured the latest rests of this inestimable Treasure,
our Redemption. >> (Newman, meditations)
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HYMN OF THE HYMNS
How
can a sinner dare to speak of You, object of the complaisances
of the eternal Father and the admiration of the angelic
choirs and the saints of the sky? I liked You well late,
Jesus! You that liked me of all eternity, that gave to
me, since my entry in life, in the Saint Baptism, a love
kiss so ardent that he/it let in me an indelible trace,
accept this song of in the evening. I sing it the eyes
full of tears. My consolation is to think that maybe some
poor sinner arrived as me to the fall of life without
having known You nor nor beloved, to the echoes of my
voice éraillée repeating your so big and so soft name,
Jesus, will say You with me, as the thief of the Golgotha:
<< Remember you of me >> (Lc., 23,42). Capable
to speak of You, I will speak You to You to relieve my
heart so aching of You to have liked so little. <<
That Jesus kisses me of the kissings of his/her/its mouth
>> (1,1). How to make You this prayer if You had
not put it first on my lips? What astounding revelation
of your love! This is not not above all to satisfy your
impenetrable need with to like and to be liked that You
taught me to pray thus? Jesus! Jesus! Who are you therefore?
I
am the incarnate love, the love makes man. And the Christian,
it is the selfish man become capable to like. I now know
why You want that this astonishing and shattering prayer
constantly burns me the lips and, similar to a sword splits
me the heart and it yours in movements of love. Who would
not be as shattered to know that God's Only son, the splendor
of the Father and the burst of his/her/its glory, L57;Alpha
and l57;Oméga, the Principle and the End of all things,
order to a creature << all crotchet >>. (cant.,
1,4), to make him this prayer day and night. No, no one
knows how to like if it is not Jesus. Like, it give.
You wait for me this prayer, because You want eternal
desire to fill of your Presence my so empty and so poor
heart.
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<<
That Jesus gives me the kiss of his/her/its mouth >>
(1,1).
By
the science of the Writings and the survey of the theology,
I received some knowledge of You. But I am not able to some
anymore to read so many books, to listen to so many doctors.
Why am I myself so long delivered to all these inopportune
kissings of a science that add to my pain? Once these kissings
were sufficient to me: I didn't know the difference that
between the theoretical knowledge and the knowledge of the
love have; between the science of the man and the interior
illumination; enters the simple to see and the snack. My
God, in what darkness did I live? I studied the theology
and your divine Writings, but my life was hardly better
of it. Merciful Jesus, now give me the kiss of your mouth,
non unbaiser that one does from one to the other. That all
scientists are quiet. Speak alone inside of me. No, the
idea of The one that is his - over and so different from
all idea that the man can have some is not sufficient to
me anymore. It is You, Jesus, You in person that I want.
As Zachée, I want to see You, You, I want someone that gives
me the kiss of his/her/its own mouth and that pushes my
tired head on his/her/its heart where I can taste the rest
of the contemplation, beyond all concepts, the ideas, the
pictures. Jesus, I want You. I want with You a non written
alliance on the paper, but an alliance of love, sealed in
your blood and in mine. << That Jesus to kiss
me of the kissings of his/her/its mouth >> (1,1).
I am disturbed, Jesus, to dare to address You this
demand. But You already granted it long before that she/it
is born on my lips. My Baptism is your first kiss on my
soul. Similar to the one that your divinity gave to your
humanity at the time of the incarnation, this kiss let in
my soul a print so lasting that no of my disloyalties, no
of my treasons, none of my adulteries, was able never to
erase it. That day, You married me forever.
While
telling to You: << Cover me of the kissings of your
mouth >>, it is not especially a demand that I address
to You but a manner to remind me that You don't stop making
it, especially in my Communion to your Body and to your
Blood dechaque day. However, I want to retell it to you
also as prayer. I so often pulled myself to the kiss of
your love, I preferred You of the so vile and so ashamed
loves, I welcomed your kissings so abstractedly, that I
feel the need to tell You: << Merciful Jesus, continue,
please to like me, because without You me then not to live.
Like me again, always like me. Continue to cover me with
the kissings of your mouth: every speech of the writing,
every Host that I receive, every person that I meet, every
event is a kiss of your mouth. That each of these kissings
gets injured at the heart: << Vulnerasti horn meum
>> (Cant., 4.9).
<<
Your loves are more delicious than wine >> (1,1).
