Embrace

Day's Saints
Bruno, Carthusian
Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

Gospel Lk 10:13-16
Jesus said to them,
"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty deeds done in your midst
had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would long ago have repented,
sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
at the judgment than for you.
And as for you, Capernaum, 'Will you be exalted to heaven?
You will go down to the netherworld.'
Whoever listens to you listens to me.
Whoever rejects you rejects me.
And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

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There is no direction in which you
cannot see God. Let Him embrace
you from within, and see the light of heaven.

Reject sin and pleasure, not God. Listen for His Voice and rejoice that He asks you to participate in what He is creating, because the present reality is going away, and the everlasting reality is close at hand.

Do not shrink from criticism or God's rebuke, because He wishes to save you by His attention and not let you perish in indifference.

You who weep and are tender-hearted, rejoice that He cares for you so much as He does. Many will be redeemed, rescued from evil to stand in safety with God.

The road to salvation comes from loving God, and love of God comes from seeing all He endured on the cross for you. Do not shun the cross, or avoid even thinking about it, but realize how much grace He gives to those who take the time to consider His sufferings. We can comfort Him as He hangs on those pitiless nails, and give Him rest in our willingness to gaze upon His Face in the gloom of day. The day to come will be a day of glory which words cannot describe.

We do not see how great is His love and mercy towards us. Let Him open your heart and your mind to see in His light, and drink the intoxicating wine of His peace and joy. If He has placed you alone with Him and called your name in darkness, it is so He might attract you to His light in which you can see what is hidden now in the pitiful light of this world. A far better light is yours if you will let Him give it to you. We come to Him naked in ourselves, and He clothes us with the sun and fills us with a love that cannot disappoint.

Better it is, that we should be forgotten, forgetting the world ourselves in order to belong to God and to take part in unity in Him in which there is no sorrow but only love.