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“We know that the light of Jesus is always with us,” says Bishop Báez. “Like the man born blind, we allow ourselves continually to be enlightened by Jesus. We weren’t created to dwell in darkness.”
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On the morning of the second day of his retreat in Pontoise, Père Jacques stresses this point: “we must truly see Christ.” He continues that our knowledge of the Lord must be vital, not verbal: “we must strive to love Christ passionately and prepare to see him face to face, when we die.”
Brother Lawrence gives us a lesson in Easter faith when he writes, "What consoles me in this life is that I see God by faith..."
And if I rejoice, Lord, in the hope of seeing you, yet seeing I can lose you doubles my sorrow. Living in such fear and hoping as I hope, I die because I do not die.
“My mother, please take me with you!”
God is not inclined to work miracles
Is a vision like this conceivable without a personal, inner experience of God?
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity writes, “In the light of eternity the soul sees things as they really are.”
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Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. ~ St. Teresa of Avila
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