Wine
rejoices, fortify and intoxicate. But how much more the
contemplation and the assimilation of your love mystery
produce above in soul joy, strength and rapture all other
reality. Who can receive You of Marie's arms in his, when,
done God of God, light of light, become true man, did You
come to live among us, without feeling joy, strength and
rapture? Who can especially contemplate You covered of this
red dress, does the forehead gird on your crown of thorns,
the two hands and the two feet transfixed and the heart
split in two, without dying? If one doesn't die, it is that
You always let darkness hover on the mountain of the love
until the ninth hour, << tenebrae factae sunt per
totam terram usque in horam nonam >> (Mc., 15,33)
"What wine that your mysteries of love! Who drank this wine
won't have thirst more ever! That I drink this wine so,
that my inebriation is such, that more no one nor nothing
can ever wake up!
<<
Jesus, the aroma of your perfumes and charming >> (1,3).
Jesus,
let me breathe the charming aroma of your virtues for a long
time. You possess all virtues and they are in You to the state
perfects. Only the flower perfectly in full bloom can spill
a perfume... A simple button doesn't smell like anything. But
in You, the highest virtues are to the most perfect degree,
since the moment of your Incarnation. Also, you first have balmy
the soul of Marie of the perfume of your virtues, as soon as
she/it had begun to carry You in her. Jesus, all flowers of
our floors and their perfumes are there to make me know the
variety and the infinite sweetness of your exemplary life. That
I breathe this good odor in your Gospel and before the host,
my floor and my prairie. Because I must be also I, as You and
by You, for all my brothers, << the Christ's good odor;
Christi bonus odor Deio sumus >> (2. Horn., 2,15). Make
grow in me your virtues. I only have the germ of the virtues.
Don't I pass letting no trace of my passage; how done to embalm
the souls with virtues hatch? Merciful Jesus, ardent sun, shoots
your rays once again on the poor fallow floor of my soul!
<<
Jesus, your name is an oil that pours out itself; it is why
the girls like you >> (1,3).
Your
name, Jesus, means Savior, and your nickname, Christ, means
Anoints, the one on that lubricates it has been spilled for
the consecration. Yes, your name is of a balmy oil, non shut
in in the small bottle that contains it, but that flows abundantly
and wants to spill his/her/its exhalations everywhere. It is
of all men that You are the Savior and your Ministration is
universal and eternal. The writing has custom to represent the
nations under a girl's face (Is., 23,12; 37,22; Jr., 14,17).
Yes, all nations of the earth are called to your love and all
will be won little by little by the charms of your Jesus name,
be the Savior of all men. Attract us all to You, because without
You the world is lost. Be here below our priest and during all
the eternity, so that in You and by You, we are dived in the
unit of the Trinidad! Christ, my All! Infinite sweetness! My
unique hope of all Nations! How the one that likes You could
not he/it burn the desire to see your known and beloved name
by the whole earth?
<< The king made me enter in his/her/its
secret apartments >> (1,4)..
Jesus, You wanted indeed to make enter me in your intimacy;
You wanted to reveal me your secrets. Since my childhood,
You made me hear this call: I remember it very well. With
what infinite sweetness I heard your voice, since the awakening
of my reason, a thousand times. But I was then deaf
to your voice. In spite of qu You tempted everything to introduce
me in your intimacy, I preferred the intimacy of the creatures,
the natural activity, and, unhappy, I remained outside, to
amuse me to ghosts and to play with concepts. And You, always
only inside of me. You don't stop calling me to pull me to
the creatures, to the sensualities, to the earth to be going
to hide me in You. Healed my flightiness that makes me to
go toward You and to come back to the creatures. Healed my
madness to look for in T '' to like like an object of love
between several other: << No one can serve two masters>.
Since the door of your secret apartments I am always wide
open and that I am too stupid to enter there, make me there
enter and farm forever the door, behind me so that I cannot
leave from it anymore and than You only are the unique object
of my contemplation and my love. << I am black and
yet beautiful, girls of Jerusalem; as the tents of Qédar,
as the pavilions of Salma. Don't make sure with my tanned
complexion: it is the sun that burned me. My mother's sons
lost temper against me, they put me to keep the grapevines.
My grapevine to me.... I had not kept it >> (1,5-7).
Yes,
I am black: the temptation, the sin made their work in me. As
the tents of the nomads of Arabia, make in hair of goats, are
of black color, my lack of contemplation, my perpetual shoppings,
my natural activity, my preoccupation of one thousand business,
the care of the other blackened me. My grapevine to me, I didn't
keep it. But I remain precious to your eyes, because You purchased
me of your Blood. The hour arrived of the contemplation, of
the care of the heart, of life hidden in God: to keep my grapevine
and more to make it only. Otherwise I would have to give to
the others that of the green grapes. << Say me therefore,
You my heart likes: where you lead grazed your sheep, where
you make them to rest at the hour of noon >> (Cant., 1,7).
