February 10
It is now time to admit it: we are miserable, because there is little we can practice well. But God in his goodness has compassion on us, it also indulge in that little, and accepts the preparation of our hearts. But what this preparation of our hearts? According to the word of God, God is infinitely greater than our heart, and it outperforms all other realities when, apart from worrying about himself, sets the service to be offered to God, that is, when you accept the commitment to serve God, to love, to love our neighbor, to observe the mortification of the senses external and internal, and other good purposes.During that time, our hearts are prepared and have their works to an eminent degree of Christian perfection. All this, my dear daughter, is not in any way commensurate with the greatness of God who is infinitely greater than all the universe, our capabilities, our external actions. An intelligence consider this greatness of God, his goodness and immense dignity, can not fail to offer great preparations.That this preparation to submit a mortified body without any rebellion, a focus on voluntary prayer without distraction, a very great sweetness to speak without bitterness, a humility without any sense of vanity. Behold, my dear, good preparations. It is true that some people do not see much larger preparations would be needed to serve God, but we must also find out who can perform them, because, as we prepare to implement them, it's easy to stop, seeing that in us these perfections can not be neither so high nor so absolute.You can mortify the flesh, but not quite, because there will always be a rebellion. Our attention is often interrupted by distractions. But above all this, do agree restless, troubled, worried and grieving? Not at all.
March 3, 1917, Herminia Gargani - Letters. III, p. 678)
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