The Grazing of the sheep, it is You, Jesus,: your doctrine,
your life, your mysteries, your Eucharist. To know you, to like
You, to contemplate you in the gospel, in the Very Saint Sacrament;
to feed me your Speech, of You. << That I don't wander
anymore in vagabond close to the herds of your mates >>
(Cant., 1,7). Finished wandering. Even Jesus' friends is not
Jesus. Give me a pure heart that looks for You and want You
only.
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<<
If you ignore (where I live), follow the traces of the herd,
and lead grazed the kids close to the home of the shepherds
>> (1,8).
To
find You, You indicate me, Jesus, to follow the examples of the
saints and to listen to the voice of the one that You established
the Pasteur of the sheep. Others looked for You and found You,
they can indicate me the road. I will go to their school, I will
follow their traces. François, Jean of the Cross, Theresa, etc.,
found You: the way that they teach is sure. Especially the Pasteur
Supreme, Pierre, always living and guiding the herd, illuminate
like a sun of noon. The example and the doctrine of the saints
make grow the kids who eat some.
<<
To my escape, harnessed to Pharaoh's chariot, I compare
you, my beloved. Your cheeks are beautiful in the middle
of the necklaces. Your neck is beautiful in the middle of
the rows of pearls. We will make you counterparts of gold
and the globules of money >> (1,9-10).
Jesus, You want to decorate my soul of the divine charity
and the cortege of all virtues. Without the charity, my
face is without life; without strength, I bend the neck
before the passions; without wisdom, I don't hear anything
to your secret mysteries. You only, Jesus, can make me these
grants. Give me of the pink cheeks and flushed by the charity;
a hard and stiff neck before the idols; of the ears attentive
to your interior words, because him there a long time that
I long for to hear this word of You: << amica mea;
my friend >> to hear to tell me that You like me.
I have beautiful searched in my life; I don't see indeed
any friend. No, I don't have a friend. The place is empty,
come, Lord Jesus, come.
<<
While the king is at his couch, my nard exhales its perfume
>> (1,12
Your couch, Jesus, it is the bottom
of my soul where You are always, You are my principle: ego
principium. You are to my origin, as the sun is at the origin
of the rays. Cut of You, detached of You, I am not anymore.
And always You are there, non sleepy, but divinely active.
Everything that I follow, everything that I make comes of
what You are and always there to this couch to which You gave
to be and to act. And You wait that I constantly redo Madeleine's
gesture, that, breaking his/her/its vase, spilled on your
feet a perfume of big price with a lot of tears. Of the tears,
of the unceasing tears to have You so much and offended so
much, of You to have liked so little, to have lived in egoist
far from You, shut in in the stupid pride and the sufficiency!
Of the tears to the memory of all my blindness, of all my
treasons, of my self-esteem luciférien! Of the tears to the
thought of your despised love, rejected, unrecognized. It
is the only nard that remains to me; that he/it flows in flotsintarissables
of my broken heart.
<<
Jesus, my Beloved, You are for me a sachet of myrrh and a cluster
of cypress of the grapevines of Engaddi> (1,13-14).
Your very painful Passion lived with so
much love, there is the sachet of myrrh that You give me to
breathe constantly and that discovers me the immensity of your
love. Grind like a cluster of grape, all your blood came out
of your body; You filled every day my chalice! Oh love! Oh love!
Hostia pro Hostia: host for Host; blood for blood. That I welcome
all cross, all suffering, all work like a means to return You
love for love. <<
That you are beautiful, my beloved, that you are belle!Tes eyes
are as eyes of doves> (1,15). When, Jesus, will you be able
to make me hear these words? To know that his/her/its life is
pleasing to God: what can a man want besides here below? It
is the purity of intention and no the works, the purity of the
interior look, the purity of the love that returns the beautiful
soul to your eyes. << Cormundum created in me, Deus; Lord,
make me a new heart >>, You, that, every year, after the
hard winters, make of new springs. Straighten my oblique eyes
and give me of the eyes of doves, simple and right.
<<
In my inside, I looked for the one that my heart likes, I looked
for it and I didn't find it, let's Raise ourselves, I am I say,
let's make the tour of the city, let's browse the streets and
the places, let's look for the one that my heart likes. I looked
for it and I didn't find it. The guards that make the round
in the city met me. Did you see the one that my heart likes?..
>> (III,1-3)
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A
lot of times, me then to find You, Jesus, nor inside nor in
the books and the works. But You are not indifferent, far from
there, to what I continue to look for You then nevertheless.
In these black nights that appear sometimes to finish never,
keep me, Jesus, the gloomy sadness, the spite, the despair,.
He/it is so necessary to me to cry and to moan, to expiate and
to die to all. Grant me, Jesus, the grace to persevere in the
research of your love until the death, because << the
one that looks for finds >> (Lc., XI,9). It is the hope
qu I want to keep at the heart until the end. << I had
them hardly out of date, that I found the one that my heart
likes. I seized it and I won't let it go >> (III,4)
So
much ineffective time in false roads that don't succeed to anything.
The intellectualisme is one of these false roads. It is necessary
to hurry to pass the books of the men, then one finds the Book
of life, Jesus, one seizes it, one holds it, there to the bottom
of the heart, in this interior house, this temple, this tabernacle,
this Jerusalem that he/it built himself, where he/it lives,
and where he/it attracts us. << I implore of it to you,
girls of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and the doe of the fields,
don't wake up, don't wake the beloved up, before she/it wants
it. What is this one that brings up the desert, like a column
of smoke, exhaling the myrrh and the incense, all aromatics
of the parfumeur?>>(III,5-6)
The
Lord has an infinite respect of the liberty. He/it didn't want
to come me out of my long sleep << without I want it >>.
He/it was content with waiting. Oh! the long waiting! Jesus,
how were you able to support it? And now, I happen to You of
the desert, having experimented the nothing of everything that
is not You. I happen to You poor and empty. I lost everything,
I am not anything, me then nothing, I don't have anything. I
needed this long ride in the desert of the creatures, to discover
the only real securities of the earth,: poverty, work, humiliations,
solitude, prayer, forms it << column of myrrh and incense>..
that brings up until You, like a perfume, the only one that
pleases to You. << has Salomon's litter, with an escort
of sixty brave among the brave of Israel. They are all clever
to handle the sword, experienced to the fight; each carries
the sword to the flank, in forecasting of the nocturnal surprises.
>> (III,7-8)
To
the tired man who comes to Him, the merciful and more magnificent
Christ than Salomon always presents the litter of his/her/its
holy Humanity present to the Tabernacle. There is the place
of my rest, Jesus to the Saint Sacrament. There, I would be
in security. Jesus-Host is alone more and better than sixty
armed warriors until the teeth. Happy the one that Jesus attracts
to the Eucharist. Oh sweetness, oh joy, oh serene strength of
life! Jesus-Host, my God and my All! Oh sun of the nights! Oh
faithful defender! Oh whiteness that makes white! Oh support
of my weakness! Oh Bread! Oh Life!
<<
King Salomon made himself/itself a pavilion made of wood of
Lebanon. He/it made the columns of money, the file of gold,
the seat of purple all embroidered, work of love of the girls
of Jerusalem. Leave, girls of Zion, and see king Salomon with
the crown of which his/her/its mother crowned it, the day
of his/her/its nuptials, the day of the joy of his/her/its
heart >> (III,9-10)Le king Salomon, it is the Verb,
He made himself/itself a litter when, by the operation of
the Holy spirit, he shaped his/its a lot of Saint drawn Humanity,
like an incorruptible cedar of Lebanon, the Immaculate Virgin.
The columns of money are the members consecrated of Jesus;
the file of gold is his/her/its sacred Heart; the seat of
purple is l57;effusion of his/her/its precious Blood; his/her/its
diadem is his/her/its crown of thorns. Who would not be upset
until the bottom of the soul to know that he/it is called
to marry this King of love, by the contemplation and the love
unifying and transforming!.. The Good Friday was, Jesus, <<
The day of the joy of your Heart >>, where You testified
us your big love and since, thanks to your ineffable Eucharist,
memorial of your Passion and all your mystery, every day,
until the last is like only one day, the day of the joy of
your Heart that gives itself, and the anticipation of it <<
day of the eternity >>. Keep me in your Heart and in
the caves of your wounds; deposits on my head your crown of
thorns, in the waiting of the day of our common joy.
<<
Yes, you are beautiful, my friend, yes, you are beautiful.
Your eyes are eyes of doves behind your veil. Your hair is
like a herd of goats suspended to the flanks of the mountain
of Gallaad. Your teeth are like a herd of sheep shorn and
that carry up the washer: each carries two twins; no of them
is not sterile. Your lips are like a thread of purple, and
your mouth is charming. Your cheek is like a half of pomegranate
behind your veil. Your neck is as the tower of David built
to act as arsenal. One thousand shields are suspended there,
all shields of the brave. Your two breasts are like two twins
of gazelle, who graze in the middle of the lilies. >>
(IV,1-5) with the help of these infinitely rich symbols. You
tell to me, Jesus, what I must be to please you, and to what
conditions me then to become beautiful and pleasant to your
eyes. You want me a total purity of intention, of the dove
eyes; of the thoughts that spring toward You with the impetus
of the goats of mountains; of the white teeth, that means
words always full of charity; of the cheeks, a perfect modesty;
a neck, that means a right conscience as David's tower; of
the breasts that feed, that means a devouring goodwill of
the salute of the souls. There is the one that You like. Jesus,
make that I am what You want that I am. what other that You
are able to make I such? I didn't succeed there ever and I
won't succeed there ever. Operate in me what You require me
and require me what your merciful omnipotence will have operated
in me then. << before comes the freshness of the day
and that the shades flee, I will go to the mountain of the
myrrh and the hill of the encens.>>(IV,6)
So
that You operate in me what You want to operate there, I will
go every day of my life << to the mountain of the myrrh
and to the hill of the incense >>. I will go to Mount
Calvary and the Saint Tabernacle. I will be going to contemplate
You in your extinctions, to eat your very holy Body and to
drink your divine Blood, to the altar where You give to eat
and to drink, until the day of the blissful eternity begins
to dawn and that the shades and the obscurities of the present
life disappear. I will be going to water your sacred feet
of my tears, to tell You humble and confused my immense misery
and to offer my soul and all my faculties to your holy operations.
Make, Lord Jesus, that at less to the term of my life, I can
hear to tell me to You what follows: << You are all
beautiful, my friend, and don't have a stain there in you,
Come with me to Lebanon, my fiancée, come with me to Lebanon!
Look at the summit of the Amana, of the summit of the Sanir
and The Hermon, of the lairs of the lions of the mountains
that the leopards live in. You delighted me the heart by one
only of your looks, by one only of your hair. That your love
has charms, that your love is delectable. He/it is better
than wine; the odor of your perfumes is better than all aromatics.
Your lips distill the honey; the honey and milk hide under
your language and the odor of your clothes is as the odor
of Lebanon. It is a garden that my wife, a closed source,
a fountain under seal. A grove where grows the pomegranate
trees with the most charming fruits, the cypress with the
nard and the saffron, the cinnamon and the cinnamome with
all trees that give the incense, the myrrh and aloe and all
balmy plants. A fountain in a garden, a source of quick waters.
A stream that flows from Lebanon. >> (IV,7-16)
You
want myself, Jesus, decorated with all virtues and all grants
of the Holy spirit for the mystical wedding of the sky. Who
will understand until what point he/it is liked of You and
to what resemblance with You want to be to drive it? Since,
Jesus, You burn for me of such a love, dissipate my darkness,
open my dry heart to your love, plow this earth that pushed
the brambles and the thorns of your crown up to here only.
You that are the Resurrection and Life, have mercy of me.
It is getting late and already the day lowers. Remain with
me, Jesus. I am afraid. I am empty. I am so far from what
You want that I am. Before << blows the aquilon of the
death, breath on my garden and his/her/its perfumes exhales
themselves >>, so that I can tell You, while dying:
<< That I am eternally a praise of glory to your merciful
love! << I entered in my garden, my sister. I collect
my myrrh and my balm. I eat the ray and the honey. I drink
my wine and my milk. Eat my friends, and drink; rejoice yourselves,
my bien-aîmés >> V,1-2
Jesus,
enter at home; I am your garden. Come to pick the myrrh and
the balm of all my small sacrifices, of my acts of love, of
my service happy of your members, there. I want to make of
my life an uninterrupted love act that either an answer to
your love. Come, << eats the ray and the honey>,
that your love and the love of the souls consume me; receive
the grant of my whole liberty of myself and my works: opera,
Governed mea! Come, Jesus, to sit You at my table, <<
to drink wine and milk> to You, my pains, my tears, my
fatigues, my disgusts, my labors; to You, my joys, my songs,
my transportation, my enthusiasms,. To you especially the
fruits of my apostolate; come, eat and wood with your friends,
all those that I could help to know You and to like You; all
those that by my apostolate I wanted to drive to You. <<
I slept, but my heart stayed up. I hear my Beloved that hits:
open me, my friend, my dove, my immaculate; because my head
is covered with dew, the buckles of my hair are soaked of
the drops of the night. Did I remove my tunic, how do want
you that me to put back it? Did I wash my feet, how will I
mess up them? (V.2-4)
Jesus,
You pulled me from my long sleep, because I never stopped
liking You. Plunge me in another sleep: make I deaf and sleepy
to all noises of the earth, to the events, to make them various,
to the agitations of the men, to the impressions of the senses;
stops the ravings of my mind and my heart. Open my ears and
my heart to hear the whisper of your voice constantly. You
are held at the door of my liberty. Rejected of so many hearts.
You are the beggar that one lets chilled outside of cold weather.
And yet, You are not able to some anymore to walk. No, Jesus,
don't take your tunic, nor your sandals: between my home and
come to take a rest in me. I will walk for You in search of
the souls, I will lie down to the dew of in the evening to
wait for them. I will constantly knock at their door. I will
tell them happy how much the one that receives You and some
that You take your rest; how much sweet is your friendship
and sunny life with You!! << My Beloved passed the hand
by the opening of the door. I rose to open to my Beloved and
my hands dripped the myrrh, of my fingers the myrrh spilled
on the handful of the bolt. I open to my Beloved, but my Beloved
had disappeared, he/it had fled. I looked for It and He/it
didn't answer me>. (V,4-6)
To
keep you in me, Jesus, I need the myrrh of an unceasing mortification
of the eyes, of the ears, the memory, the mind, will,. Jesus,
it is all normal, wants to be liked alone. On earth, to like
Jesus, it suffer. Because all other love must be rejected.
Otherwise, Jesus << striking to the door >>, himself,
in person, it is necessary to let of side all our customary
devotions: books, rosaries, pictures, vocal, convenient prayers.
It is necessary to suppress all intermediate. When he/it presents
himself/itself himself in person, let's not go oppose him
of the walls, of the doors, the latches, the particular devotions,
the manners,. Marie and Joseph practiced this direct trade
with Jesus: oh masters of interior life, lower your looks
on quite the small that I am, that doesn't know to speak to
Jesus. << The guards that make the round in the city
met me. They have me frappée,ils wounded me. They removed
me my veil, the guards of the battlements >> (V.7) It
is understandably that I had, like all those that want to
be Yours, to suffer somewhat of the events and men. Thus,
one helped me big while pulling me this long veil of self-esteem,
of pride, of sufficiency, in which, often unconsciously, I
wrapped. I don't have at all envies to pity me. I would have
is even, he/it seems me __ new illusion, maybe of a bigger
oblivion, if, forgotten of all, I could draw your attentions;
I would be thirsty of more than solitude, of a bigger emptiness
around me, if, to this price, I could live better with You.
But make what You will want, so long as I never separated
of You.
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<<
Do I implore of it, girls of Jerusalem, to you if you find my
Beloved, tell to him that I languish of love! Some what your
Beloved distinguishes itself him of another so that you adjure
us of the sort? (V,8)Non, no one knows You, Jesus, if it is
not the Father and the Holy spirit. To whom to ask for Jesus'
science otherwise to Jesus himself, to his/her/its Father, to
the Holy spirit? He/it doesn't lack some masters to teach the
arts, the sciences, philosophy, the theology. But no one that
can teach Jesus if it is not Jesus himself, Adieu to all sciences
of this world. I don't want knowledge that Jesus and Jesus crucified
anymore. To know Jesus, it is necessary to let all books and
more keep this unique Book only: Jesus. Because it is of Jesus
that he/it is question of the first to the last page of the
Bible. The Book, the Crucifix, the Tabernacle,: and that is
sufficient! One only and same book, in blue, red and golden
characters,: The bruise-hope of the former Will; the red of
the New Alliance sealed in Blood; and the pure gold of Eucharist.
<<
My Beloved is cool and vermilion; he/it distinguishes himself/itself
between one thousand. His/her/its head is gold and the pure
gold. His/her/its buckles are black as the raven. His/her/its
eyes are as doves on the side of waters that, washed in milk,
land on the strand. His/her/its cheeks are like floors of balsam
trees, of the massifs, of smelling plants; his/her/its lips
are the lilies that distill a charming myrrh. His/her/its arms
are cylinders of gold, decorate stones. His/her/its arms are
cylinders of gold, decorate stones of Tharsis. His/her/its chest
is a mass of covered ivory of sapphires. His/her/its legs are
columns of calm alabasters on bases of gold; l57;aspect is the
one of the trees of Lebanon, it is superb as the cedars. His/her/its
speech is the very suavity and all his/her/its no one is that
charm. Such is my Beloved, such my spouse, girls of Jerusalem
>> (V,10-16)
Since
You wanted to give me such a portrait of Yourself, incomparable
Jesus, let me contemplate you for a long time under his/her/its
admirable symbols, while waiting to see You in the sky
Jesus, You are all << white and vermilion >> white
by the infinite holiness of your being and your life; vermilion
on the day of your Passion, all gory; white in the Very Saint
Sacrament, and vermilion under the cash of the vin.Tu are distinct
of all. You are unique: in You only the human nature and the
divine nature are united in the unique Person of the Verb. No,
him there has had of it no other as You. As no one is agreeable
as You. Well more, God and man, You are the synthesis of created
quite and of the incréé. While liking You, one likes everything
that deserves to be liked. Your head is gold and the pure gold.
Jesus' head, it is his/her/its divine nature: Caput Christi
Deus (! . Horn., IX,3) Above all, You are God: to the beginning
the Verb was and the Verb was God. Let me contemplate your head
of gold, your visible returned divinity in your human head.
Jesus! Jesus: infinite beauty! Saint Face of Jesus, through
which me then to contemplate God's Face!
Your
hair is gracious as the branches of the palms and blacks as
the feather of the ravens. Your divine perfections are infinite:
similar to the branches of the palm that detach themselves of
it and fall again of all sides while spreading out gorgeously,
All in You is only perfection. But your perfections are so infinite
that they remain especially crotchets, dark and impenetrable
to the human mind, when I contemplate You on the cross where
You appear like a sinner, a villain; when I contemplate you
in the host where they are as veiled under bread!... Your eyes
are as doves, on the side of waters, or like outlays of a milky
bath, the eyes are the mirror of the soul. Who will say the
purity, the simplicity, the clarity of your very holy soul?
What symbol could express the total whiteness of your immaculate
soul better? soul of Jesus, sanctify me! Your cheeks, all covered
of blood that sink your horrible crown of one thousand thorns,
are like floors of balsam trees, of the massifs of smelling
plants,: every drop of this blood makes to germinate and to
grow in the souls the one thousand flowers of the most smelling
virtues and can heal all injuries of the world.
Your
lips are the lilies that distill a charming myrrh. Your lips
only utter the pure truth... No one spoke as You. Every speech
of your Gospel of light and love possesses the clarity and the
perfume of the lilies. But your speech is often austere to the
nature, because your lips teach the doctrine of the cross; but
this doctrine of the cross becomes a charming myrrh to the one
that likes You and wants to share your peine.Tes arm are cylinders
of gold, decorate stones of Tharsis.Tes arm and your hands,
with which You blessed the small children, returned the view
to the blinds, touched and healed the patients and the lepers,
resuscitated the deaths, pacified the storms, multiplied breads,
taken bread and wine to change them in your Body and his/her/its
Blood, to the last Last Supper, your extended arms on the cross
and your hands transfixed raising the whole world to attract
it to You and to the Father! That they are beautiful your so
pure and so red ministerial hands! Your scars shine eternally
as precious stones in your Body resuscitated, supreme hope of
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chest is a mass of covered ivory of sapphires.
Ivory
is vivid of whiteness and incorruptible. Such is your Heart,
Jesus, of an infinite purity and an absolute fidelity. The soldier's
spear opened it to all men who want to enter in << this
tower of ivory decorated with sapphires >>, safe from
all their enemies, in a place of rest and peace. Make me, Jesus,
to enter in your CSur, discover me your infinite love and the
treasure of your Saint Humanity. That shut in in this Heart
I fall asleep to all things that pass and don't be more awake
than to your love that doesn't pass. Your legs are of the pillars
of marble put on bases of gold. Eternal priest, always standing
bidder to the infinite Majesty, on the altar of the earth and
on the altar of the sky, the unique and perpetual Sacrifice
of love. Your aspect is the one of the trees of Lebanon, majestic
as the cedars.
Your ministration is eternal: You are sacerdos in aeternum!
But you are a cedar to the one thousand branches and You made
of us a << ministerial race >> (1.Pet., 11,5), associating
us on the earth and in the sky to your unique ministration.
Such is the sublime Liturgy of the earth and the sky! Such is
the last end of all things and the eternal life! Yes, indeed,
Jesus, << your speech, revealing us all your mystery,
is full of suavity and You are a Beloved and a spouse to no
one else similar >> (V,16)
<<
Where went your Beloved? What direction did your Beloved take?
that we looked for it with you >> (V,17) Alas! your beauties,
your sizes, your love disappears quickly to my eyes! Hardly
have them I glimpsed that You hide them to my eyes, so that
I always look for You in the obscurity of the faith. But I know
that the night is the hour preferred of your visits. I want
to be a watcher and to stay in the waiting. Consolation and
desolation, devotion and aridity, ardor and languor: nothing
must appear better too laborious for You to know and You better
to like! << My Beloved descended to his/her/its garden,
to the floor of the balsam trees, for grazed his/her/its herd
in the gardens and to pick some lilies. My Beloved is mine and
I am his; he/it grazes his/its herd among the lilies >>
Jesus, come in me. Descend in your garden. Take possession completely
of it. How, after having known You, will I live for an another
one that for You? Graze the herd of all my thoughts, of all
my desires, of all my affections, of all my activities. Be the
absolute master of it. Thus, unified in your only and pure love,
I will be able to become again a lily. Emptied of all other
love, I will recover the purity of the love, Jesus, I deliver
myself to You. You only can make that my soul is << beautiful
to your eyes, as Thirsa, charming like Jerusalem, terrifying
like an army arranged in battle >> (V1,4), invulnerable
to the demon and to the passions. You only can make that my
<< hair >> (V1,5),en brushwoods, my disorganized
desires are centered on You. You only can make that <<
my teeth >> (V1,6), my activities are ordered to You by
the charity and << are not sterile >> and that <<
my face >> (V1,7), my manner to live looks like it yours.
Dish in me this perfection << perfecta >> (V1,8),
that I am impotent to acquire and that can come only of You.
You only can return my soul << similar to the dawn, beautiful
as the moon, vivid as the sun, imposing like a battalion >>
(V1,10). Of profundis clamavi ad You: of the bottom of my misery,
I shout toward You! Constantly cultivate your garden, make grow
in me the virtues, fortify me, because without You, I would
not know how to stay faithful (VI. ,11-12) << Go, my Beloved,
let's leave to the country, let's spend the night in the orchards.
Early, we will see if the grapevine buds, if the clusters of
flowers half-open themselves, if the pomegranate trees bloom.
The mandrakes exhaled their perfume, and we have to our doors
all sorts of charming fruits. The new fruits, as the old, my
Beloved, I hold them standby for You >> (V111.,11=13).
Jesus,
You made of me your apostle. Let's come together every day out
of big morning to work the grapevine, the beautiful grapevine
of your Church. Because that can say that he/it likes You if
he/it doesn't try to light the fire of your love in all hearts.
So the divine Hymn says in advance, with charming pictures,
what You had to retell us to the last evening of your life,:
<< I chose you so that you went, that you carried some
fruits and that your fruit stays>. (Jn., XIV,16). You want
that I am << a crater of wine and a heap of wheat >>
(Cant., V11,2). to water and to feed the men. Surtout,Tu put
me in the hands your Wine and your Wheat eucharistiques, so
that, feed this Wheat and inebriate of this Wine, the men become
your Bodies, You want that I take care of them << buds>.,
the small children and the sinners who hardly live your life;
You want that I cultivate these beautiful << grapevines
in bloom >>, the dedicated souls; You even confided me
the culture of them << pomegranate trees >>, your
priests, these flowers the most admirable and most charming
of the beautiful floor of your Church. Since the morning of
my ministerial life, the orchards and the grapevines didn't
miss to me. I want to remain to the service of your grapevine
until the last evening, to offer You every day of << new
fruits >> (Cant., V11,1-13). << What is the one
that brings up the desert pushed on his/her/its Beloved?>.
(V111,5) Make, Lord Jesus, that after this life, I go up to
the desert toward You. << Put me
like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm >>
(V11,6), so that I can never separate any more You and that
I stays eternally united to You << Because the love is
strong as the death, his/her/its jealousy is inflexible as the
stay of the deaths >> 9 V111,7); one doesn't pull him
more those that it keeps that one doesn't pull the deaths to
their stay. << His/her/its ardors are ardors of fire,
God's flame >> (V111,6);là, in the sky, the fire of the
divine love combined to transform me in You and to become with
You a praise of glory in the Trinidad. << The big waters>
of the temptations and tribulations << won't be able to
extinguish this fire anymore>. (V111,7). Faculty me audire
vocem tuam; make me hear your voice >> (V111,13), because
<< the hour comes where all those that are in the funerary
will hear the voice of the man's Son and those that will hear
it will live >> (Jn., V,25). When will come the hour of
the death and the parousie, make me hear your voice. Come to
look for me for a fast race << similar to the one of the
gazelle and the fawn of the doe>. (V111,14) to bring me with
You. << Father, those that You gave to me, I want that
where I am he/it is there so that they see the glory that You
gave to me, because You liked me before the constitution of
the world >> (Jn., XV11,24) Amen! Halleluja |
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